ap1dc5

hi
anyone know about this car?
its too good to be true, but i send an email to the seller!
waiting for reply!


http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...=&cardist=2286

4matic

what the heck...

apdesign

It's probably a scam. He mentioned not to email him at the address he provided to autotrader.com and did not even listed his number. There were several other CLS for around the same price on autotrader.com and it also said not to email them at the email address provided to autotrader.com

Improviz

That's affirmative....started seeing this scam a few months ago, always with some variation on "don't email me at Autotrader's email, use this one", always at prices that they could beat by 20 grand easily by taking the car to Carmax.

What pisses me off is that even when you email autotrader about these scams, they don't take them down. Cars.com is much better about keeping this crud off their site. It is rampant on autotrader, particularly in the Mercedes (and probably the BMW as well, but I honestly don't look there very much ).

Another one on there turned out to be a leased car that the owner was deceptively trying to pass off as a sale by stating "assume my note", making no mention of the fact that the vehicle was leased...and again, when I emailed autotrader about it, they didn't remove the ad.

Bottom line is, if someone's trying to sell a premium automobile at five digits below its wholesale price, it's either a scam, or a salvage/weld job, flood car, etc...

James@ACG

I believe we saw the same vehicle on craigslist yesterday, CLS55 for 20k when we called to inspect he stated the car was sold. So i'd guess this is complete BS and a scam.

ap1dc5

why are people doing this?
are they expecting people to pay him with "western union" or paypal without inspecting the car at first?

this is just man! to the one trying to scam: you are FAIL!

Dogshine

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache...ient=firefox-a

guess he had a bmw as well....

same email, one in redondo beach and one in palm springs.

$ickAMG

It's a definite scam! He stole those pictures from park place motorcars in forth worth. I saw that exact car in person in fort worth and remember those pictures from their site. It was still available at the dealership less than a month ago. They were asking 66k. Exact same car.

newguycls55

Actually I have heard of these scam recently, Seller post a price that is extremely cheap and ask the buyer to quickly go and put a downpayment to hold the car. He gives you a address or a location that you will travel to, but they will have someone rob you before you get there with your cash deposit. it was actually on the news several months ago....

people travel far these days for a good deal, imgaine if you are coming from a different location or area, even state, you would never expect to get gun point and ask to give up your cash deposit.

Mathmik

DAMN! thats just straight up wrong!! I hope they get a piece of there own medicine!!!

BlackDiamond

SCAM....

SSSSE YA

Like they always say if it looks to good to be true it properly is.

isellpower

If the DOW drops another 2K that could end up being an average price.

Improviz

Yeah, bring a sniper or two along and light 'em up after the robbery....after a few times of that, I suspect the scam would disappear rather quickly.