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Siss

13/5/2021 at 4:18pm
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I’m new to this but loads advertised are too good to be true. For example on FB, Sterling Eccles 2011 six berth for £3000. Seller info changes all the time. Why can’t something be done?

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Quote: Originally posted by Siss on 13/5/2021
I’m new to this but loads advertised are too good to be true. For example on FB, Sterling Eccles 2011 six berth for £3000. Seller info changes all the time. Why can’t something be done?

Probably way too many, and it would be proving its not legit. FB arent really bothered about scammers anyway.

There must be a never-ending supply of gullible punters though, otherwise the scammers would stop themselves.

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Quote: Originally posted by Siss on 13/5/2021
I’m new to this but loads advertised are too good to be true. For example on FB, Sterling Eccles 2011 six berth for £3000. Seller info changes all the time. Why can’t something be done?

It's a nightmare, Ebay is just as bad

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Usual scam to try to get buyers to pay before seeing caravan. The scam eBay listings are easy to spot. Email for contact & no location of item except ‘UK’. Often the whole first page of caravan listings are obvious scams from same crook. They spam eBay with so many fake listings at same time it makes looking for caravans difficult even if the scams are obvious.

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Quote: Originally posted by billy on 13/5/2021
Usual scam to try to get buyers to pay before seeing caravan. The scam eBay listings are easy to spot. Email for contact & no location of item except ‘UK’. Often the whole first page of caravan listings are obvious scams from same crook. They spam eBay with so many fake listings at same time it makes looking for caravans difficult even if the scams are obvious.

Always beats me that anyone would buy a caravan, or even put a deposit on one without seeing it. When I buy a caravan or a car, or anything of that sort of size, I want to crawl all over it before I will even consider it. No way I would even think of paying anything until I'd had a good poke and prod around. If I saw a caravan advertised for sale but I wasn't welcome to go and see it, I'd immediately cross it off my list however good it looked.

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Same here, Colin21. Every time I read about someone being scammed out of a lot of money, it seems to originate from either ebay or FB and bought just from looking at photos. I really can't get my head round that - paying thousands (and even "only" £4000 or £5000) is a serious amount of money. I may be old-fashioned, but before I part with any money for a caravan, I'd want to see it in the flesh so to speak. If that's not possible then that's decidedly dodgy and I'd walk away.

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Quote: Originally posted by Ina on 13/5/2021
Same here, Colin21. Every time I read about someone being scammed out of a lot of money, it seems to originate from either ebay or FB and bought just from looking at photos. I really can't get my head round that - paying thousands (and even "only" £4000 or £5000) is a serious amount of money. I may be old-fashioned, but before I part with any money for a caravan, I'd want to see it in the flesh so to speak. If that's not possible then that's decidedly dodgy and I'd walk away.

We are definitely on the same page there Ina. Our previous caravan we bought off ebay. It cost us the princely sum of £500. Yes that is only two noughts not three. But, before I parted with a single penny I went and gave it a thorough examination. How anyone can part with a 5 or even 6 figure sum without even first touching what they are buying just beggars belief! I would have immediately walked away if I had been told I couldn't go and see it, for whatever reason.

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Totally agree. But I sometimes wonder about the banks. Back in 2019 when we were booking our trip to NZ, I had to transfer some money to pay for the motorhome hire. I got a phone call from the bank asking me what this money was for. I told them what was happening and they made there own checks before allowing the money through. Well done, I say for protecting my cash.

Personally, I am trying to sell an ebike, but quite determined not to use ebay because of the dangers and I have no intention of paying quite a large sum of money to ebay out of the proceeds. Much better to try to sell locally for less.

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Tbf eBay is what you make it & it does reach a large audience. If you advertise your bike on eBay as buyer collects & pays cash you cannot really go wrong. It is no different from putting a card in your local newspaper shop. You will get messages with derisory offers but par for course & even with eBay fees you will probably get a better price than just advertising locally.

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