Beware to all

[Morrisman]

Trust Dads always...we have been around the block when these scammers were still floating between their fathers legs

Old ex army guy I used to work with, when I was an apprentice in the 70's:

I was fighting in Baghdad when you were fighting in yer dads bag.

 

[Seadog]

Published in 1808.

 

[Erie Fred]

"The car is not for sale to you, time for you to vacate the property.
Good day sir"
Yabutt, I want to buy the car ?
"Time for you leave NOW"

it's much cheaper in the long run to refuse the sale.
If you did sell to those slimeys, they would be trying to get a warranty claim
or file a lawsuit a few weeks later.

 

[Stueeee]

I seem to remember there was a spate of this over Essex way not that long ago, reported here iirc.

Perhaps they're moving further afield?

Not sure if I reported it here at the time, but I had the self same thing from a bunch of East Blockies who turned up when I advertised my old daily driver. Unfortunately for them, I had checked all the levels the night before. So when I got a load of 'it's got a blown head gasket, needs hugely expensive repair etc.' bo**ocks from them, I told them that the coolant was perfectly clean last night, either buy the car or go away. They bought it, but when they had gone, I discovered that they had palmed £50 of the money back. I googled this scam a bit later, apparently it's quite common, and is known as the "Romanian oil trick"

 

[Robotstar5]

<snip> They bought it, but when they had gone, I discovered that they had palmed £50 of the money back. I googled this scam a bit later, apparently it's quite common, and is known as the "Romanian oil trick"

My sister worked behind the counter in a shop for a few years and she was good at counting money, if you gave her £100 in £10 notes she would count £110 or £120 back into your hand she was that fast.

 

[Bryan Williams]

Its a shame lets just say not of English origin.

Bloody Welsh

 

[Smallfry]

Published in 1808.

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That would make interesting reading. Do we in fact still have these categories of charlatans ?

 

[julianthegypsy]

I had the exact same scam tried on me selling an old vw Sharon. Bunch of people from a country beginning with R. Argued about everything, then suddenly there's oil in the header tank. I went mental and they piled into their van and legged it sharpish. Eventually sold it to an Albanian guy, who was dead straight with us.