addjunkie
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But its 4x4 and will tow really well……quite an ugly motor to be honest!
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Sold many things on Marketplace and luckily never had any trouble . Met some decent people too. Perhaps its the area we live , dont know. Might add that I never let them in the workshop though , asking for trouble I think.
I expect it is something to do with cookies, but my Facebook marketplace is showing loads of Dewalt gear for 67 or 68 quid on my feed. It is a good idea to check other items that the seller is offering. On one profile there were loads of attractive bits and pieces covering a variety of interests, presumably to snare as many people as possible.
but I reckon the more that get reported the better.Bobtail4x4
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its a tax on the greedy,
I never saw the appeal of a range rover until I hurt my back (or hurt it more anyway) and had a go in one
I used to get up in the morning not too bad... by the time I'd driven my car to work I was crippled
sitting upright really helps
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I agree, very comfortable only thing puts me off one is the bills when they go wrong, or the cost to buy one under warranty. Ive graduated from looking after these things my self to at least one under warranty! So any pick up with a 5 year warranty will do nicely thanks. If I want to spanner about I have a defender too!
Though my Mrs suggested the other day we should maybe have a leccy car and charge it on our holiday cottage supply, being more tax efficient.
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When I sold my Zephyr 1100 on Facebook last year a middle aged guy turned up with his wife, he had his riding gear, paid by bank transfer and said 'sometimes it takes 8 hours to go through'.....
Scam, I thought immediately, and I was girding my loins to tell him the bike doesn't leave until the money has arrived then.... but it popped up on my phone almost immediately.
A few years back there was some sort of scam where the buyer sent more money than the price actually was, for some reason or other, someone collected the car/bike and then they 'took back' the money from your bank. I never really understood how that worked, or even if it did. Nobody can just 'take' money from your back account, especially when I immediately move it into a saving account.....
Scam, I thought immediately, and I was girding my loins to tell him the bike doesn't leave until the money has arrived then.... but it popped up on my phone almost immediately.
A few years back there was some sort of scam where the buyer sent more money than the price actually was, for some reason or other, someone collected the car/bike and then they 'took back' the money from your bank. I never really understood how that worked, or even if it did. Nobody can just 'take' money from your back account, especially when I immediately move it into a saving account.....
A few years back there was some sort of scam where the buyer sent more money than the price actually was, for some reason or other, someone collected the car/bike and then they 'took back' the money from your bank. I never really understood how that worked, or even if it did. Nobody can just 'take' money from your back account, especially when I immediately move it into a saving account.....
By paying from a hacked/fraudulent account.
So scammer uses stolen money to pay you (for example using a stolen credit card or forged check to pay into an account and then immediately pay out from that account), you give them the bike/car, a short while later the bank reverses the transfer because it was fraud and your bank pulls the money back from your account.
Of course it goes without saying you should *NEVER* pay anyone back any "over payment", because then not only will you have lost the item, lost the money you were "paid" for it, you will also have lost the money you "refunded" them as well.
I got scammed last year buying a Diving dry suit.
Wasn’t a too good to be true deal.
Bloke seemed legit, good comms etc.
If you’re a diver, you trust other divers, you kind of have to, as you are effectively trusting each other with your life incase anything happens.
Turns out I wasn’t alone and he did a load of people over the same suit
Wasn’t a too good to be true deal.
Bloke seemed legit, good comms etc.
If you’re a diver, you trust other divers, you kind of have to, as you are effectively trusting each other with your life incase anything happens.
Turns out I wasn’t alone and he did a load of people over the same suit
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I was looking at a sthil hedge trimmer on Facebook the other day. There was a few pics of it and even a video of it running. It was a 2 hour drive away but he was offering to deliver by courier. I was about to contact him until I noticed an American electrical outlet on the wall in the background of one of the pics.
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The other common one is that they will show you a shot from their phone showing the money has been paid. Don't believe it until it shows as arrived on your phone.
I was stung like that at work
lass in the office who was supposed to be checking payments wasn't checking, 2 different customers...
one regular trade customer who 'transferred' £300 a time... he's trade so we have invoices and can work out how much he didn't pay, in the middle of taking him to court for £13,000
another regular customer, retail so we don't have any records of it... used to come in regularly and spend £140 every time, did a transfer, showed whoever served her the screen on her phone... checked up and she wasn't sending it... caught her the next time she came in and suddenly she only wanted £40 worth?
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I guess it's like all scams , it only takes a small % to fall for it and it's a winner. I bet some gullible person will send the money to ensure he gets the 'bargain'. If not ,on to the next scam.
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One is the escrow.....item is in the Shetland isles or somewhere remote, but will be transported free. Just put money into a bent escrow and say bye bye to it.
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They get reported but not taken down! click on the sellers name and up pops 10-20-30 more cars for sale but the background is different in each picture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was looking at apartments rentals, for my daughter, some woman reckons she had two, good price, need a deposit in advance as there is lots of interest blah blah.....
And then I saw American wall outlets in the pic....
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Bought from this seller. Would not hestitate to buy again. Top class.
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