Pre-Scam or is this for real? 2004 Prius under $5K

Let me make a clear point. When someone wants to offer a good deal (like a $5k Prius) they always offer first to friends or someone that would appreciate the deal. It only takes a little word of mouth to make an instant sale. To offer something like this to who answers the fastest on the internet is to learn a permanent lesson.

P.T. Barnum stated that a sucker is born every minute.
There is the old saying that a fool and his money are soon parted.

When you combine these together, do you know what you have......

A BUSINESS PLAN.

Like this one

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(newbipri @ Jul 30 2007, 08:38 PM) [snapback]487717[/snapback]</div>

I agree with everyone - this is probably a scam. An additional clue may just be in the picture you posted - the nice house in the background is probably financed by the scam and people taken for a ride

Don't be the next victim!

 

Since no one else brought it up, I will say that you cannot trust a CarFax Report at face value. It my alert you to a problem, but it also may not alert you to a Salvaged vehicle. If the vehicle is not officiatlly Totaled through an insurance company, it can be rebuilt and never recieve a Salvaged Title, so CarFax believers, be ware.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(newbipri @ Jul 30 2007, 09:30 PM) [snapback]487786[/snapback]</div>

You spotted the tell.

First, obviously not a native English speaker. That alone doesn't really prove anything. Could be a foreigner in the U.S. But no one in the U.S. would write 4300 USD. That's a dead giveaway to Europe or Asia. We write $4,300 or $4300. She doesn't have a "$" key. If she had written 4300,00 that also would be a giveaway. Sometimes in Europe they use a comma instead of a period for the decimal point before the cents.

Spelling: resonable, negociate.

Punctuation: 4300 USD and won;t.

Grammar: will leave town with my job.

Where did she say she lived? Did you offer to fly out there to test drive the car and then drive it back home? I imagine the reply would be amusing.

 

Yea, unless you can by the car face to face I wouldn't even consider it. If she really wants to sell it for $4300 then you should looks into flying out there to drive the car back.

 

Earlier this year, someone hacked into my eBay account and listed a pile of bogus stuff under my user name. They were all expensive items sold for a fraction of their true value and even the photos of the items were stolen from other listings. The common thread was a requirement to transfer money quickly outside of the eBay system and a user whose first language was not English.

I am certain that this Prius exists, but probably not in Nevada or anywhere else the scammer says, and the photos aren't theirs but stolen from another online listing. A quick way to check is to try to ask to view the item in person (since they don't have it, they'll give all sorts of excuses). I tried this approach on a suspect listing that was supposedly not far from me and you won't believe the lines they tried.

Run very fast in the opposite direction!!

Mike