Tourist, did you manage to sell it to the Swiss guy ? Thats a long journey to make in a car thats not running right and a very expensive one if it's to be transported.
Good luck with it anyway.
Way2go wrote:Tourist, did you manage to sell it to the Swiss guy ? Thats a long journey to make in a car thats not running right and a very expensive one if it's to be transported.
Good luck with it anyway.
After speaking to James earlier it sounds like the "swiss guy" is a scammer wanting him to cash a big cheque then pay him back less this that and the other and arrange the shipping. I may be being over cautious but haveing been nearly caught out myself this way I would run a mile and sell it to someone who will collect the car themselves and pay cash when they do. I would stick it back on ebay myself.
Roverman wrote:
After speaking to James earlier it sounds like the "swiss guy" is a scammer wanting him to cash a big cheque then pay him back less this that and the other and arrange the shipping.
Alarm bells should be ringing and red lights flashing at him on this one!
Tourist (James)
It's a 100% scam this guy/person does NOT live in Switzerland, he's sitting a internet cafe/bar in Nigeria or some $hite hole in Africa DO NOT give him ANY OF YOUR bank details I can smell BULL$HIT from 10,000 miles away ! There plenty of similar scamming/crap like this on on 'Autotrader' like this going off 24/7 (I'll give you some personal examples when I've got more time to post ) !
Once AGAIN DON'T go thro' this transaction it will end up in a complete SCAM
James, as RX says NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO AND EVEN NON THIS IS THE BIGGEST SCAM IN THE BOOK DON'T EVEN GO NEAR IT... and I don't apologise for shouting!
Mike
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90 BX TZD Auto lives in France. 93 BX TXD Estate having had Ken Newbolds magic wand waved over it. 98' Honda Deauville NTV650.. '86 Fiat Ducato Swift Kontiki Camper
It's fine I turned him down already. He contacted me, saying he'd heard from a friend that the car was for sale ... I could smell bullsh*t too believe me, that's why I kept stalling him.
Last chance to have this car before it goes on eBay minus rear head restraints as Boxwolf wants them.
My Cars: Historically, lots of BX hatches/estates in the 90s/00s - 16/19i/17td/19d Recent scruffy diesel n/a estate - "The Red Shed" - is no longer mine.
i think i better introduce myself, i used to be on here as the death wolf many a year ago, like 2001-2002, when we still used a very simple white forum software....
over the years i was on here i had a visa engined 14re on which i did a full repipe in kunifer from pleiades, new spheres, new rear arm bearings, overhauled the calipers, rebuilt the starter, plugs leads dizzy cap and arm new exhaust full length new octipus what what what...
anywyas eventually i got oldenough to get an mr2, and did, but I kept the bx, well did till some tikey bastard stole it and one of my mr2's
so in december i found myself with some time to kill and was looking for another bx, when i found out alan s had sadly departed but we are running bxagon in memorial of him.
thinking as highly of alan as i did i was determined to get hold of a suitable candidate for the event, and also as a daily driver, hence i needed a GOOD turbo diesel, which james and i must both have though his one was when we were bidding on it
for you see it was me who was the other bidder, who was astounded at how high the ante went on ebay and also thought every bid surely a couple of more quid will secure it...
and by the sounds of it it was my guardian angel who told me to walk away at 740 bid.
now i've been an active lurker on here and only registered to see about this particular car A to say sorry for upping the ante, and B to say fairs fair the boy might have sold you a lemon but he wasnt ringing the acution, and C whats the doing with it I havent followed the cars faults as its only this section i lurk in...
oh, nd most importantly D - im no where near as cash rich as i used to be in december pesky climate has meant i'm feeling the pinch now, so cant and wont offer 700+ for a car that now appears to be a plug, but i would be interested in offering a hundred or so dependant upon whats wrong with it
Formerly known on here as The Death Wolf many (howled at) moons ago....
DO NOT give him ANY OF YOUR bank details I can smell BULL$HIT from 10,000 miles away ! There plenty of similar scamming/crap like this on on 'Autotrader' like this going off 24/7 (I'll give you some personal examples when I've got more time to post ) !
thanks James
