Anyone sold car through offers-autotrader.com ?

mr wilks

Lifer
 Lancashire
Got our golf on autotrader & this morning received a text saying a trade buyer wanted the car & at a fixed price (£250 less than i have advertised )
just go to http://www.offers-autotrader.com/ & enter my offer number to accept
Looks ok until the part where they asked for £80 to initialise the sale process ? then the ways they want the fee paying ? then i smelt a rat :x
Or is it legit ?
 
Never heard of it, might be ok, but anything requires you to give money to them first before they give you some sounds wrong and dodgy!
 
Yeah well they won't be seeing any £80 of my money , did seem legitimate until the ways they want the fee paying


Visit your local shop displaying the PayPoint sign - to find yours click here
Ask for UKASH or print off a coupon here
Pay the shop keeper £80.00
The shop keeper will give you a voucher
Return to here and enter the 19 digit pin The pin s yeah then sit back & wait for nobody to turn up :roll: :cry: :thumbsup:
w4nk3rs :x
 
Just found this http://www.autotrader.co.uk/articles/2013/01/cars/safety-and-security-warning-3 on the AT webpage
wonder how many suckers fall for it ?
 
Bastards..surely autotrader can issue a take down notice to non legit websites that infringe on their name? Or does that work in the states only?


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Before I got to the bottom of the thread I took a look at their site. It's just another WBAC bunch of chancers at best and fraud at worst.

Autotrader can go to the domain authority and raise a dispute, but if it's registered outside of the UK it will be a PITA for them.

Nice shiny Zed on their homepage though...

EDIT - This from the ICANN page. Basically sue them and tell us the result. (Unless you're Apple etc)

All registrars must follow the the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (often referred to as the "UDRP"). Under the policy, most types of trademark-based domain-name disputes must be resolved by agreement, court action, or arbitration before a registrar will cancel, suspend, or transfer a domain name. Disputes alleged to arise from abusive registrations of domain names (for example, cybersquatting) may be addressed by expedited administrative proceedings that the holder of trademark rights initiates by filing a complaint with an approved dispute-resolution service provider.

To invoke the policy, a trademark owner should either (a) file a complaint in a court of proper jurisdiction against the domain-name holder (or where appropriate an in-rem action concerning the domain name) or (b) in cases of abusive registration submit a complaint to an approved dispute-resolution service provider (see below for a list and links).
 
Lucky to have your surrogate brothers & sisters on here.

This kinda scam has been going on for years as in the 80's i had someone who called up for a car I had advertised in Exchange&Mart offering a service to advertise it on lots of other places - sale easily guaranteed. Fortunately I refused to give out my credit card & sent a cheque by post - last I ever heard of it & cheque never got cashed.

If u need to move it, the best of the bad bunch is webuyanycar... expect to be knocked down, pretend to play the salesperson's game of being your best friend, spin a good yarn of you've just ended up with too many cars & one had to go & despite them saying the computer doesn't give any room for manoeuvre... it does if they take faults off. The more you chat & haggle especially if they see there's money in yr car, the better deal you get, though expect at least to be knocked 20-25% off their initial opening price, before bringing them back to reality - just do yr research on what the trade thinks it's worth beforehand & prove it.
 
ben g said:
I can't believe you even thought for a second that this was real :rofl:

Very plausible text message with link to website , just enter & number to access offer . website reads well enough , barely any difference in principal to WBAC.com
The siren went off when asked to pay the £80 to a local shopkeeper who would then give me another reference number :roll:
the scammers let themselves down there :oops:
 
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