saw my own car on autotrader

gally74

folks,

some help here, we were selling our car lately, had it on some sites etc.

this evening noticed that somebody else has it on autotrader?

any advice, too late to call autotrader,

p

challengemaster

Get the phone number that's with the autotrader ad and see who it is/what they're playing at.

vengeance52

gally74 wrote: »

folks,

some help here, we were selling our car lately, had it on some sites etc.

this evening noticed that somebody else has it on autotrader?

any advice, too late to call autotrader,

p

Contact autotrader and tell them, they will pull the ad down.

Guy:Incognito

challengemaster wrote: »

Get the phone number that's with the autotrader ad and see who it is/what they're playing at.

I'll go out on a limb and say theres just an email (one that is operated by a guy at a computer several hundred/thousand miles away)

gally74

there's an email and tel no, tel no is a northern no. tried to call it privately, didnt answer, will try off another no later,

im a bit worried thou, what if they ot a seller and decided to steal it?

ill call autotrader tomorrow.

vengeance52

its a scam. your car is safe. they use your pics,so if someone else does a HPI check on reg on the pic, it comes back clean.

gally74

thanks vengenance,

!

omb0wyn5ehpij9

IT's a scam. They are only using your picture. Get onto Autotrader and report it though, so that the ad will be removed

bazz26

There are alot of scams going on at the moment via autotrader, carzone and cbg where these scam merchants steal photos from geniune ads, have dodgy phone numbers (Seller based in Dublin but has a Cork number for example) and advertising cars considerably cheaper than the going rate.

Note the details of the ad and report it to the host site.

zAbbo

Stekelly wrote: »

I'll go out on a limb and say theres just an email (one that is operated by a guy at a computer several hundred/thousand miles away)

Yup, I've noticed this kind of thing a lot recently on car sites and apartments for rent.

BigglesMcGee

WOuld the police be interested in this, or would they just be too lazy to go after a criminal.

gally74

call the guards didnt really want to know,

JHMEG

Is it your phone number on the ad too?

Eoin

Is the wording exactly the same, or is it just your picture? There is a small chance that someone just decided to use your picture for their car, as your photo was a good one. What with all the many scams these days, it's not as likely though.

rebel.ranter

The same thing happened a friend of mine 2 months ago. The phone number used was similar to my friend's one with the last three digits changed, e.g.it ended in 08x xxxx999*, the scammer used 08x xxxx888. The poor fecker on the other number was plagued. It had a cheaper price & mentioned that he should only be contacted by email.

* not actual ending

TheNog

BigglesMcGee wrote: »

WOuld the police be interested in this, or would they just be too lazy to go after a criminal.

gally74 wrote: »

call the guards didnt really want to know,

in fairness there is no crime here unless you copyrighted your own photographs and then it wouldn't even be the guards investigating it

gally74

ok, here's the update,

the wife called autotrader, said they have had a load lately, and pulled the ad, they said they have had a load lately,

heres the scam, they say that their just out of the country and need a deposit to secure the car, can have delivered to your door then pay balance, amazingling loads have fallen for it,

anyway the ad has been pulled if anyones looking for a TT quatro let me know,

thanks for the help and spread the word, might help some one out someday!

keep on driving in the VRT reduced world!

BigglesMcGee

TheNog wrote: »

in fairness there is no crime here unless you copyrighted your own photographs and then it wouldn't even be the guards investigating it

There is if the took money off of anyone

miju

TheNog wrote: »

in fairness there is no crime here unless you copyrighted your own photographs and then it wouldn't even be the guards investigating it

on a completely unrealted topic. You don't need to copyright pictures in Ireland. Once you take the snap intellectual copyright is automatically assigned to you

OP just contact Auto Trader first thing tomorrow and they should pull the ad fairly quickly

edit: just saw Auto Trader pulled the ad

MarkN

I wouldn't worry about it. Joe Duffy use my car in the picture anytime they have a silver 335 for sale. The pics in the ad never match the spec they put on the summary :rolleyes:

Sizzler

MarkN wrote: »

I wouldn't worry about it. Joe Duffy use my car in the picture anytime they have a silver 335 for sale. The pics in the ad never match the spec they put on the summary :rolleyes:

Imitation = flattery in this instance

From what I can see CarGiant do the exact same thing, same bloody car everytime and they just update the spec in the blurb :rolleyes: