Audi A3 Attraction 1.6

aaf

Guys, I saw this on autotrader last wknd but it was gone again after a day or so. Any opinions? It kinda looks like one of those scams I read about on a thread here but...I'm very interested in it.

http://www.autotrader.ie/search/Audi/A3/Attracti/200934194988612/advert?channel=CARS

Seperate

Looks like it's a little too good to be true.

The price for year/mileage/1 owner etc. would suggest SCAM to me.

Similar cars are going for double that on carzone.

Mr Benevolent

Yup, it's a scam. Email address in the text is a real giveaway.

Zonda999

Certain scam OP, if the price looks too good to be true(which it does in this case) it is too good to be true:rolleyes:

mini mouse

SCAM! I was looking at a3's about two months ago and that one was floating around too !

jaffa20

Yeah, it's a scam. You'll get this response and then they will ask for you to pay half the fee for it to be shipped to ireland for a few days and then you can decide whether you want to buy it or not :rolleyes: these scammers really need to have a bit more brains about them.

Hi there, the car is still available for the price of 4.500 EUR and that I am awfully sorry for the late reply.
The car is in excellent overall condition, never involved in an accident.The car is still Irish registered.
I worked in Ireland for 2 years and the company i worked for was disolved and i had to move back to UK. I am selling it for this price because the UK registration taxes are to expensive for me.
Please get back to me.

bazz26

I thought it would have been obviouse that a 2004 Audi A4 on sale for €4500 was enough to know it was a scam.

aaf

jaffa20 wrote: »

Yeah, it's a scam. You'll get this response and then they will ask for you to pay half the fee for it to be shipped to ireland for a few days and then you can decide whether you want to buy it or not :rolleyes: these scammers really need to have a bit more brains about them.

Hi there, the car is still available for the price of 4.500 EUR and that I am awfully sorry for the late reply.
The car is in excellent overall condition, never involved in an accident.The car is still Irish registered.
I worked in Ireland for 2 years and the company i worked for was disolved and i had to move back to UK. I am selling it for this price because the UK registration taxes are to expensive for me.
Please get back to me.

On the ad, location of the car is Dublin and it's a Kerry reg. I thought most of these scams were done using UK based cars?

Mr Benevolent

aaf wrote: »

On the ad, location of the car is Dublin and it's a Kerry reg. I thought most of these scams were done using UK based cars?

New variation on the scam. Don't be tempted or you'll end up seriously out of pocket.

bazz26

Irrespective of location, fake phone numbers, e-mail addresses or photos, does the fact that the seller is only looking for €4500 for a 5 year old A3 not register as dodgy with some people?

The extremely low price seems to be the one piece of bate that always bites for these scam artists. Some people seem to put all caution or natural instict to the wind when it comes to seeing a bargin. No such thing as a free lunch, people need to be more street wise.

Ri_Nollaig

perhaps a stupid question, but how do they actually scam you?
car clocked, been a crash or stolen or what?
just wondering

jaffa20

aaf wrote: »

On the ad, location of the car is Dublin and it's a Kerry reg. I thought most of these scams were done using UK based cars?

Well,if you contact them, they will tell you the car is currently in the uk but registered in ireland etc etc scammy scam scam.

groupb

Its definitly a scam .I drove a convertible one of these as a rental car (it was what I was given) on holiday in Spain two weeks ago and there is no way that they could be worth as much as 4500 euro at 5 years old.;)