So, help me to understand how this might play out. It would appear this deal is *FAR* too good to be true to anyone who knows anything about these cars as it's priced below market by about $35k. Obviously that is FAR TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE by any measure of the word.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2010-Porsche-911-GT3-Nice-Very-Clean-Low-Mileage-Must-Sell-/281083996715?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item4171e96a2b #vi-content

However, help me to understand how the scam would likely work for the seller. The guy has a legit VIN number (from somewhere, potentially even from the actual car pictured), describes it and the mods well enough, the AutoCheck title history looks reasonable, yet he says he'll sell for $65k in his fine print. I fully expect the bidding to go well above that mark, assuming the auction doesn't get shut down ahead of time.

My question is whether the scam is likely based on him receiving a deposit (or, worse yet, the full sales price of the car) ahead of time and then disappearing? I don't really see any other way for this to work out, unless he's just crazy confident that the car will command a fair market price and is willing to roll the dice of course. I guess he does have a reserve yet, but one would have to assume it's set at $65k according to his own comments.

I'm just looking for a bit of enlightenment about how this might play out, since it's very much a world I know little about (assuming it's a scam). Could I just be about to miss out on the deal of a lifetime instead?

 

He has a reserve price now so anything too good to be true usually is.

 

When you email him directly he will go over the same scenario about being out of the country and using eBay to complete the sale.... Same old **** different day!

 

Maybe the $500 deposit that he specifies is due within 48 hours of the auction closing is the prize? The seller has 0 feedback on the auction site too (I didn't even notice that originally) which is of course another bright red flag!

 

I think it's a 6speed members car and he was trying to sell it for more than 65K. If it's too good to be true than it probably is.

 

Totally agreed...I suspected a scam immediately.

 

I found the member, he was trying to sell it for $119,900, here is the link

https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...t3-loaded.html

It's a total scam.

 

Awesome, at least now there can be no doubt whatsoever that it's a scam. Thanks Ynot.

 

Yes, they scam u for the 500$ deposit, seen it b4.

 

It's actually kind of interesting to me since it costs a lot more to sell a vehicle on that auction site than it used to, hence confusing me a bit more. However, even with that out of the way the scammer pockets a few hundred bucks for sure...then probably creates another user account and does it all over again.

Anyway, not much more to say on the topic. Thanks for humoring the question at least since it had at least a tiny bit of GT3 relevance!

 

Any one emailed him for the fun of it? His email is on the advert.

 

I have dropped a note to avi8tor to see if its him or a scam.

 

That car has also been on Autotrader for the longest as well...

 

Before I bought my RS, I tried several times through auto trader to contact this guy... No response ... I would've bought this car near full price...
I wanted the red deviated stitching ..I wanted this car...
So be it.. I waited and got a dream car... Almost same price to boot...
. I'm happy...

 

Yep, that's my car.... And it's definitely a scam. I sold my car in November... It's a 75% copy of my eBay listing from then.

Hope someone doesn't get scammed! I reported it to ebay but haven't gotten a response.