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Austin Healey Scams
By: dovestreet( 1239Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) Top 5000 Reviewer
70 out of 72 people found this guide helpful.
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My lunchtime hobby is watching listings of Austin Healey's.  I own a 61 BT7.  The scams started out with one every other week or so but now it is up to about 4 per week.  Today, one was listed and the stolen ID person caught it and cancelled that listing and within two hours, the same car (pictures) showed up under another seller (stolen) ID.  Wednesday, a car was listed using pictures of the same car that successfully sold about four days earlier.  They use the same stunts, starting prices of $100 or less (for a 30K car)  "buy it now" in the listing for 3K to 6K on that same car.  No real BUY-IT_NOW button link. Contact address is in the body of the listing, different than stolen seller's ID.  Addresses are usually the freebee sites,  Yahoo, earthlink, etc.

Guide ID: 10000000002237873Guide created: 11/03/06 (updated 01/11/09)

 
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