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Hey guys!

I'm currently selling my R34, just put it up on firesport and gumtree, going to put it up today or tomorrow on carsales, and already got a couple hits, but all from NZ...

It all sounds suss and too good to be true as i jacked up the price to 17G for a N/A Tip-Tronic R34 Coupe Skyline and there is still 2 of them chasing! (I would prefer local with cash in hand thats why im putting up the price).

My question is, has anyone sold cars to people in NZ? Whats the process like?

They both claim they work on oil rigs and need a car when they come back, they say they arrange all shipping of the car and someone to come pick it up, money to be transfered via paypal! All conversation have been done via email so far.

I dunno if its a scam or not, but it sounds to good to be true...

And if you can leave some info on selling tips via paypal, cos ive only ever used it to buy...

Cheers

Serg

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Anything to do with a paypal payment for a car sounds like a scam.

My brother advertised on carsales and had a phone call and an email from someone in Malaysia offering to deposit the money into a paypal account, and they did!

However there plan was to get paypal to withdraw payment before they got the car...(we worked it out before any money was sent)

EDIT: They even did some research about what kind of car and where they might be driving it in there country.

Does your email look like the CarSales paypal scam email?

http://helpcentre.carsales.com.au/scam-defence/buyer-articles/february-2010/false-paypal-payment-scam/

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I had a very similar story when selling my wrecked r34.. They offered to pay more than I was asking and said they would pay via paypal which is ment to be safe... Then they tried to clam there paypal wasn't working and wanted me to pay them for shipment then they would reimburse me etc etc.. It was obviously a scam.. That was off eBay though..

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set your email address to a bogus one and let any keen people actually ring you

probably 99% of the banana heads that email you are scammers etc

so just set your email address to [email protected] and let the real people ring you

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Alvin- LOL! If U speak no engrish, why you write and read engrish???

Was definatly a scam. I'm selling my BMW 318I on Carsales at the moment and i get about 2 scam emails/sms a week...in comparrison to my 1 genuine enquiry a month.

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