Am I Being Scammed ? Advice please

[flymo]

Ed, tell 'em to get stuffed. If a buyer needs finance they can go and get it themselves. Dont get involved.

fook them off m8! sounds dodgy.

My brother used a similar type of firm whilst selling his car.... they rang him out of the blue with an "interested buyer" after 2 months and no sale they told him they couldn`t sell it and he lost his money!

An intelligent guy like yourself shouldn't really need to be asking this.

Give them a polite but firm 'no thank you'

dont think its same place that site just sells bike gear.
Put phone number into google will prob come back as scam
If its motorshopuk.com then run very quickly away it does not work and they do not have a buyer lined up you will lose your money and wish you had listened to all the helpful peeps on the org.

[embee]

These characters just trawl the ads in Autotrader etc and if the ad runs for more than x days they target you. They won't find a buyer for you, they get their money the easy way, from you................

[timwilky]

Lovely business model, win win for them. why bother trying to sell the bike/car etc. They have already got money from the vendor.

I can only assume the incentive for them to do some work is a huge commission on a finance deal.

Not a scam as such. but very likely to result in the vendor seeing nothing for his money

[Paul the 6th]

there's an easy way to avoid canvassers... Simply include the phrase "canvassers will be told to f*ck off" in your ad & the callsseem to stop

Don't even bother putting 'No Canvassers' in your ad, it's a waste of whatever word count the advertiser allows cos they will still call you anyway - at least 10 of the barstewards called me when I was selling my car in Auto Trader.

I used to challenge them with something along the lines of "So this 'buyer' knew about and approached your firm, which I have never heard of by the way, wanting to buy a Clio but didn't think to look in Auto Trader, one of (if not THE) biggest-selling car classifieds paper in the UK, where they would see my advert for themselves? I don't f***ing think so..."

[Paul the 6th]

Mine seemed to work for the bike, only had one call and they hung up when I asked if they had the advert in front of them...