I've been researching and looking at MY10 RRS TDV6 for about 6 months.

This week I spotted this MY10 TDV6:
Rego
RWC
Perfect working condition, no accidents, no faults.
Service history, 182000km service with cam belts completed with cam belts replaced.
188,062 km
For $8600 . . yes you read it right.

What's the catch . . well, car is currently in storage and the seller doesn't want to meet in person (alarm bells ringing). However, the seller wants to complete the transaction through escrow.com. Up until this week I had never heard of this service.
Apparently the idea is I pay escrow the money, they hold it, the car gets shipped to me and I have 5 days to inspect and drive and if I'm happy money is released to seller. If I'm not, I ship the car back to the seller at their expense.

I'm not one to judge a persons situation, there could well be many reasons the seller doesn't want to interact with buyers.

I did mention politely that this is an exceptional price for an MY10 mode and asked politely if there was a reason it was being sold at this price . . that question was overlooked.

However, alarm bells are ringing very loudly . . . just wanted to shout out and see if anyone recognized the car




 Life is far too short for boring cars!
and why my dream is to own a RRS

This is an old scam - go to the Aussie scam website and learn all about it.

The car will be advertised elsewhere in a genuine add - $26000.

The scammer just takes the pics etc and makes a new add - where did you see it - REPORT IT.

And here is the genuine add, it is near me. https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2...=Spotlight 07MY RRS TDV6
Arctic Frost
Aspen Interior

I was confident this was not genuine; however I haven't seen this scam before. I asked why the car was advertised as such a low price (expecting a mechanical disaster); however that question was overlooked. As was my request for Rego and VIN.

My thoughts were that the car may have been stolen, hence my post here.

Car was advertised on AutoTrader site but only for a couple of days.

Thanks for directing me to the ACCC Scam Watch site, I have reported with all the information I have. Life is far too short for boring cars!
and why my dream is to own a RRS

As above an old type of scam that the UK has suffered for years...exactly as Garry says... all they do is cut and paste the photos from another advert and relist it fraudulently... they are preying on people’s greed to get a bargain and as such give a cock and bull story to support why they can’t meet...
The phone number will be a pay as you go sim...and will be thrown away straight after the ‘sale’...

Something like 40% of adverts are pulled by Autotrader before they are ever listed but unfortunately the odd one gets through... if ever you see photos with a phone number embedded across the picture this is likely to be a scam as well...

The sales media are constantly working to stop these but are literally inundated...

There was one in wrexham a 05 disco 3 hse he only wanted 3k and very low mileage had some cock and bull story of the car was in wrexham and he had moved to Scotland and had no time to move it there so asked him for address so i could go and see it as was not happy doing it that way never heard from him again and add pulled

I like wasting their time and keeping them going for long enough to really wind them up 2012 SDV6 HSE (technically its hers)
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geoffsnook wrote:

There was one in wrexham a 05 disco 3 hse he only wanted 3k and very low mileage had some cock and bull story of the car was in wrexham and he had moved to Scotland and had no time to move it there so asked him for address so i could go and see it as was not happy doing it that way never heard from him again and add pulled