I responded to an ad on Gumtree a few weeks ago for a dark blue Honda S2000 which was exceptionally cheap... the ad was then promptly removed and I forgot about it. Last week the seller got back to me saying that my message had gone to his spam folder etc etc.

"Hi,
You emailed about my 2004 honda s2000 on gumtree few days ago, I couldn't reply sooner because your email arrived in my junk folder. The car it's up for sale at £3750 now and I believe it's a good price for a car with 95,000 miles and no accidents.
I have uploaded some pics below so, let me know if you're still looking"

The original price was £4900 so taking more than £1000 off for no reason lit the fires of suspicion. I typed his email address (Arthur.Aarts@yahoo.com) into google and got a hit on an MG-Rover forum discussing a similar sounding advert from the same guy, only this one had gone a step further with the 'seller' having explained that he was a dutch soldier with the 'Royal Defence Forces' stationed in Northern Ireland and due to head to Afghanistan in 15 days...

I thought I'd try and pull the seller in a bit so suggested that the price was so good I'd be willing to put down a deposit to secure it, and sure enough I got the 'Royal Defence Forces' message. I was tempted to continue pretending I was interested but decided it was more fun to randomly abuse him. so I sent him this...


"The Royal Defence Forces do not exist. How dumb do you think I am.

Why don't you go and ---- your ------- you thieving little -----.

Get a real job.

You're lucky I only have your email address because if I knew where you were you'd would be in ------- hospital for trying to scam me."


amazingly, he actually replied to me. After calling me a "mother -------- english little cook bastard" he went on to say...


"man...believe me ...i'm a winner in all this shit because I make thousands / month while you wake up at seven and ..for only 1000-2000 pounds/month"


I'm amazed he has the bare-faced cheek to admit to it like that. But I think the best way to get back at him is to make sure everyone is aware of his scam. Please tell anyone you know who may be buying a car to watch out for people like this.

If a car looks too cheap to be true, it probably is.

 

is calling someone a "little cook" an insult across the pond?

There was a thread running around here where someone was running a scam with a few pics of a CR. We got their address and dont know what happened afterward

 

lolz.....