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Originally posted by Tiger
All of it, have a look at the car values on page one and you'll get an idea.
Ouchie
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Tiger
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I've just looked at your original thread with the picture, did you buy it off a private seller or a garage? as the picture used is off a car sales website based in Blakedown, is that where you went for it?
That picture wasnt the actual car I bought, it was the only photo of that type of car I had handy. The car I went for was private, was advertised on Pistonheads website and I test drove it, checked out vin numbers etc to see they all matched up, hpi'd it etc etc.
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DannyB
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Ah I see
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Edd
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hope you get your cash
but
its screaming scam!
i'd be straight on the phone to the coppers telling them to meet me at "his" house before its burned down in a mysterious accident
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Tiger
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There's been no crime commited yet though, the police wouldnt do a thing. I have to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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DannyB
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Can you post the link to the for sale advert?
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p
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I fucking hate pistonheads 
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Graham88
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Going to be a painful wait until Thursday, although I fail to see why it will take that long. I can go online and do a bank transfer right now, I don't see what the problem is.
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Jake
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if its with a different bank to him it wont be instant, it can take up to a week to clear
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jmacd
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Would someone else be able to transfer from his account?
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big eck
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This waiting till the end of next week is bollocks.
Just go with the "brother" to his bank tomorrow and get the money out there and then
Simple
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Ojc
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Yeah what banks is it?
I know Natwest to HSBC is instant, it's building societys to banks that is usually a delay so if it's bank to bank hes stalling.
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Tiger
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Originally posted by DannyB
Can you post the link to the for sale advert?
No, he took the advert off when i bought it...
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Tiger
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Originally posted by big eck
This waiting till the end of next week is bollocks.
Just go with the "brother" to his bank tomorrow and get the money out there and then
Simple
The bank's not open tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Tiger
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Originally posted by Ojc
Yeah what banks is it?
I know Natwest to HSBC is instant, it's building societys to banks that is usually a delay so if it's bank to bank hes stalling.
I'm lloyds, he's natwest - the bank confirmed it would take 3-4 days
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jmacd
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This may have been answered but why didnt you take the cash when u went to view the car
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Tiger
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Great idea - take 8k in cash.
Heard way too many horror stories, view the car innocently, then you and 'seller' get mugged coincidently.
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You'll have nobody to press charges against they will just flea to pakistan then come back as someone else.
Even though the whole thing sounds dodgy as fuck, the effort that would take would not be worth £7k.
Not really, could pretend to come back as a relative on borrowed documents, it happens.
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ash_corsa
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You can pay a small fee for a quicker transaction on large sums of cash.
I recently had to transfer £11,000 from my NatWest account to my solicitors Barclays account, if i did it normally it would take 3-4 days, i paid something like £12.50 and it was in their account by 3pm the same day.
Really hope you get your cash back matey, i have been scammed with a car before and lost almost £8,000 just had to hold my hands up and say i fucked up!
Bought a car without the V5, trusted the seller, turned out to be a ringer. Police seized the car and gave it back to the insurance company. Gutted didnt even begin to describe it!!
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Tiger
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You can pay a small fee for a quicker transaction on large sums of cash.
You can do, but I did it online.
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jmacd
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Originally posted by Tiger
Great idea - take 8k in cash.
Heard way too many horror stories, view the car innocently, then you and 'seller' get mugged coincidently.
enough people manage to buy cars paying in cash! I think you now realise why they do
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Tiger
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Originally posted by Tiger
Great idea - take 8k in cash.
Heard way too many horror stories, view the car innocently, then you and 'seller' get mugged coincidently.
enough people manage to buy cars paying in cash! I think you now realise why they do
Enough isnt good enough! If it was a couple of grand yeah no worries, not 8 grand though, come on. If you were carrying 8 grand in CASH around with and got mugged you have no leg to stand on, nothing whatsoever will get the money back to you.
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big eck
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Taking £8k in cash isnt ereally a problem imo.
Its not as if anyone is keeping tabs on you persoanlly knowing that you've got £8k in cash on you lol.
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Jake
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on the other hand if you told him you'd come on the day with the cash then he wouldnt have a leg to stand on if it WAS a scam. It werent as if you were meeting up in a carpark
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Tiger
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Like I was saying though, i've bought and sold at least 5 cars by bank transactions. If I was selling, they would bank transfer the money, when the money was in, they collected, it was simple. Ive bought cars like this too before, with no problems.
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