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Lousy photos, even on the Photobucket link, makes engine lid alignment look terrible
I don't buy white cars.
The ad is a scam... hope no one got burned, notice the auction was "ended early because car is no longer available". :mad: Very creative copy, but those photos are of my '68S Targa Sportomatic #11850236 bought almost two years ago. Yes, the engine lid was poorly fitted and it's been a good 30 years since fresh paint. In fact, it needs a full restoration.
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EDIT: After checking his ID history and current ad he has for a '70 RS clone that looks suspiciously familiar, beware. It's time to report.
Wow this is really scary. I usually have a hawk eye for scammers, because unfortunately, I have been scammed several thousand dollars over early porsches for sale. However, initially this ebay listing didn't ring any alerts, until Bullethead replied to this thread. What really confuses me is that it seems like the user ID is very valid, but furthermore, it has "porsche" in the user ID, and his feedback has prior porsche sales! Perhaps this scammer hacked some person's ebay User ID?? Also, normally scammers have an outside contact info like an email address or phone number on the listing itself, but this one had none. In fact the description was very accurate considering, only a very knowledgeable early 911S enthusiast would know about VIN#s and production #s. BUYER BEWARE!!!!!!!
FURTHERMORE... This scammer also posted his outside website address link. I looked at this about a few days ago, not even thinking in the nearest thought that this listing was a scam, BUT when I did initially see the first picture I was a bit confused by the 356pictured in the background. I noticed this is a dealer in CA who sells many 356 and early 911 cars, but didn't know why a picture of his car in front of his garage is on the homepage of this website. Wow, scammers have gotten so creative to now make a website to "back-up" their legitimacy of being a classic porsche dealer. BEWARE!!!
Eric, while his user ID didn't expose anything more than a history of buying a few small parts but plenty of fashion flea-market items, the website he provides is a quicky designed to scam. None of the cars he shows on that .ca site provide sale details or links to any, and I'll bet cash money the photos were lifted from other sources. It is possible the REAL user has had his ID hacked (with the outside site as bait) as the '70T he's currently auctioning shows up in a Vancouver ad as well. Same car, pics taken before the hood lights were added. I've sent him a request for more info, and forwarded suspicions to eBay.
There are several "brokers" around that steal photos, put them on their web sites hoping for a bite. Then they contact the seller with with there freshly caught "fish". They never have posession of the cars and are trying to make a fast buck.
...not to mention, that there even MORE scammers trying to buy cars or even bid on cars then don't pay. this includes a SoCal car/dealer broker here is Los angeles. it's just comes with the territory of doing biz on Ebay. you have to be awake and have very thick skin !
My suspicions are immediately raised when the seller hides the VIN...