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Seller is not providing his address to walk and purchase the car that he sold to me via "Buy It Now"
The seller was selling a 2024 Toyota Corolla Cross SE, and sent me a “Buy Now Offer†for the amount of $5,400. I agreed to the offer, and purchased the vehicle on eBay. Seller is requiring money orders as a payment option. I am ok with it, but seller is not responding with his address, where I should appear in person and handle the money order, and pick up the car. I have sent the seller multi messages via eBay, but the seller is ignoring me. I need eBay to step in and force the seller to provide the car’s location, where I can pay it in person via money order as he has selected the preferred payment. Is it any other option to make this transaction successfuly?
Thank you in advance,
gator08041971
Mentor2 years ago@dalipid
My thing is, when buying something like a car, you should never pay for it till you have a chance to look it over in person.
If the seller is being that difficult, I would walk away. Someone wanting to sell a car should be approachable and willing to respond and work with the buyer.
If you are getting a run around type of response, walk away from it, don't lose your money over it.
Money orders are in the somewhat sketchy option for buying a car in my opinion. Cash or certified check might be better, but ALWAYS pay in person, never pay over the internet for something like a car. A money order once claimed is gone and you won't get it back and they will have taken your money.
A 2024 Toyota for 5400?? Scam.
So if they aren't giving you an address, its probably a scam of some sort. Price is too good to be true, story why they are selling it is probably embellished, things like that.
And if you found this listing through a site like Facebook, its most definitely a scam.
dalipid
OP2 years agoThank you for your inputs! Very helpful!
gator08041971
Mentor2 years ago@dalipid
Not a problem! We see 5-10 of these almost every day on here in one form or another. Often they start on someplace like Facebook market place, they send you to eBay to "buy" the car, then ask to have you pay them with either gift cards or whatever that can't be traced or recovered.
They will promise all these different things, like shipping the car to you, etc, offer a TGTBT (too good to be true) offer and some sort of sob story, spouse passed away, or overseas in the military, things like this.
Its a common scam and many people fall for it.
glorybells
·2 years ago@gator08041971 ,
reading through this, the one thing that really hit me was the price. No way. I just paid $10,000 for an 8 year old car with over 100,000 miles on it.