Buying a vehicle

[brjl2005]

Hello, I found a vehicle on FB market place. Contacted the seller via email. They responded and told me they have it set up through ebay to sell the vehicle. It isnt listed they are supposedly using ebay for the transaction. She asked for full name, shipping address and phone number. Not sure if it's legit. Thanks for any help, Bennie

[evry1nositswindy]

SCAM!!  Asking you to pay with gift cards is next.

[alcoforever]

Ebay never, ever, has anything to do with items listed on other sites.   Never.

[dryophelia]

@brjl2005 

eBay has nothing to do with any other website. 
You are being set up! Stop communicating with this thief. 

E V E R Y T H I N G  they have said to you is a lie. 
There is no vehicle. 
There are no 5 day grace periods and no free shipping. 
There are no eBay storage facilities. 

Did they tell you they had to sell it fast? Was it a widow of a doctor?

Perhaps a US Service Person about to be shipped out?
Or was it acquired in the divorce? 

They use the same messages all the time. And have been for the past 20 years!

Do not buy any gift cards. 

[fab_finds4u]

If the price is too good to be true it is too good to be true.

[1grandmashope_1]

No No No

Scam.

Be forewarned. 

Grandma

[eburtonlab]

Beware scammers who advertise on other sites and tell you that the transaction will be handled through eBay.

That is not how eBay works. eBay does not rely on users finding ads on Facebook or other sites and sending contact information to a seller. Likely the seller will send a phony "invoice" that appears to be from eBay but is not, asking you to pay with gift cards to have the vehicle shipped to you for a free evaluation period.

eBay has no warehouse and does not ship vehicles. eBay does not handle such transactions or provide "vehicle protection orders". Scammers often promise those things, though. Any phone number you may receive on such an "invoice" does not connect to eBay, but to the scammer.

Anyone that asks you to purchase gift cards or to send card codes to them to complete a transaction is trying to take advantage of you. Anyone asking for a gift card is looking for a gift at your expense. Once anyone else knows the code, your money will be gone and you will have no recourse.

See here for some info about avoiding such scams (US links):

https://pages.motors.ebay.com/buy/security/index.html

https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-fraud-schemes/online-vehicle-sale-fraud

The only way to purchase a vehicle on eBay is to sign in to eBay, find the vehicle on eBay and complete the checkout process on eBay, so that the item appears in your Purchase History. Then you typically meet the seller to inspect the vehicle, pay the seller, and collect the keys, title and vehicle.

If you encountered an ad on another site, contact that site to have the ad removed. eBay is not involved with any ads listed on sites other than eBay itself.