Anyone who wants to warm their hands selling cars is full, just like the cars themselves. Specialized sites are teeming with ads for those wanting to get rid of their vehicles. Unfortunately there are plenty of them for whom this is a business. Car dealers, resellers and just dishonest businessmen – they all disguise themselves as respectable salespeople. But they have one goal: to earn as much as possible with minimal costs. Let’s try to separate the flies from the cutlets.

First of all, before going to the ad, you should pay attention to the price of the car. If it is below the market then this is the first wake up call. Don’t be fooled by the seller’s assurances that the car needs to be thrown away, because all the known happenings mean a move abroad, to a granny in the jungle or a new wife in sugar. He probably doesn’t even have a car. But over the phone he will definitely tell you that it is almost bought, because there is a lot of calls and to confirm the seriousness of your intentions, you need to drop an advance. If you believe this and transfer the money, the seller disappears without further words of gratitude along with the ad and the deposit.

Carefully study the complete set of the car you want to buy. Car dealers have the opportunity to enter the description of options that are not really there – the manager simply checks the boxes for all functions while waiting for the “burdock” pecking at the rich equipment. As a rule, they will further tell you about the error in filling out the questionnaire on the site, but you have already spent time getting to know the “bare” car. While you’re looking at it, though, there’s no less interesting option. Indeed, much more expensive. To avoid this, it is better to find out before purchasing what configurations a particular model had and what options the car was actually equipped with.

To discover a scammer when he calls, it is enough to tell him just one sentence: “I am calling based on an advertisement.” He will betray himself with the answer: “for what?”. This means that a person does not have one ad, but several at the same time. Admittedly, a similar situation can arise with car sales intermediaries and with resellers. But about this, and about that, you already know.

Lots of grammatical errors – a direct indication that this is an efficient pseudo-seller with a large number of advertisements – he has neither the time nor the desire to sit down on the content of each of them. A decent person will check everything more than once. Moreover, the real owner will enthusiastically describe all the details, including how he took care of his “swallow”.

A brief description is also through. Especially if after the sentence “not a little, not pretty” comes “Ask on the phone”. If the “bodywork” can still be checked, then entering into some kind of lease agreement, which they will tell you about on the other side of the pipe, is already quite dangerous. There can be both pitfalls with legal subtleties, and when transferring money without entering into a purchase agreement, they can be lost in the blink of an eye, without getting the car back itself. You never know for what reason you transferred money to a person. Nobody forced you.

In general, be vigilant. Don’t be fooled. And most importantly, check everything you read in the ad. And we strongly advise against transferring money before buying a car, nor just talking to the seller.

Anyone who wants to warm their hands selling cars is full, just like the cars themselves. Specialized sites are teeming with ads for those wanting to get rid of their vehicles. Unfortunately there are plenty of them for whom this is a business. Car dealers, resellers and just dishonest businessmen – they all disguise themselves as respectable salespeople. But they have one goal: to earn as much as possible with minimal costs. Let’s try to separate the flies from the cutlets.

First of all, before going to the ad, you should pay attention to the price of the car. If it is below the market then this is the first wake up call. Don’t be fooled by the seller’s assurances that the car needs to be thrown away, because all the known happenings mean a move abroad, to a granny in the jungle or a new wife in sugar. He probably doesn’t even have a car. But over the phone he will definitely tell you that it is almost bought, because there is a lot of calls and to confirm the seriousness of your intentions, you need to drop an advance. If you believe this and transfer the money, the seller disappears without further words of gratitude along with the ad and the deposit.

Carefully study the complete set of the car you want to buy. Car dealers have the opportunity to enter the description of options that are not really there – the manager simply checks the boxes for all functions while waiting for the “burdock” pecking at the rich equipment. As a rule, they will further tell you about the error in filling out the questionnaire on the site, but you have already spent time getting to know the “bare” car. While you’re looking at it, though, there’s no less interesting option. Indeed, much more expensive. To avoid this, it is better to find out before purchasing what configurations a particular model had and what options the car was actually equipped with.

To discover a scammer when he calls, it is enough to tell him just one sentence: “I am calling based on an advertisement.” He will betray himself with the answer: “for what?”. This means that a person does not have one ad, but several at the same time. Admittedly, a similar situation can arise with car sales intermediaries and with resellers. But about this, and about that, you already know.

Lots of grammatical errors – a direct indication that this is an efficient pseudo-seller with a large number of advertisements – he has neither the time nor the desire to sit down on the content of each of them. A decent person will check everything more than once. Moreover, the real owner will enthusiastically describe all the details, including how he took care of his “swallow”.

A brief description is also through. Especially if after the sentence “not a little, not pretty” comes “Ask on the phone”. If the “bodywork” can still be checked, then entering into some kind of lease agreement, which they will tell you about on the other side of the pipe, is already quite dangerous. There can be both pitfalls with legal subtleties, and when transferring money without entering into a purchase agreement, they can be lost in the blink of an eye, without getting the car back itself. You never know for what reason you transferred money to a person. Nobody forced you.

In general, be vigilant. Don’t be fooled. And most importantly, check everything you read in the ad. And we strongly advise against transferring money before buying a car, nor just talking to the seller.