Selling car for cash?

Wantobe

I'm sure this has been asked before, so apologies in advance, but when selling a car for cash how do you avoid being scammed with fake notes etc?

Atlantic Dawn

Either buy yourself one of those UV Pens and check the notes but hope that the buyer hasn't coated them in suntan lotion or else simply meet buyer at your local bank and get them to deposit the money in your account.

Besides the obvious note checks and lodging the money in a bank or similar and them checking it. I always reckon checking the buyers address against a driver's license or similar and not sending off the change of ownership for a while is not a bad safety net. Anyone offloading loads of dodgy notes won't want the Gardai at their door after a few hours asking questions. Most I ever got for a car was €4800, I wasn't able to check the notes properly but I dropped the car down to the lads house and felt 100% sure everything was junky dorey. If it turned out that it wasn't I'd have had the car back that day.

McKeever14

get a fiver note or something etc..
have the side with the big 5 facing up..
just to the right of the centre is a green rectangle just about the arch...
if you rub your nail over that rectangle from left to right you will feel bumps..

ive been told to replicate that is the hardest aspect of faking notes... and that part is on all notes.. not just fives..

Wantobe

Thanks for the tips, I like the idea about lodging the money at the bank and holding on the change of ownership for a couple of days. Never knew that about the bumps on the notes, either- you learn something new every day.:)

kindalen

bumps ar not just for security, think its for blind people too.