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cash for cars scam

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  • 04-03-2020 8:51pm
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    tillyfilly
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    All the stickers that are on abandoned cars, these cash for cars companies are they all scammers who will take your car strip it and burn it out or leave it at the side of the road? Then you will be left to clean up the mess when the authorities trace it back to you?


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    mickdw
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    Nah most of them will take the car and just drive it into scrap dealer for quick profit


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    tillyfilly
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    mickdw wrote: »
    Nah most of them will take the car and just drive it into scrap dealer for quick profit

    ln that scenario lets say they off you 90 for your car and you know the most you will get is 110 at the scrap yard, it's hard to see why they would do it for 20 quid


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    L1011
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    If it's drivable it'll be exported to an African nation that uses our side of the road and has minimal to no roadworthiness checks

    If it's not they'll scrap at it preferential rates for bulk and live with the small profit.

    You won't get a destruction cert so if it somehow does end up in use again here you've no proof it's not yours


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    2Mad2BeMad
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    L1011 wrote: »
    If it's drivable it'll be exported to an African nation that uses our side of the road and has minimal to no roadworthiness checks

    If it's not they'll scrap at it preferential rates for bulk and live with the small profit.

    I also have a polish "friend" I use it loosely but hes a nice lad,

    He buys near scrap cars for low price and strips them and sends the parts back to poland his brother is mechanic in poland and apparently they both make a tidy profit from it. Didnt get into the ins and out of it but he seems to know alot about cars.


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    tillyfilly
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    L1011 wrote: »
    If it's drivable it'll be exported to an African nation that uses our side of the road and has minimal to no roadworthiness checks

    If it's not they'll scrap at it preferential rates for bulk and live with the small profit.

    You won't get a destruction cert so if it somehow does end up in use again here you've no proof it's not yours

    seems like too much of a risk, I had an experience last month and they promised they would send on the end of life cert if I gave them the car , a claim I doubted so much I ditched the whole idea, that they wouldn't send on a cert sounds way more plausible


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    bliger
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    Will be using cartakeback service, done a quote online yesterday should be collected tomorrow


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    tillyfilly
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    bliger wrote: »
    Will be using cartakeback service, done a quote online yesterday should be collected tomorrow

    Will you be dropping it off or having it collected?


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    bliger
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    tillyfilly wrote: »
    Will you be dropping it off or having it collected?
    Will be collected from home


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    WhatGoesUp
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    bliger wrote: »
    Will be using cartakeback service, done a quote online yesterday should be collected tomorrow

    Have you been given an estimate?


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    bliger
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭bliger


    WhatGoesUp wrote: »
    Have you been given an estimate?

    yes, on their website


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    Duke O Smiley
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    If you decide to sell your car to them, DO NOT HAND OVER THE LOGBOOK. Make them sign it with a name and address, and you post it off to the department of transport. Unless they can provide you with a valid and verifiable garage code (I guarantee you they won't) in which case you both fill out an RF105 form (downloadable online) and you hand the dealer the logbook.

    Do not let the logbook out of your sight when you are dealing with them either.


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    bliger
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭bliger


    bliger wrote: »
    Will be using cartakeback service, done a quote online yesterday should be collected tomorrow

    got my certificate of destruction by post.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Do due dilligence, or you could find yourself on the wrong end of a lawsuit if the car is subsequently involved in shennanigans. Companies like STR truck spares in Mitchelstown have been around for donkeys and have a good rep. I've used them in the past, got my cheque and cert of destruction. They tell me there are lads going around pretending to be them in vehicles with no signage.


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