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Tractor Scam on Donedeal.com

  • 27-01-2011 08:16PM
    #1
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭


    This is getting all too familar now. Another tractor selling for way below market value. I've contacted Donedeal about 4 or so of these adds so far. They're glad to be told, but I give up at this stage. How do they catch people out? They send on the deposit, I suppose.

    This is a 1998 Case 4240. Selling for €4799. I reckon market value is around the €12K to €14K mark.


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  • #2
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    pakalasa wrote: »
    This is getting all too familar now. Another tractor selling for way below market value. I've contacted Donedeal about 4 or so of these adds so far. They're glad to be told, but I give up at this stage. How do they catch people out? They send on the deposit, I suppose.

    This is a 1998 Case 4240. Selling for €4799. I reckon market value is around the €12K to €14K mark.

    There's several fairly new JD's and Valtra's on it at the moment at dirt cheap prices. They say that they are in Tyrone but they have a foreign code on the telephone number. Definitely a scam too.


  • #3
    Agri contractor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Agri contractor


    I emailed one of these ads before. I asked was the laughing shaft in good order. I got a promt reply. Perfect working order.:mad:


  • #4
    ihatetractors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭ihatetractors


    Another definite scam, that machine is retailing at about double the price.
    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/tractors/1843116


  • #5
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Agri contractor wrote: »
    I emailed one of these ads before. I asked was the laughing shaft in good order. I got a promt reply. Perfect working order.:mad:

    What shape was the wombler grommet? Never buy a tractor with a leaky wombler grommet.


  • #6
    manta356
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭manta356


    I see a few of those in Auto Trader as well


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  • #7
    vincenzolorenzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    How are they actually going to scam people though? Usually scam ads look for you to send a deposit to a foreign account or some other clearly dodgy method. This ad just shows a tractor at well below market value?


  • #8
    meathstevie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,778 ✭✭✭meathstevie


    johngalway wrote: »
    What shape was the wombler grommet? Never buy a tractor with a leaky wombler grommet.

    Thought it was the hydraulic shapeshifter splines..


  • #9
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    there was a scam running in england before with cars.you land over from ireland and they would agree to meet you in such a place and would say they would sell it cheaper for cash. you turn up and get mugged for the money and the s
    *** kicked out of ya


  • #10
    BeeDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭BeeDI


    Hard to believe people actually fall for these scams, but as they say in these parts "there's a lumper born every day":cool:


  • #11
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Had to show ye this one;


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