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Lesson learned: Inform buyers that if they need to bring someone to feel comfortable with meeting you that's fine, but only one person. No groups. Anybody with sense will understand, whereas anybody who doesn't is best not dealt with at all.
A fairly common scam. Good on your to not give in on it. For other confused redditors: they spill oil on engine bay to make it look like your engine is blown or having issues so you will reduce price significantly for them.
There was someone who posted their husband fell for this. Listed a truck for $8000 and the scammers convinced him the gasket was blown so he let them have it for $4600. Well duh open up the oil with a running engine, oil everywhere. Don’t take your eyes off your property.
This is properly common from eastern European scammers. Especially in the UK where they don't and export a perfectly good car that they practically stole
Right wtf. This story makes no sense. They distracted him and "his wife" poured oil into the radiator. How tf did they try to scam you lmao. Sounds like your wife tried to scam you.
Punctuation error is missing a comma or period. This is using the entire wrong word. Which sometimes, one word changes the entire story completely. Like in this case. I still don't understand wtf they meant then.
Language and proper use of grammar is expected anywhere the language is used; graffiti, bathroom stalls or even texting.
Don’t be a twat and blame everyone else for you failing the 5th grade.
You pluralized Nazis improperly, unless you meant to use a possessive apostrophe, in which case a possessive pluralization like "Grammar Nazis' need for..." would be appropriate without 'and their', except it is still an incomplete sentence.
Also thank you. This is exactly what I was saying. I didn't mention grammar at all. The one word that is apparently wrong is just the wrong word. Not improper grammar.
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Lesson learned: Inform buyers that if they need to bring someone to feel comfortable with meeting you that's fine, but only one person. No groups. Anybody with sense will understand, whereas anybody who doesn't is best not dealt with at all.
A fairly common scam. Good on your to not give in on it. For other confused redditors: they spill oil on engine bay to make it look like your engine is blown or having issues so you will reduce price significantly for them.
There was someone who posted their husband fell for this. Listed a truck for $8000 and the scammers convinced him the gasket was blown so he let them have it for $4600. Well duh open up the oil with a running engine, oil everywhere. Don’t take your eyes off your property.
PunctuationLivesMatter Let's eat, Grandma. Let's eat Grandma.
As the seller its best to have someone with you as well, with their sole purpose to.watch over the car in the event you are distracted.
You should mention this in the cities subreddit where you live
I’m confused. What do you think they were trying to do, and what’s the deal with your wife spilling oil?
The wife was in on it.
The wife didn’t spill oil, the buyers did. Punctuation error on OP.
Oh right, a comma would have cleared that up haha
I had to read that a couple of times to realize what OP was saying.
Punctuation matters, lol. The buyers distracted him and his wife, then poured oil on the engine
U/Remote-ad43
Ayee I live basically next to Mission Bay. Ty for posting
Things that never happened.
It’s an extremely common scam. I’ve never seen a murder but I know they happen.
Don't mind my buddy here.... he always carries around a bottle of motor oil - it's just his "thing"
This is properly common from eastern European scammers. Especially in the UK where they don't and export a perfectly good car that they practically stole
You were there?
Right wtf. This story makes no sense. They distracted him and "his wife" poured oil into the radiator. How tf did they try to scam you lmao. Sounds like your wife tried to scam you.
Don't be obtuse. It was a punctuation error.
Cant read obtuse without thinking of movie shawshank redemption
Punctuation error is missing a comma or period. This is using the entire wrong word. Which sometimes, one word changes the entire story completely. Like in this case. I still don't understand wtf they meant then.
Lol grammar nazi’s and their need for text messaging to be grammatically correct 🤦♂️ Texting was never meant to be grammatically correct!
Language and proper use of grammar is expected anywhere the language is used; graffiti, bathroom stalls or even texting. Don’t be a twat and blame everyone else for you failing the 5th grade.
Thank you!
You pluralized Nazis improperly, unless you meant to use a possessive apostrophe, in which case a possessive pluralization like "Grammar Nazis' need for..." would be appropriate without 'and their', except it is still an incomplete sentence.
Except in this situation it led to a genuine misunderstanding of what was being said.
Also thank you. This is exactly what I was saying. I didn't mention grammar at all. The one word that is apparently wrong is just the wrong word. Not improper grammar.
I wasn't being a grammar nazi in the slightest. This is just wrong words. Which changes the story completely.
Bull shit.