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Blue wrote: Fri Dec 05, 25 5:56 pm
15 years ago it was like the Wild West on here, these days, tumbleweed….
Must admit I racked up all my posts back then - I’ve been through a lull but trying to be back a bit now - but I only check here every couple of days- used to be couple of times an hr !
But forums are a bit like that - busy breeds busy.
I assumed you’d all migrated to facetube…
I've been told that Facebook is great for sourcing parts so I probably should sign up just for that. I've gone to sign up a couple of times now but just couldn't do it!
Steve wrote: Fri Dec 05, 25 4:01 pm
That Challenger looks nice for the money. Still a lot of money (3 times more than Ive ever paid for any car ) but relatively speaking, in the 'a bit affordable' category
Yes looks a good price and super rare Western Sports Special, but none original engine (unless he's made a mistake and it's a 340). The 1970 was never available with a 360, that only became available on the Challenger in 1974.
Yes facebook groups are where the parts are these days, it’s also scam central so you need to be careful. Unfortunately it’s where all the traffic is these days so specific forums have become quiet because of it. It’s pretty difficult to continue in the hobby these days without it to be honest.
“Buy it broke and fix it wrong, it’s the American way”
Its a shame really that Facebook is taking over everything and I had heard that there are a lot of scams etc on there. I just dont trust any of it and as I dont need any of it, Im happy to just plod along in my own World. Theres a very small harbour village near me and Im told there is a huge Facebook fight going on there over a planning issue. Grown adults slinging public insults at each other but apparently not even acknowledging it face to face. Very strange behaviour.
Anyway, my pal in Canada sent me this recently, a bit more on thread. Lovely looking car and if genuine, I guess rare and desireable. Think the equivilent is about £75k as I think its 2:1 on Canadian dollars to UK pound...
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Blue wrote: Mon Dec 08, 25 3:02 pm
Yes facebook groups are where the parts are these days, it’s also scam central so you need to be careful. Unfortunately it’s where all the traffic is these days so specific forums have become quiet because of it. It’s pretty difficult to continue in the hobby these days without it to be honest.
You make some good points Blue.
I think if I was to buy anything through Facebook I'd go and collect it in person before parting with any cash.
I’ve bought plenty of parts through Facebook, mostly in the UK but occasionally from the States, mostly without issue, only been caught once and that was party due to my own haste. Most scammers lift photos from old adverts so asking for a photo including a piece of paper with the sellers name and date on usually weeds them out.
“Buy it broke and fix it wrong, it’s the American way”
The Aussie Facebook groups are full of scammers
modus operandi of the scammers in Oz is as follows
id expect similar everywhere.
1) watch a number of related groups
2) see who is trusted and sells good stuff, if its new old stock of long obsolete parts, even better.
3) arrange a purchase with a top seller, but insist you won't buy until you see proof of ID, decent resolution... come on... i need to read the detail....Please..., Bet that in an old car-related group, the guy is probably 50+ and will just take a photo of his driving licence or some such because he is not very internet savvy and you are just another ebay/facebook messer.... (store that ID away on your PC). choose if you go through with the purchase. how gullible if this guy? what extra detail can i get. You now have his name and address email address mobile phone number, an ID number form a government issued document, and any detail he recklessly put in his FB profile regarding education job and work place. NICE... Also gets to knows who all the facebook friends are, Just posting about the great time you had with them all at ?????? all "faces in the scene man", all trustworthy easy going guys.
3) see which is the least favoured group, or group with the lowest number of posts from your target, the same guys use all the same groups...
4) Bide your time for a month or two
5) create a FB account with their name backwards or changed David Gray becomes Gray, David Dave Gray or David Grey
6) go to the group least favoured by David Gray so he will take a while to spot you.
7) advertise a load of stuff, mainly NOS, using pictures you have collected over the years or found on message boards, ideally for "sales" the orginal poster made years ago, using his words. Google images never forgets a nice NOS VH valiant chromed indicator housing, that picture will have em all drooling .
8) create a bank account with a "NEW" bank (revolut monzo stylee) in the name of the guy in step 3 using internet banking and the image of the ID you got, yes i work at ??????? yes my wages will be paid in blaa blaaa, the debit cards are all virtual so nothing will be sent to your target. and you can pay from one card to another using pay pal invoicing between 2 accounts.
9) if you hook a buyer, Insist on a £20 charge for using pay-pal and over quote on postage and insurance, you'd rather have inter bank transfer, it costs less for both of you. Customers will use this method....its all starting to cost more than expected.... let the money roll right in.
10) happily answer emails and phone calls, be affable easy going and nice, when approached by purchaser send some photos you didn't use in your advert or a picture of a box with the buyers address, just gotta fill in the customs form.
11) All past customers of the guy in step 3 state he is an upstanding guy and they had no problem, some of his mates get irate , in response to all the complaints in the group as people pay and over the next few weeks nothing arrives.
12) stop responding to emails and take the sim out of your mobile and close your FB account Just disappear with the cash
13) let the guy from step 3 take all of the abuse. ruining any trust anyone ever had in him, let him take the threats of violence, the "I know where you live and where you kids go to school", type menacing on the net and at the next car show.
how do i know... well i think you can guess... bigger purchase off a guy i have successfully purchased smaller cost items off before only to find its not him...
hours and hours of work with impacted parties to sort it out.....
yes i got my £300 back working with the real guy, useful info i collected from others, and internet detail on australian sort codes linking them to bank branch street addresses... I phoned the bank branch in australia and asked them not to complete the transaction
they said they wouldn't do that based on just my call .... So had the real guy phone as well, 10 minutes later, to prove his identity had been stolen (misused in this case). I was basically persistent and annoying to all parties involved over a period of a week.
my own bank was useless..money has gone mate. nuffin we can do, you get-me -yeah?.
during this time i was getting FB messages from people offering to help one of whom may have been the scammer on a different FB account,every bit of their "help" was a hindrance.
2 weeks later I got a letter from my bank saying i was a very silly boy... but due to some kind of international transfer problem the money I had sent to XXXXX had been returned but i'd still have to cover the charge from the conversion from £ to $. Don't do it again.....
patronising gits
odd that because UK end charges for the conversion and the australian end was going to as well... £-> $ here, then it travels as $, turns back into £ when it lands in Oz and needs to be converted again (scammers eh! they are everywhere) seemingly it costs both banks....
This is a warning not a set of instructions....i've purchased lots of stuff from upstanding citizens of many countries.... but you will come across a wrong-un occasionally, never underestimate how low some will stoop.
suggest paypal using you credit card, for some protection......
If you sell lots of stuff be aware of attempts to steal your ID. A photo of their email requesting proof,and today's paper with date visible goes some way to prove you have the part to the person who wants to purchase. If they are asking for other stuff and it doesn't seem quite right, tell em where to go.
A Scammer can't easily do that, they cant take a photo of the part they don't have, unless they are a wizz with the AI.. but check they don't have 6 fingers and the hands of a lady....
Dave
The Greater Knapweed near the Mugwort by the Buckthorn tree is dying
Personally I think Ai will make the internet unusable from a security point of view in the very near future the way things are headed. PayPal won’t even discuss a transaction with you if it’s a friends and family transaction in my experience. When I got scammed it was for oddball Mopar parts on a US Facebook group, evidence since points to the scammers being UK based which is a bit odd.
“Buy it broke and fix it wrong, it’s the American way”
The problem is it’s very difficult now to conduct your daily life without the internet, the world basically runs on it and it’s becoming less rather than more secure IMO. Social media you can keep at arms length at the moment but going forward it will become an integral part of day to day life I think.
“Buy it broke and fix it wrong, it’s the American way”
Yes, even though Im a technophobe, I use the internet for lots of day to day stuff (online banking, electric bills, car tax, emails, shopping etc etc). Im sure if you could control the internet with a big ON/OFF switch everything would come to a standstill and you would rule the World. Its probably on more than a few rogue Heads of States agendas for the not so distant future
) but relatively speaking, in the 'a bit affordable' category
