How to avoid falling victim to online car sales scams
Mellanie Matos and her husband, Anderson Macena, were out $6,000 after buying a van that needed thousands of dollars of transmission work. She was going to use it to start a mobile dog grooming business. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS)
Published March 13. 2021 12:01AM
By Ron Hurtibise, South Florida Sun Sentinel
Larry Hoover has bought a lot of cars sight unseen off the eBay auction website over the years and never had a major problem. “It never crossed my mind that they’d try to defraud me,” he said.
And then the Phoenix-area resident made a deal with a South Florida used car dealership that advertised a 2002 Cadillac El Dorado as being in perfect mechanical condition. The dealer persuaded Hoover to wire the $6,500 purchase price directly to him so he could avoid seller fees charged by eBay and PayPal.
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Sun Sentinel 2/28/2021 Ron Hurtibise, South Florida Sun Sentinel © Carline Jean / South Florida Sun Sentinel/South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS Mellanie Matos and her husband, Anderson Macena, were out $6,000 after buying a van that needed thousands of dollars of transmission work. She was going to use it to start a mobile dog grooming business.
Larry Hoover has bought a lot of cars sight unseen off the eBay auction website over the years and never had a major problem. “It never crossed my mind that they’d try to defraud me,” he said.