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Originally Posted by doubleurx
My brother just bought a modified EVO VIII with 9000 miles on Ebay for $10,000!...
He pays $4000 up front to Ebay's secure pay and then pays the remaining amount on delivery.
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I am not doubting you/him, but I spend quite a bit of time on ebay, and this sounds like it could be something to be very careful of. I suggest you discuss it further with him as it smells to good to be true, and some things sound wonky.
1. As far as I can tell, no Non-Salvage Evo has sold for under $18,9000 since 12/4. The only thing close is a very heavily damaged salvage one for $7,7000. Unless it was before then, then I do not beleive it happened on eBay as I do not beleive they remove any listings under 14 days old.
2. As far as I know, eBay does not have an escrow service, or a delivery service. The recomend escrow.com, and DAS auto shippers, but do not have ones of their own.
3. Even escrow.com requires 100% payment, and does not release the vehicle until they are received.
Hopefully it didn't start out as an auction that they then concluded off-line because then non of the ebay protections apply. I hope I am wrong, but this doesn't sound right.