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Old 4th July 2014, 11:21 AM
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Default What's going on here. £8k D3 S8!

Has anyone seen this car?

http://loot.com/motoring/cars/wc1v/2...0ad/(f)/search

If its for real, its a bargain
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Old 4th July 2014, 11:25 AM
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Someone is seriously desperate for the cash, or forgot the 1 in front of the £8000k
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Old 4th July 2014, 11:33 AM
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Stinky.

The road tax expiration date in the ad doesn't match the date that the DVLA gives for the S8 with that plate.

If you google some of the text that's in the ad, amongst all the scraping sites that refer you back to this ad, you find a May 2014 autotrader ad. The page itself on AT has expired, but the cached version is still turning up in google's results. My guess is that the text has been copied and adjusted and it's a scam.

ETA: the last 3/4 of the text bears a remarkable resemblance to this ad: http://www.decassoncars.com/flyer.php?id=5478 (for some ****box Honda).

We'll find out, as I've sent the "seller" a message!

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Old 7th July 2014, 07:52 AM
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SCAM ! They want a 1000 deposit before viewing !
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Old 7th July 2014, 11:37 AM
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Really? Did you get a reply? My enquiry was ignored...Boo hoo!
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Old 7th July 2014, 09:26 PM
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A deposit before you view. Really? Would anyone fall for that?
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Old 8th July 2014, 11:26 PM
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Well .. I do offen wander who is silly enough to fork out that kind of cash without viewing
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Old 7th August 2014, 08:30 PM
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I was looking an Black S8 D3's before I bought mine and I found two in one location on an 07 and the other a 57 and they were both £13k and it took me all my time to get him to that price verbally over the phone before I made the five hundred mile round trip to view them both... So £8k is defiantly a scam, or it's stolen or it belongs to a bloke who's still at work and his wife is at home reading through his private Facebook messages to all his female friend and she needs an £8k escape fund Apart from that I can't see how it can be real... Hell I'd buy it and scrap it for that money, well after raping it for the B&O obviously

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Old 7th September 2014, 09:42 AM
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Reported it to Gumtree.
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Old 7th September 2014, 11:43 AM
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Just did a search for Audi A8, there are several obvious scams which stick out like sore thumbs. There is also a 2011 D4 for 10K for example.
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