smshirk

True, but he did seem real to me, and the car was beside a military chopper. I guess that could have been fake, the blue console does look weird

SH || NC

It never hurts to be skeptical, and rules are rules; it reads like any other Car FS scam I've seen. You can look at his other auctions as well via the eBay link posted.

Mark Wilson

Some of you guys are incredible jagoffs. This soldier posts a for sale because he's being deployed including a phone number - a freakin scammer will not do that. Then you beat on him for no membership and the conspiracies about the color of the console. For God's sake - the console is at a different angle than the dash and caught the light differently.

ArmyPorsche - I'd love to pay your membership fee to Rennlist to make these guys feel better about your ad. Please email me at mark@markwilson.net and let me know how I can do so. Thank you for serving my country and please be safe over there.

smshirk

+10

KelvinC

It's probably the lighting. The center console, and some dash and door sill pieces on the 99s came in a textured dark grey plastic, but could look blue depending on the lighting. To the touch the surface had much more "tooth" to it in comparison to the smoother black plastic that came on future Carreras.

IMO the grey plastic that was used was much nicer than the black plastic of future models. But unfortunately, this was also coupled by the use of a strange basketball-texture surfaces. Overall, the 99s just had a lot of strange textures used in the cabin. Gotta love the full leather though.

Wellardmac

Actually, you are incorrect. I read about a story last week with a Toyota, where the prospective purchaser did all the right things in terms of talking with the seller, etc. It was still a scam and she still lost her money when the car didn't show up as promised.

It's easy to be caught up with emotion, but the reality is that scammers are out there using this ruse and the foolish, or unaware, are easily separated from their money.

I did not say that this post was a scam, I just flagged that it was the same routine currently being used by scammers.

TRT41

Google the phone number, judge for yourself. The helicopter is a static display, also note the rocket fins too the left, also a static display.

PJorgen

Good catch on the static display. If you look closely, that does not appear to be a real flight line at a military base.

pat056

Rules? Who needs rules? AIG maybe??
If it was a real ad by a real military man, he would be glad to follow the rules.

gota911

and he also has a MB 320 for sale.

Wellardmac

...okay, so I got even more curious.

In one of the ads that came up on a google search of the phone number had an email address.

If you google the email address you see that this guy sells a lot of cars with a variety reasons as to why he's selling.

He has sold everything from Buicks to Ferraris. I was particularly impressed with this ad.

http://www.ferrarilife.com/classified/view.php?id=442

This one says that he owns an antique store (dated 10/21/08)

http://fortmyers.craigslist.org/cto/888345512.html


... it's interesting that as an army officer he can afford to buy and trade a ferrari and offer financing.

At the very least this is some that is trading a lot of cars.

Mark Wilson

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/9...ml#post2115927

This place is worse than an old beauty shop