Virgin car? (LAC+funny)

[Dan DiBiase]

Brett Dikeman <quattro at frank.mercea.net> wrote: 
On Dec 14, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Tihol Tiholov wrote:

> Sorry for the waste of BW but since list content lately's been a  
> little off
> anyway, here are some funny replies I got from scammers.  Seems  
> like the
> Vaterland is not immune to scams, adds were on mobile dot de.
>
> This thing below came in twice, identical, though the cars I asked
> innocently about were different, except for being A4 Avant Q and with
> identical low prices:

We get these all the time on craigslist.  The location turns out to  
be somewhere in eastern europe, and there's a sad story about how the  
car is in storage for one reason or another, blah blah.  Price is  
usually well under half fair market value, sometimes as low as 1/10th.

I responded to an ad on CL for a 2002 Volvo S40 (looking for a first car for my son) listed for $3,500 with 65k miles. Took a day or two for the gentleman to respond because, as he said, he has been spending time with his daughter in the hospital - she is having heart problems, poor dear. Turns out the car is in Croatia with him, even though Carfax indicates it's registered in Pennsylvania. He never responded back when I asked about that.

BTW, I have an open Carfax account, until mid-January, should anyone need it. 

Dan D
'04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
Central NJ USA