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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: grantw on 13 October 2007, 12:06

Title: gti's on pistonheads.
Post by: grantw on 13 October 2007, 12:06: has anyone looked at the 2 mk5 gti's on pistonheads.. 7500 for a 2006 car? and 9000 for a 2005 car!! errors or scamming?
Title: Re: gti's on pistonheads.
Post by: Cass on 13 October 2007, 12:37: Look like scammers to me. Both adverts read like they have been partly copied/pasted from eBay. I have seen this type of advert many times recently where the listed price is alarmingly low. Bet if you contact the seller they will state that a '1' is missing from the price :wink:

Note that the seller has given a first name only and no telephone number is listed :angry:

You have been warned :rolleyes:

Cass

Edit - I have reported both these adverts to Pistonheads Admin
Title: Re: gti's on pistonheads.
Post by: parker2k6 on 13 October 2007, 23:05: yer they are scams there is one in my area middlesbrough a white one he wants Ã‚£7200, yet there is another man who has same pictures etc who wants Ã‚£15000 for it in same area and he left his phone number etc he also had it on ebay, and someone from london took his pics and said Ã‚£7000 i think they try and get a deposit first then do a runner.
Title: Re: gti's on pistonheads.
Post by: Cass on 15 October 2007, 15:57: Adverts now removed :wink:

Cass
Title: Re: gti's on pistonheads.
Post by: grantw on 15 October 2007, 21:54: great! looked a bit doddgy.. I wasnt looking for a car, just got one! but always window shopping!
Title: Re: gti's on pistonheads.
Post by: Hurdy on 15 October 2007, 23:32: If they were from the USA then the prices could be accurate (although I know they are not, before anyone starts :lipsrsealed:)

Current rate of exchange is 2.05 dollars per pound and the list price of a brand new GTI is $22,220 :shocked: or about Ã‚£11,000.

So used ones in the USA would be about the price of the ones listed :rolleyes:
Title: Re: gti's on pistonheads.
Post by: joesgti on 16 October 2007, 09:44: Quote from: Hurdy on 15 October 2007, 23:32
If they were from the USA then the prices could be accurate (although I know they are not, before anyone starts :lipsrsealed:)

Current rate of exchange is 2.05 dollars per pound and the list price of a brand new GTI is $22,220 :shocked: or about Ã‚£11,000.

So used ones in the USA would be about the price of the ones listed :rolleyes:
just us brits getting ripped off as usual!! gets me a bit angry actually!! :angry: