CarData scammers - phonecall online for you to listen to!!!!

[Guy]

well done for the call chap... if it stops people getting done over then I applaud you!

You can get into deep trouble for recording a conversation

you can...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/consumer_affairs/article2274275.ece

It is legal to record all calls without telling the person you speak to, provided that it is for your own use. But if you intend to share the call with a third party – for use as evidence in a small claims court, for instance – the failure to explain that you are taping the conversation at the start of the call could lead to a civil prosecution.

however... I think you'd only get into big trouble if you were ordered to stop recording calls and didn't

i must be in here somewhere... http://www.seg.co.uk/telecomm/record.htm but tbh i cbf to read it

[Uruk Hai]

These scams are as old as the hills, I had calls from people telling me they had buyers lined up when I was selling my MK1 RS2000 and that was 18 years ago. All I did was lead them on saying I was interested, kept them on the phone for ages and let them phone me back loads of times, in the end they realised I was just wasting their time and money and never bothered me again.

[antogoof]

i had this a couple of months ago while selling my girlfriends car, it was in the auto trader for 3 weeks, they phoned me on the first week and i told them the car was sold, just to fob them off. then thay had the cheek to phone my girlfriend on the second week asking her why she had not removed the car from the trader, cheeky b**tards! there are so many of these kind of things out there, if they see you have something of value they want it! in my eyes its basically stealing

[Uruk Hai]

When they were calling me the guy I was talking to starting trying to push me into signing up with them and after a while he was saying "we've phoned you several times now and as you now phone calls arent cheap" I said "you wrang me and if the cost of calls is so high why have you phoned me back so many times". When the penny dropped and he realised I wasnt gonna give them a penny he asked why I had strung them along for so long, I told him that nobody made him spend all that time on the phone to me and he p!ssed me off so I p!ssed him off in return. 

[Ashley]

re: recording conversations

I'm pretty sure if you want to use the call in court or anything legal related, you have to declare the recording at the beginning of the conversation and give the agent or whoever an option to either hand you on to a superior or end the call.

Does sound like you were owning her to be honest.. altho she did also sound like she'd heard it all before and had been given BS training

[kittie]

They never rang me when I sold my mk3 fezza for £250... maybe I could've got £2500!!

[jamie_pyrite]

I didn't think the Alpha Starlet part was fair, because she works for the company, she's not a car expert! (Although I had a bit of a laugh at it)

But the rest, sounds like a pure scam.