WARNING FOR GUMTREE
This is a long one but bear with me.
I am trying to find a replacement caravan for my 1990 ABI, nothing wrong with it I just want a fixed bed. So when I saw a 2008 Bailey Pageant Burgundy on Gumtree for £5500 I thought I had found what I wanted. I replied to the ad asking if the caravan was still for sale. the reply asked for my e-mail address so the vendor could send me more details. A couple of emails went back and forth with the vendor being really pushy. His name was Peter Larson and he had apparently gone through a divorce and was now working on the North Sea rigs, so viewing the caravan was out of the question. But he told me, e-bay operate a scheme where you deposit the money with them, have the caravan on 3 days approval and they release the money when I tell them I am happy. He pays (£100) to get the caravan to me and same if it is returned. I received an invoice from 'E-Bay' which immediately looked iffey. so I contacted e-bay who said they do not operate any such scheme and confirmed this after i forwarded the invoice to them. when I told Mr Larson that I was not proceeding with the sale because of this, and sent him e-bays reply the cheeky so and so then offered for me to make a deposit using paypal and paying COD. I don't think so. But back on Gumtree there was another Pageant Burgundy 2010 this time for an unbelkievable price, so I tried it to see if he was at it again and sure enough I had an identical reply when I asked if the Caravan was still available. The caravans are not listed as being in Scotland. The first one was Cambridge the second one was Essex, making the usual people to reply too far away to get to Scotland when he declares the 'real' location. Unless you actually follow the scam through and lose money the Police are not interested.
Please let everybody know about this scam in case he moves away from selling non existant Bailey Pageant Burgundys