Scammers on RacingJunk

Been calling on a few deals I found on RacingJunk, only to find out they are all scammers. The ones I found the people selling parts barely speak English, their phone number is on the West Coast and the part they are selling is on the East Coast. If in question, don't tell them where you live and try to setup a meeting place to pickup the part and you will never hear from them again. Emailed a few concerns to Racing Junk and the ads were removed in a couple days. Don't want to see anybody get burned.

About half the inquiries I get for a car I have for sale there are absolute scams.
Also get a bit of that on Cars On Line.

There ought to be a bounty on scammers.

Yes.. a few months ago I was helping a friend sell his race car.. most of the inquiries were scams.. give me your address and I will send payment to you and will arrange shipping , it happened about five times. I had a few parts for sale on there also same thing. I am putting my 08 H.Q.C. up for sale in a few weeks I am going to be very careful where I list it.

Craigslist is just as bad. Listed my daughters 2014 Mustang for sale last fall. ONLY scammers. Finally just let the Cadillac dealership that my son is a sales guy at buy it off me. Gave me better than Blue Book cause they said its HARD getting quality used cars.

Read a story about a gal in LA that had to close her restaurant. Said the industry is plagued with "friendly fraud". Said so many people would order carry out then call to complain for a refund or dispute on their credit card. Said the final straw was a $700 order that the customer disputed on their credit card and got a refund.

I barely sell anything on Ebay anymore. SO MUCH dishonesty. I was selling Honda taillight gaskets. Used to be a great market. I quit selling them on there. Literally HALF the people were thieves. Hate to use a broad brush but one guy I actually called and spoke to, last name was Fong or Phang and most of my losses were similar names, said something to the effect, in broken English, "You stupid Americans. We not pay". Nice. Welcome to the country. Yep, we are stupid Americans.

didn't even know that racing junk is still out there

I think it's safe to say there are no For Sale websites that don't attract scammers.

I agree there have always been "bad guys" but I'd say in the past couple years, WHEW, off the charts. Something has changed. Not just a minor uptick. You'd have to sell online regularly to feel it.

Ebay caves in to buyers and allows "free" returns for any reason on the sellers dime. Allows Chinese scammers to "scrape" and copy listings and sell with free shipping all the way from China. Ebay sucks so bad. I don't even know why I list anything on there. I have a 40 day handling time and use Ebays UPS retail rates that are much higher than my negotiated rates on my online store.

Amazon, same as above. I wouldnt even sell on there. That Bezos is the devil himself.

"Scraping" is a HUGE problem. One Mopar parts reseller in Australia had to splash a message on his websites home page that if you don't order from his URL is probably a bogus website. I was "scarpers" from Pakistan on my website constantly. MINE. We are a tiny company. They copy all our info (scrape) and create a bogus website falsly "selling" our products only to take money and never deliver. I have only had one complaint so far. Guy complained he paid and I didn't deliver. Told him I had NO RECORD of a sale from him. So he sends me a link to a scraped site. Duh! Gotta be smarter now when buying online.

Credit card companies suck. They side with THIER customers and throw businesses under the bus.

I'm very lucky that 99.99% of the people I deal with are like the guys on here, solid, decent car guys.

Anything I sell/offer online, I will only accept/entertain an offer if the buyer is standing right there, everything else is a waste of my time.

Most common line I hear on an offered item, "is item still available?" My reply, "why do you ask?" NOBODY responds

they know the law will never go after them anymore is what changed....thank your lie-beral politicians..

Or your GQP politicians who deregulated the banks.

Explain how that led to the situation at hand?

I’m wondering the same thing. It seems DrCharles is a bit confused.