They steal your car …
Why oh why did I not read these yesterday!!!!
I have fallen for the scammers also!!!
So I had a car needing to be scrapped and thought I’d use a car scrap comparison site. One offered me £350, I thought happy days and clicked on to be put through to a company. Friendly lady answered and said hello when picking up the phone, odd I thought so asked what company they were. She said scrap car comparison. Anyway cutting to the chase she booked in my car for collection the following day between 10-12pm. Saying truck driver will call when he’s on his way and he will deal with all the paperwork on the day. At 11.35am the truck arrived not having called first, therefore you have no paper trail at all. I never received any email from the company even though you give your email address.
Man was very nice didn’t really explain too much just said I’d receive my full payment by 5pm and stamped my log book…. All done, although I had alarm bells, being female and on my own I didn’t feel comfortable in what I’d just done.
Back indoors I googled the best breakers scrap yard stamp on my log book to find it doesn’t exist. Panic kicked in googled the original telephone number I had called and the company turned out to be scrap compare!!
Lo and behold no money arrived in my account that day!!
Forward to today I called scrap compare to ask for my money and apparently they also couldn’t give me the full £350 as when a mechanic looked over the car it needed a new gear box. This is completely untrue, and could now only offer me £50!!!
Having read these comments before calling them for my money I was ready for this. I asked for the car back which they say they cannot do as they sell it to the breakers yard. They give you an email address to get in touch with them. I told them the breakers yard is fake which they deny as they deal with them all the time. They say because the car is not in full working condition they cannot pay out…. Funny as your selling it as scrap, never heard so much rubbish. Chased them all day for my money, as effectively they’ve just stolen my car!!! Finally got a payment of £50 at 4.30pm to find out that your car gets taken to a little yard in Hertford, it’s all a front so not use them. They are nothing but thieves!!!!!
I also have every conversation I had with them on video