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Repossessed cars and buying from autousedcars.co.uk

I recently saw a website autousedcars.co.uk selling repossessed cars at unbelievable prices. Is this site genuine and are the cars safe to purchase from here?

Asked on 28 March 2011 by Steveen39293

Answered by Honest John
Some feedback:


Saw in Ask HJ this morning that there had been a couple of questions about
www.autoparks.co.uk / autousedcars.co.uk

autoparks.co.uk is identical to iomusedcars.com - a site that I
highlighted as a scam in January All they've done is change the logo. Take
a look at this:
www.gov.im/fsc/ViewNews.gov?page=lib/news/fsc/bogu...l

This is what I found for iomusedcars.com earlier in the year:

1. The domain was registered on 4 January 2011, yet they claim to have
been trading for seven years.
2. The IP is based in Malaysia, yet the company is in "The Isle of Man".
3. Theoretically, it is based on a business park on the Isle of Man.
There's no evidence for this and I can't find it listed at all. The phone
number does not work
4. It claims to be a PLC, but has no company number.
4. It looks to be a re-skin of Direct Cars PLC and accidentally makes
reference to it in several places. This site has previously been outed as
a scam site and its domain, the dodgy-sounding cars-direct-inc.com
no longer works.
5. It's "Internet certified", whatever that means.
6. The cars are too cheap.
7. It looks like escrow shipping fraud.
8. There's no trace of the company ever existing - it has no previous
mentions on Google.
9. The pictures look as though they've been nicked from legitimate adverts
on other sites.
10. When I asked them a few uncomfortable questions, they blocked my IP
address so I can't look at the site any more.
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