I am considering buying an ATV sight unseen for a very good price. The seller wants to work the transaction through a third party/service called www.tradersonlineescrow.com. This service would hold my payment in escrow, the ATV will be shipped to me and then I will have an agreed upon amount of time to trial the bike. If I like it and want to keep it, I email the seller and the service and payment is released to the seller. If I don't like it, I ship it back at my expense and once he receives the ATV and inspects to see that it's not been damaged or anything, he emails the service and me and my original payment is refunded to me.

The ATV is a 2002 Yamaha Grizzly 660 with 663 miles and around 68 hours on it. There are a few extras that come with it, a plow is one of them. The price is incredible at under $3000.

Anyone ever complete a transaction similar to this? Thoughts and advice are appreciated.

Thanks

 

If it sounds too good to be true, it's probably a scam. Search for scams, and you'll see many things about deals like this.

Personally, I wouldn't do it.

Where is the Grizzly shipping from? If it's out of the U.S., I guarantee it's a scam.

 

The link you site is not accessible (at least on my computer). There are alot of scams on the internet, especially on ebay. The old addage "If it looks to good to be true, it probably is", probably applies in this case. Something is wrong with the deal! Hope I am wrong - - - so be very cautious if you decide to proceed. Good Luck!

 

I think he meant this site.

 

scam scam scam

hope you didnt do it

 

hi couldnt help but to warn you of the scams on ebay with the grizzly quads. i recently sold a 2002 grizzyly on ebay the buyer called and we conversed on the phone the day after the auction ended he came and checked up the bike picked it up and went home he lived about 250miles from me. when he got home he sent me a email to another link on ebay where the grizzly i had just sold him was up for auction for a buy it now of 2500.00 (he had just paid me 4350.00) the guy that had this new auction was from the united kingdom. i reported this to ebay and havent heard anything from them as of today (21\2weeks later) BUYER BEWARE OF SCAMS THEY ARE FOR REAL BECAREFUL!!!!!!!!!


ebay item number for the quad i sold is 2455537104
ebay item number for the quad that is a fraud is 2457390117
the somebuck even used my pics for his auction now how tacky is that lol
AGAIN BUYER BEWARE CONTACT YOUR SELLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAKING

 

Hehe, KingKevin should post his Grizzly's pic so wspstopgo can see if it's that one or not. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

Thanks all of you for the advice. Funny how compelling something like this can be. This is NOT an ebay deal. this guy has this ATV and 2 others for sale on the atvtraderonline.com website. And again, he wants to do it through the escrow service which does protect the buyer at least a little.

That all being said, I do agree that it sounds to good to be true. I have not agreed to buy from him at this time. I am still questioning him hard on the details regarding these bikes. I'll see if he answers my questions, so far he has actually provided me some additional info and pictures.

I'll let everyone know how this goes.

Thanks,

dave

 

What has been foundout about TRaderonlineescrow?

 

ATVTradersonline is a known scam operation. I will guarantee the escrow service is too.
There are dozens of complaints with various
government agencies filed on them. You give them a dime and you have lost it.
It is operated out of Spain with the sole purpose of conning Americans.