In reply to 84FSP:
Good luck!
In reply to 84FSP:
Good luck!
Appreciate it sir, I will certainly need all the luck I can get.
Touchdown in Charlotte and waiting on a connection to Batan Rouge.
Nurturing positive thoughts about a 1.5hr side trip to The Big Easy for a Poboy in my new ride...
Thinking positive non-scammy thoughts. A the vetting possible of this random guy has been completed. I'm at approximately 50% confidence...
Can you please keep us updated in real-time, because A) I'm completely obsessed with 'fly and drive' car sales, B) I love CTSvW's, and C) We are taught as Americans to be supremely impatient...?
Sending positive vibes your way. Hopefully its your unicorn!
Just left there this past week, I am pretty sure I drove by that place as it was loaded with my type of cars
Good luck and do let us all know how it goes!
For what's it's worth, I did way less due diligence on either my 911 or the R63 and both of those have turned out great. I think most of the time these things work well and we just hear about the bad incidents more.
Be sure to use cruise on the way home (buttons on the left spoke of the steering wheel) these cars build speed at an absolutely absurd rate.
Appreciate the kind words all. I'm currently on the tarmac in Charlotte waiting to take off. The passengers are a strange mixture of FEMA, Red Cross, and Journalists. Apparently Trump is making an appearance at the flooding which brings out the fox news types. Will keep you posted.
In reply to 84FSP:
Bonus points for a smokey burnout vid around Trump's limo. 
84FSP wrote:Mike wrote: Well, just tried again. Nobody there and the CTS is not there. I think this is my last opportunity for a while.I'll be in the area tomorrow, hopefully, I'd love to meet up and buy dinner/beers if you can? Understand completely if you can't.
This weekend is triple booked and I live an hour to the east, but one of the possibilities includes BR. I'll PM if I'll be in town.
Best of luck! Also, the drive to New Orleans is a doddle. I say do it. I might be at NOLA for a Delta SCCA autox tomorrow morning. That's just outside of NO proper.
Others mentioned bringing a gun. I never felt like I needed one, but everything valuable or desirable should go in your trunk, out of sight. I worry more about property crime.
Your trip home probably will take you past, or very near the Mercedes plant and museum in Vance AL, the Nissan plant in Smyrna TN, and Corvette in Bowling Green.
So fears confirmed. Floyd is a scammer that never had the car. Hanging out at his place of business running off his customers now. Have Police Fraud Report filed. Have his home address and thinking about ubering over to talk and get his picture for my coming internet and better business bureau flaming.
In reply to 84FSP:
E36 M3. I'm so sorry.
Ugh.
Sorry.
I don't get this though. As a scammer, what exactly was he trying to accomplish by advertising a car he didn't have at a price he couldn't acquire?
What a mother berkeleyer. 
Queue the Hennessy Honda thread...
I had both eyes open coming into this, it's on me. I do intend to make Floyd's life difficult as long as possible though. Hanging at his place running off his customers...
xflowgolf wrote: Ugh. Sorry. I don't get this though. As a scammer, what exactly was he trying to accomplish by advertising a car he didn't have at a price he couldn't acquire?
The only thing that can be figured is he planned to scam the deposit (which he tried to collect but never got)
Please don't get shot over some frequent flyer miles
AngryCorvair wrote: Please don't get shot over some frequent flyer miles
Yeah, this. If you're going to play hardball, do so from a safe distance. That's a shame, and just reinforces the "if it's too good..." as well as "some people suck."
Cooper_Tired wrote:xflowgolf wrote: Ugh. Sorry. I don't get this though. As a scammer, what exactly was he trying to accomplish by advertising a car he didn't have at a price he couldn't acquire?The only thing that can be figured is he planned to scam the deposit (which he tried to collect but never got)
I mean I get that... and I could see running that scheme as an entirely fake online front. But this is a real business with an actual location, with the same name.
Somebody is bound to actually try to show up to your business to buy one of the cars.
I mean if you're going to setup a fake online collection and try to scam people out of deposits, you probably shouldn't lead them to your actual place of business.
Criminals are stupid I guess though. It's just amazingly short sighted.
As soon as the "seller" knew the buyer was serious and doing his homework, why would he agree to PPI or whatever? They should've smelled trouble and told him the car was sold already or something. I'm overthinking this I guess.
Wow, I don't see the point of scamming when you have an actual physical place of business. Does he have the other cars advertised on their site? I mean they have Panamericas' Lexis IS F types, Mercs, etc.... doe he have any of those cars?
Agree with Angry Corvair, don't get shot but he does have it coming if he was trying to scam you and you were traveling so far to pick up the car sight unseen.
Ugh, that blows. I don't know how people like this can sleep at night.
dherr wrote: Wow, I don't see the point of scamming when you have an actual physical place of business. Does he have the other cars advertised on their site? I mean they have Panamericas' Lexis IS F types, Mercs, etc.... doe he have any of those cars? Agree with Angry Corvair, don't get shot but he does have it coming if he was trying to scam you and you were traveling so far to pick up the car sight unseen.
There was an S class behind the place, a 7 series out front, a late Hyundai Elantra hybrid that looked to be quite new, and I vaguely remember an SUV - maybe an Escalade, in front. No Panamera that I recall.
Well crap.
Sorry to hear that, must have been such a let down. I hate shadiness. Maybe you calling him on it could help prevent it happening to someone else down the road.
The scam was the downpayment he kept asking me to give to hold the car. The funny part is that I normally would do a downpayment but he wouldn't be reasonable on how he would accept funds so I didn't.
If he sent you an e mail is that wire fraud?
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