![]() ![]() It turned out that the thief didn’t own the vehicle and had inflated his feedback rating through the use of false identities, he said. Matt Sabatini, a banker and former car dealer from Wichita, Kan., said he was conned out of a $17,400 down payment in an auction on eBay Motors, the vehicle division of the vast online marketplace, by a seller with a stellar “feedback” rating and an apparently clean title to an H2 Hummer. “They know not to buy from those shady dealers in their own town, but they’re lining up on the Internet to buy from dealers in other towns where nobody will do business with them.”įreelance scam artists also prey on trusting buyers. “In any town, there’s always a car dealer that everyone knows not to deal with,” said Oklahoma City attorney Louis Green, who has represented several clients who sued over what they said were misrepresented vehicles purchased online. But while consumers and ethical auto dealers have benefited greatly from the technology, so too have crooked sellers, according to a review by of nearly two dozen lawsuits springing from online auto sales, and interviews with industry insiders.
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