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Originally Posted by Slava
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I'm looking at buying a vehicle and am just wondering how this works on kijiji in the sense of getting it checked out and things like that? For my own protection I would want my mechanic to give a vehicle a once over before I buy, but obviously no one is going to want to give me the vehicle to just drive away.
Also wondering about what scams I might need to know about? I wouldn't even ask, but one vehicle I was looking at was reposted by someone saying the sellers were running a scam. How would that work? I obviously want to make sure I don't fall victim to something here!
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I was looking about six months ago for a car for my dad, and found it very discouraging; most of the sellers had multiple people interested in the car, and were not interested in taking the car to a mechanic (even if we paid for the checkup). In the end, we ended up buying a used car from a "reputable" dealer.
The one piece of advice I can give: if the price is way out of line with other similar cars, beware! We came across one guy selling a 2007 Toyota Matrix for a very good price; it turned out he was a mechanic who had bought a car from an auction (most likely written off), fixed it up and was trying to sell it. That incident was really the last straw for us, since I would have never picked that up, if it hadn't been for a friend of mine who noticed some inconsistencies and started asking more questions.
Good luck!