Buy safe... what is it?

[ballmode]

Hi Chris,
There are 24000 miles on it, the bike is in great condition with only minor blemishes, never dropped. It has clear title and the price I will sell it for is $2,700.00 US, which includes the shipping's taxes and the insurance.
I live in Bloomington but currently I am with work in United Kingdom ( London ) for the next approximately 5 months, but I am using BuySafe services so I can sell the bike without any difficulty.
I left the bike in their custody in US before leaving overseas. They will take care of the shipping. Also there's a 14 days return policy included.
So if you want to purchase it, please let me know and I will explain you how BuySafe works and how we can proceed.
I am waiting your email.
Best Regards


That's what I got in responce to an email I asked about. This bike has too many miles on it so I'm going to pass on it, but is this a scam?

 

[Mermaidman]

Sounds like an escrow service, BUT scammers can create their own escrow services.

Did you search Google?

 

[Safeway]

You can't buy me!

 

[ballmode]

Well from what I'm taking in his email is that the bike is in Europe...

I send him money through this service and they ship it over to me?

Even if its not a scam, too risky for me anyways

Bike is a Yamaha R6

 

[Leeroy]

No, he's in Europe, Bike is supposedly in America, and he'll transfer it to you through his supposed escrow services. Go along with it for a laugh, usually the escrow service's website is blatantly obviously false, like a paypay site that has the address www.geocities.com/blahblahblah. Have some fun screwing him over.

 

[Syringer]

People go to Europe. People sell things from Europe. Not everyone posting from overseas is trying to scam you.

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: Syringer
People go to Europe. People sell things from Europe. Not everyone posting from overseas is trying to scam you.

All very true... a few years back when I sold electronics & computer parts I had some very large customers in Western Europe, the Middle East & (gasp!) even one in Ghana who made several 100K-plus purchases from me, HOWEVER every time we made them pay in advance by bank wire-transfer AND sat on the order for 2-3 weeks after the transfer was confirmed just to be safe.

Considering the circumstances of this deal, I'd be extremely cautious if I were you because once your money is gone overseas you have no recourse... personally I'd find somone who's here to sell you the bike themselves instead.