Clareview Agri
- Thread starter JCfarmer
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spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
reading the FW is suspicious IMO
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
I've never been to Ireland, but I'm suprised how 'american' it looks there.
masseybreaker
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- Location
- wakefield
the mf 5465 is at ritchie bros maltby so its nearly usa
john432
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- Location
- Carmarthenshire
Just love these sites... Can almost afford a nice used tractor again
Hopefully you`re having a joke asking that question......
There`s some interesting grabs on those loader tractors!!!
john432
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- Location
- Carmarthenshire
Of course they're real, if you want to buy one, just make a what's app video call with the seller, seeing the said tractor, make a note of the registration number etc, hear it starting and running, any seller would be happy to oblige,and let us all know how you get on.
- Location
- South Wales UK
Anyone can video call and walk around anyones yard talking about anything possibly???
john432
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- Location
- Carmarthenshire
It's a bit difficult to do a walk around live video call if the tractor doesn't exist, or are photos of tractors from the states etc. Just to wind these scammers up, just asking for detailed photos of the PTO gear lever and shaft to ascertain PTO speeds etc, and how many spool valves, the manufactures name plate in detail and registration number .. try it...and they just will not reply to you. One scamming site sent me videos of a Fendt 516? if I remember, but not live videos. But they f****D up , there was video footage of 3 different tractors! When I pointed that out,. The conversation ended..
- Location
- South Wales UK
As said you could go into any dealers yard and do a video call with anyone in the World standing right next to items you don't own possibly???
john432
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- Location
- Carmarthenshire
Anything is possible, but your buying a tractor unseen, so a lot of extra things need to be checked out... You would for instance want to see the tractor start, move stop under your instructions, walk around to the engine filler and tell him to remove the cap while it's running to check for blowback, etc.. have you @Still Farming actually contacted one of these of many fake sites? Ask any awkward to them questions and your ignored.All they want is idiots who see a cheap tractor, and will immediately do a bank transfer, and expect the tractor delivered in the price. Seldomly will they answer a phone number, but they must be doing ok, because people's greed for a bargain .
- Location
- South Wales UK
Just go and see it, and do all checks accordingly there after?
Suffolk Serf
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- Location
- Bury/Thetford
I doubt that FW editorial staff have any input to the classifieds pages. They would be done by generic classified advertising people, possibly working on other titles from that publisher as well who wouldn’t have a clue about farm machinery. Might be an idea for all of that to change, maybe run FW classifieds past the expert scam spotters on TFF!
There will soon be more fake full page adverts in the FW comic than there are real ones
Is printing these obviously fake adverts due to lack of editorial staff, lack of income from genuine sources, or just greed?
There must be some serious money made by these scamming tw*ts because a full page ad. won`t come cheap....