Crowdfunding for Scams

[puppet]

A 14 year old lad has lost his £8400 life savings buying a John Deere unseen on Ebay only to find there is no tractor. They blamed Covid restrictions for not seeing it but how urgent was the purchase?
On a positive note he has been compensated £7000 so far by a crowdfunding campaign.
Begs a few questions as to (yet again) buying machinery unseen, how he got such a sum at his age, how his parents sanctioned the purchase and a demonstration that in spite of everything we are a caring society.
The cynical will also look at reporting a purchase scam could be a good introduction to a crowdfunding scam too.

 

[Wombat]

Good life lesson for him there

 

[betweenthelines]

Why is Covid a block on viewing a tractor? You can still travel for work & business. Or ask someone else more local to the machine to check it out-as many on TFF do.

Most scams rely on greed or gulliblity

Personally I fail to see why people buy farm machinery from often hundreds of miles away, none of it is unique, wait a while and the same, or kit able to do the same job will be available locally-without the haulage bill!

 

[thorpe]

A 14 year old lad has lost his £8400 life savings buying a John Deere unseen on Ebay only to find there is no tractor. They blamed Covid restrictions for not seeing it but how urgent was the purchase?
On a positive note he has been compensated £7000 so far by a crowdfunding campaign.
Begs a few questions as to (yet again) buying machinery unseen, how he got such a sum at his age, how his parents sanctioned the purchase and a demonstration that in spite of everything we are a caring society.
The cynical will also look at reporting a purchase scam could be a good introduction to a crowdfunding scam too.

at 14 he has started to learn i hope he goes a long way in his future , he wont make that mistake again, good luck!

 

[7610 super q]

I thought a young lad get fleeced from his life savings on a Massey tractor scam for the same amount recently ?

 

[balerman]

I thought a young lad get fleeced from his life savings on a Massey tractor scam for the same amount recently ?

That was someone older that should have known better.I’m delighted for this young lad,I don’t think greed was involved here at all,he will have learned a valuable lesson too.I hope he does really well in future.

 

[7610 super q]

Maybe it's the same lad, and he just happens to be leaning on a Massey......

https://planetradio.co.uk/pirate-fm/local/news/tractor-scam-victim/

 

[Renaultman]

Why is Covid a block on viewing a tractor? You can still travel for work & business. Or ask someone else more local to the machine to check it out-as many on TFF do.

Most scams rely on greed or gulliblity

Personally I fail to see why people buy farm machinery from often hundreds of miles away, none of it is unique, what a while and the same, or kit able to do the same job will be available locally-without the haulage bill!

I regularly buy stuff from all over the country, don't pay for it until it is on the collecting truck or trailer though