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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Just now, imagine Mary, buy something for your kids and
it's taken away from them before they even get a
chance to use it. Well, car sales gone wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
If you've got a story, share it with us, because
this one's not.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's actually this was on the news last week right
and Steve, who's in Sydney's West, decided his son's trying
to buy house right and he's struggling to get into
the market, so he wanted to help him with his
deposit by selling his prized Holden gts worth one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars. It's a collector's item, meticulously maintained,
(00:32):
kept garage, and he listed on Facebook marketplace. So this
dude who called himself Brendan, was interested in. They're chatting
and the interaction appeared to be quite routine and normal. However,
the situation took a really sinister turn when Brendan came
out to have a look at the car and he
claimed there was an issue with the car's bootlight, insisting
(00:55):
that it's only activated when the car was in gears.
So we asked Steve to go around the back of
the car while he he jumped in and you know,
pulled the boot thing up mm and Steve's like, oh really,
he said, no, the bootlight's coming on.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
He's sure.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And then as he said that, he put it in
gear and then it reversed and the car was going
forward and back a bit, and he said, oh, okay,
no worries, all right, I'll go check it. So anyway,
as Steve's gone around the back, leaned into the boot
and he's actually got CCTV footage out in front of
his house, he can see all this. Actually, next minute,
as he's gone around the back, Brendan or whatever his
name is in the front, pops her into gear and
(01:33):
pull off. He goes, takes off with the car gone
straight up the streets. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Gone, he can come back.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
So no, no, Steve said, he didn't take left turn
around the corner. No yui, no, no, no. He's standing
there in the middle of the street, stunned. He's holding
gts worth one hundred and twenty thousand. Wow, that it's
been his prized possession. Decided to sell it to help
out his kids. This dude has you know, given him
this story, which I mean, yeah, of course someone had
say that, you'd think, right, sure will you do that?
(01:59):
I'm standing you wouldn't think right, No, this dude's just
taken off in his Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Surely they'll be able to track that car down.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I don't know, Pearl Steve, he said. I Fraser couldn't
believe that he'd done it. He said, he seemed like
such a nice person.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Sure don't they all?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Because of conn artists are the nicest people you would know.
Oh so nice.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I mean, you can't go sell it on marketplace we
you know carsales dot com. Oh there it is. Well,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I mean, maybe he just wants it for himself. Who
knows why people do things and steel things? But oh mate,
that's terrible. So it was his prize possession. He's decided
to sell it and go. I'm going to help out
my son here because he's trying to say for his
deposit Sydney. Hello, good luck, mine house in Sydney.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
First time by it, ah, big time.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So and now now Brendan has sped off in the invents.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
He's taken off with his briefcase one hundred and twenty
grand pretty pretty much exactly much. Sam's in Woodroy. What's
your story, Sam?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh? Probably about twenty years ago, we got my mum
Los Rago band from a wrecking yard, thinking, oh yeah,
or good, nice sheep car, but we'll fix it all
up and make it good for red though they were
actually going to crush the car probably an about a
week if it hadn't sold. Yeah, we got it all
picked up like new everything, took it to the transport
to get it registered, and it turns out that it
was stolen prior of being sold to the wrecking yard,
(03:11):
and they took it office and pounded it for three
months until the police gets sorted out with the previous
owners that had it stolen. And luckily they say, yeah, no, no.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's all good.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
She's done the right thing just to give her the
car because they'd obviously been paid out by insurance.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
The whole thing. That was lucky.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Then I think she's getting a new car sorted out.
You guys are oh see, this is a thing you
don't know, No, you just don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
And plent a decent amount of money like new tires,
light cracked and everything being an older car and yeah,
so that's all part from things inside it. And okay,
if your phoner wants it back, I want to strip
all apart.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm glad it worked out. Thanks Sam, thank you very
much for letting me share Mels and Agnes waters with
a partner. Terry listening to us on iHeartRadio, what's your story?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
My neighbor A couple of years ago, her son was
trying to sell a motorbike. They had someone come over
and check it all out and that, and he was
just such an easy gun and guy, this goes as well.
Look said, can I take us for a test time?
And yeah, sure, yeah, test drive alright, take I don't
know where, don't know where it ended up. I don't
(04:23):
even know if you got it back. Really took off
with it.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
He got on it and took off.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah. And I mean this guy didn't even have anything
to chase him with, you.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Know, his bike.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I mean, where's I do wonder about that? If you
ever sold motorbikes, how do you do it? Because obviously
you know, sometimes you can't go on with them. Or
maybe he should have just said, you can test drive
it up and down the street mate where I can
see you. But I guess you're right now. Once they're on,
pull off, they can go. Well.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
My partner, he owns motorbikes. And he said that like
he's here now, he's just there.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I remember remember selling a motorbike. Well I last before
I got back on motorbikes again.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
That this guy just taken for tessa and minutes and
starting the panic.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
This is in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
He came back, Thank god.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Thank god could do it nowadays.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
No, well, this is it. Well, I don't know how
you do it. Do you take their license or a
deposit or something happened, because.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I mean you'd have to do something.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Take at least twenty percent fair exchange. If they don't
come back, you take that. Thanks. Well, okay, this is it.
That's it's.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, I've got to buy a car.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I think I'll just start walking.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I don't know, ragoull be up in the one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
G No, I don't think it matters, you know is
I think it's just relative that you buy something and
you just never know where it's been or what the
story is. I mean, this is just awful, though. This
guy's legitimate to sell his and this dude's just taken
off in it.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
If you've seen it on fast sales.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Police are warning people with online marketplace like Facebook and
other places like that. It's becoming very popular with thieves
and scammers, so just yet, guys, be careful, do your research,
Just now, imagine Mary, buy something for your kids and
it's taken away from them before they even get a
chance to use it. Well, car sales gone wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
If you've got a story, share it with us, because
this one's not.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's actually this was on the news last week right
and Steve, who's in Sydney's West, decided his son's trying
to buy house right and he's struggling to get into
the market, so he wanted to help him with his
deposit by selling his prized Holden gts worth one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars. It's a collector's item, meticulously maintained,
(00:32):
kept garage, and he listed on Facebook marketplace. So this
dude who called himself Brendan, was interested in. They're chatting
and the interaction appeared to be quite routine and normal. However,
the situation took a really sinister turn when Brendan came
out to have a look at the car and he
claimed there was an issue with the car's bootlight, insisting
(00:55):
that it's only activated when the car was in gears.
So we asked Steve to go around the back of
the car while he he jumped in and you know,
pulled the boot thing up mm and Steve's like, oh really,
he said, no, the bootlight's coming on.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
He's sure.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And then as he said that, he put it in
gear and then it reversed and the car was going
forward and back a bit, and he said, oh, okay,
no worries, all right, I'll go check it. So anyway,
as Steve's gone around the back, leaned into the boot
and he's actually got CCTV footage out in front of
his house, he can see all this. Actually, next minute,
as he's gone around the back, Brendan or whatever his
name is in the front, pops her into gear and
(01:33):
pull off. He goes, takes off with the car gone
straight up the streets. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Gone, he can come back.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
So no, no, Steve said, he didn't take left turn
around the corner. No yui, no, no, no. He's standing
there in the middle of the street, stunned. He's holding
gts worth one hundred and twenty thousand. Wow, that it's
been his prized possession. Decided to sell it to help
out his kids. This dude has you know, given him
this story, which I mean, yeah, of course someone had
say that, you'd think, right, sure will you do that?
(01:59):
I'm standing you wouldn't think right, No, this dude's just
taken off in his Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Surely they'll be able to track that car down.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I don't know, Pearl Steve, he said. I Fraser couldn't
believe that he'd done it. He said, he seemed like
such a nice person.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Sure don't they all?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Because of conn artists are the nicest people you would know.
Oh so nice.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I mean, you can't go sell it on marketplace we
you know carsales dot com. Oh there it is. Well,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I mean, maybe he just wants it for himself. Who
knows why people do things and steel things? But oh mate,
that's terrible. So it was his prize possession. He's decided
to sell it and go. I'm going to help out
my son here because he's trying to say for his
deposit Sydney. Hello, good luck, mine house in Sydney.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
First time by it, ah, big time.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So and now now Brendan has sped off in the invents.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
He's taken off with his briefcase one hundred and twenty
grand pretty pretty much exactly much. Sam's in Woodroy. What's
your story, Sam?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh? Probably about twenty years ago, we got my mum
Los Rago band from a wrecking yard, thinking, oh yeah,
or good, nice sheep car, but we'll fix it all
up and make it good for red though they were
actually going to crush the car probably an about a
week if it hadn't sold. Yeah, we got it all
picked up like new everything, took it to the transport
to get it registered, and it turns out that it
was stolen prior of being sold to the wrecking yard,
(03:11):
and they took it office and pounded it for three
months until the police gets sorted out with the previous
owners that had it stolen. And luckily they say, yeah, no, no.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's all good.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
She's done the right thing just to give her the
car because they'd obviously been paid out by insurance.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
The whole thing. That was lucky.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Then I think she's getting a new car sorted out.
You guys are oh see, this is a thing you
don't know, No, you just don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
And plent a decent amount of money like new tires,
light cracked and everything being an older car and yeah,
so that's all part from things inside it. And okay,
if your phoner wants it back, I want to strip
all apart.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm glad it worked out. Thanks Sam, thank you very
much for letting me share Mels and Agnes waters with
a partner. Terry listening to us on iHeartRadio, what's your story?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
My neighbor A couple of years ago, her son was
trying to sell a motorbike. They had someone come over
and check it all out and that, and he was
just such an easy gun and guy, this goes as well.
Look said, can I take us for a test time?
And yeah, sure, yeah, test drive alright, take I don't
know where, don't know where it ended up. I don't
(04:23):
even know if you got it back. Really took off
with it.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
He got on it and took off.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah. And I mean this guy didn't even have anything
to chase him with, you.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Know, his bike.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I mean, where's I do wonder about that? If you
ever sold motorbikes, how do you do it? Because obviously
you know, sometimes you can't go on with them. Or
maybe he should have just said, you can test drive
it up and down the street mate where I can
see you. But I guess you're right now. Once they're on,
pull off, they can go. Well.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
My partner, he owns motorbikes. And he said that like
he's here now, he's just there.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I remember remember selling a motorbike. Well I last before
I got back on motorbikes again.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
That this guy just taken for tessa and minutes and
starting the panic.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
This is in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
He came back, Thank god.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Thank god could do it nowadays.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
No, well, this is it. Well, I don't know how
you do it. Do you take their license or a
deposit or something happened, because.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I mean you'd have to do something.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Take at least twenty percent fair exchange. If they don't
come back, you take that. Thanks. Well, okay, this is it.
That's it's.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, I've got to buy a car.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I think I'll just start walking.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I don't know, ragoull be up in the one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
G No, I don't think it matters, you know is
I think it's just relative that you buy something and
you just never know where it's been or what the
story is. I mean, this is just awful, though. This
guy's legitimate to sell his and this dude's just taken
off in it.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
If you've seen it on fast sales.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Police are warning people with online marketplace like Facebook and
other places like that. It's becoming very popular with thieves
and scammers, so just yet, guys, be careful, do your research,
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