DavidMc Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 I have a car for sale and received this ad from Stephen Edwards, sounds like a scam , anyone dealt with this company? https://www.worldwideinvestmentcars.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padgett Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 Sounds like you give them $250 up front and a miracle happens. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Kingsley Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 I personally feel that as soon as the term investment is mentioned, I know automatically it's a scam. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhigdog Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 WOW! QUICK sale to foreign buyers with money just burning a hole in their pocket. They'll just shovel the quick bucks into your pocket. HURRY! HURRY! Do it NOW! WOW! Too good to be true. What do you think?.................Bob 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gossp Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 Clearly a scam... can’t even get names straight on the BBB webpage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3macboys Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 I just pulled up a Street View on Google and the address is a two story walk up in Vegas - sketchy story, I say put on the Sketchers and run! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padgett Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 Better to go to a church or charity of choice, donate $250, and pray for a sale. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gossp Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 For $250 you can ask others to help pray for your sale. I will pray for his sale for a hearty handshake and a cold beer. There is actually an old thread about this outfit. I have not found any reviews from anyone that actually paid the money.... but this has been going on a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classiclines Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 I realize not everyone using this forum is comfortable "surfing" the web, but, if you use a browser like Google, or Yahoo, or your favorite... enter this search string "worldwide investment cars .com" with spaces as shown. You should find more than one complaint or poor review ... the theme being "18 months later, still no sale"... David, you are very smart to ask for advice BEFORE plunking down any fee !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike6024 Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Ratings and Reviews for Worldwide Investment Cars Review: Car Dealership Service 6 years ago GUARENTEED TO HAVE SOLD MY LINCOLN WITHIN 30 DAYS, THAT WAS DECEMBER 2011, THIS MAKES OVER 1 1/2 YEARS WHEN IT WAS TO HAVE BEEN SOLD WITHIN 30 DAYS, WAS QUOTED SEVERAL TIMES "KISS IT GOOD BYE", THE KEY WORD HERE IS GUARENTEED SINCE NOVEMBER 2011 MANY/MANY PHONE CALLS AND Emails, AND HAVE BEEN TOLD MANY BUYERS SHOWING INTERESTS AND JUST WAIT, "I GUARENTEE IT WILL SELL" Review: Car Dealership Service 6 years ago Car sales website that is global. He Guarnetees in one month that car is going to be sold. He kept just telling me why the car did not sell. He had the car priced too high. After 18 months is has not been sold. He found my phone number in another source and he called me. He has a very bad attitude. He has called me names and accused me of inappropriate things when I was just checking on why the car has not been sold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C Carl Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 That is one overly long declaration of innocence. I have never seen such a long, repetitive, redundant, preemptive self defensive manifesto. Now, I am certainly no scholar. Much less one of the Shakespearian persuasion. But hidden in some convoluted backwater of my failing brain, I seem to remember a line about a lady protesting TOO much. I would love to be able to quote verbatim, but I can't even tell you what play it is from. Someone once told me that Shake' laid down some very perceptive insights into universal human behavior and traits. I don't know. Scholar, please ? - Carl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMc Posted February 6, 2020 Author Share Posted February 6, 2020 C Carl, I think the quote from Shakespeare you are looking for is "methinks the lady doth protest too much" if my memory from school a very long time ago is correct. Certainly fits all of that nonsense. Thanks for all the responses. It is as I expected, the company has an address and phone number which are probably real but the claims are unrealistic. I had no intention of donating $250 to this man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C Carl Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Thank you, DavidMc. Right. I think I do recognize that as exactly the precise verbiage. Good thing these guys didn't snare you. Might have made a protesting gentleman out of you. Certainly to no avail. Do you know what the play is ? - CC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMc Posted February 6, 2020 Author Share Posted February 6, 2020 Do you know what the play is ? No idea but I can't imagine there is money to be made in the way described on the web site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_S_in_Penna Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 (edited) I looked at the website, and its hyperbole smells bad to me. "Hundreds of rich overseas buyers in 92 countries." "We work with 957 classic car dealerships...59 languages." "Buying frenzy overseas." Oh, sure, Mr. Alleged Lying Fraudster. The "company" is probably one man and maybe a partner, and I guarantee they don't speak 59 languages! I see that the company goes out of its way to say, essentially, that all the complaints and bad comments about them aren't true! And since when is the worldwide market so spectacular? That may have been the perception some time ago, but now I hear but that other countries aren't doing so well when the U. S. economy is booming. "Buying frenzy," huh? Edited February 6, 2020 by John_S_in_Penna (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcarfudd Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Hamlet, Act III, Scene II, spoken by Queen Gertrude, Hamlet's mother: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." And no, I'm not a Shakespearian scholar. I Googled it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 (edited) Know how I know it's BS? 1961 Mercedes Roadster SOLD $ 232,000 1969 Oldsmobile 442 SOLD $ 58,700 1929 Cadillac Phaeton SOLD $ 227,000 1968 Jaguar SOLD $ 174,500 1972 Impala Convertible SOLD $ 49,500 1947 Ford Woody SOLD $ 132,000 Edited February 6, 2020 by Matt Harwood (see edit history) 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 24 minutes ago, Matt Harwood said: Know how I know it's BS? Just thinking about it from a math perspective, they seemed to have pulled off the maximum level of possible wrongness from the combination of price, picture, description. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gossp Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 That is a 47 ford that even a Chevy guy could love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimm63 Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 I thought a simple denial was sufficient to address any wrongdoing these days. Appears to work for some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avgwarhawk Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 "Hundreds of rich" is similar to "Your rich uncle in South Africa has died leaving you millions. Please forward banking info." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lump Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Love that "1969 Oldsmobile 442". Wonder if it is the "Judge" model? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripwire Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 There's a discussion about this same website on HAMB. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/car-sales-scams.740752/ General consensus is the site is a scam. As someone already said, nice work if you can get it. Wes in VT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54vicky Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 9 hours ago, tripwire said: There's a discussion about this same website on HAMB. that was from 2012 highly doubtful they have changed.funny what you find when doing due diligence and google https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/car-sales-scams.740752/ General consensus is the site is a scam. As someone already said, nice work if you can get it. Wes in VT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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