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If you have bikes or items for sale then email the details and we shall display them here for one month. Also any items wanted can be displayed.
Updated 16/07/09.
Currently no items are for sale.
Currently no items are wanted.
Please be careful
Important - We have been notified of various people asking to buy bikes and bits and pieces found on the VSOC For Sale pages with less than literary talents at composing letters and emails etc, leading us to suspect that fraud could be attempted. For instance, the following are directly from emails recently received from one person.
Thanks for the mail, the price is okay with my client, and my client is set to make payment for the bits via wire transfer, he has got in contact with his shippers and they are set to pick up the bits as soon as the funds are available in your account. He has then requested me to inform you that he need you to provide for him your bank details in order to wire the funds directly into your account. Get back to me ASAP. Thanks
Thanks for the mail, please can you provide for me your name and address that will be written on the check, and I will like you to get me 10 pieces of the front brake switches for the Yamaha wildstar please get back to me ASAP.
We have a client interested in buying your 2 front brake switches. If the request sounds nice, provide with the cost. Shipment to West London will be taken care of by him. Regards.
If you are selling anything through this website or anywhere else... do not pass your bank details to anyone - particularly via email as this method is so insecure you wouldn't believe it!
If you are suspicious of any person contacting you with a view to buying your bike or parts, then it may be best to wait until a more legitimate buyer comes to you. As always with a sale, let the funds clear into your account before letting any goods go.
(Update 03/07/03) Here's a good reason why you should be concerned - (from someone who knows....)
"Thanks for that and also for the excellent warning I have just seen on the site. I am a serving Police Officer and we are getting quite a number of complaints about this sort of activity.
A common method is to show interest in buying an item, sending the vendor a cheque, often a company cheque, the cheque is normally over and above the selling price, the buyer then explains that he was owed money by the person who wrote the cheque and could you just forward the difference to him.
The reason this works is that the cheque you bank will show as cleared after 3 days (this is something to do with bank interests). Pressure is then put on you by the fraudster to send the difference. Lo and behold after 4 days you get notified that the cheque has actually bounced and you are out of pocket! They know the banking systems inside out. They are attacking all sorts of websites, particularly cars and bikes sites.
Biggest hit in our force so far is £100,000! It really hangs on the greed or susceptibility of the seller, so your warning gets it just about right."
