Something fishy - a heads-up to potential S2 buyers.

[Republik1980]

For several months now I've been casually perusing various classifieds to get a feel for S2 prices and availability. Over this time I've become familiar with a few cars that seem to keep cropping up - one such vehicle being BX51 YOK - a silver Oxford based 26k mile 16v.

Some months ago the car appeared on ebay for £10k, surprisingly receiving no bids even though it appeared to be a good price and was relisted several times.

Then more recently it popped up on Autotrader for £9k, listed as Cat D.

I assumed that an unscrupulous private seller had had no luck attempting to quietly shift his written-off vehicle on ebay, given up and passed it onto a trader to get rid of (who has since advertised it more honestly).

However the same car has apparently been relisted on ebay and is currently standing at a bid of nearly £14k!

I'm not sure if the ebay ad is listed by the same seller as it was originally, but something definitely stinks - it seems pretty obvious that the latest ebay ad is a scam.

I'd advise anyone interested in the car (from either "seller") to tread extremely cautiously...

[simpo555]

Slightly worrying indeed. Think someones going to be extremely happy if it indeed sells at that price, and somebody is going to get more than a nasty shock when they realise what that they've bought. Get the word out.

[Thorburn]

That's top money for a long tail S2 regardless of its history!

[J2LOT]

Report it to e- bay if the seller is withholding the fact it's cat D

High bids cancelled though so back at about £8k which is more realistic.

Edited by J2LOT on Monday 12th August 23:14