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I doubt it

A few thoughts...

Whether the miles are actual or not is anyone's guess. A CARFAX report might tell the story, but might not.

However, with respect to the picture, one thing is for sure: No person of even moderately sound mind, would photoshop an odometer reading. Imagine going to pick up a car that had 115k listed in the auction, and seeing 215k on the clock... that would really nail someone's ass with ebay. The guy has sold a lot of cars, has little if any negative feedback, and more or less appears to be legitimate. That person has listed a lot of Volvo product, and while I doubt that some of the auctions have been totally true (like the beat-to-f**k 960 with blown airbags and a spun odometer being a car "someone really took care of"), it would seem stupid to put a photoshopped odo reading in the auction. It would be way too risky for the seller to do that and risk the buyer rejecting the vehicle when it arrived because it was grossly misrepresented.

I'm figuring anyone who has sold that many cars, isn't too hard to track down. Anyone hell-bent on misrepresenting mileage would generally just tamper with the speedo. There are a lot of people still doing that, and some of them are successfully sidestepping CARFAX. Photoshopping the reading would be *really* dumb.






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New Is this ebay auction a fraud?
posted by  JoeTown244GL  on Mon Dec 29 14:54 CST 2003 >
  • New I doubt it
    posted by  chris herbst  on Mon Dec 29 15:16 CST 2003 >


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