Sell Used Cars Online

Q.I've posted an ad on cars.com to sell my Concorde. I've gotten a couple of responses but they sound fishy to me. In both cases the buyer is out of state and wants to arrange to have the car shipped, that just doesn't sound right. It's a 94 Concorde with 128K miles on it, it's not a hard to get classic car. One of the buyers said he would send me a certified check or money order that includes the shipping costs, that's a huge red flag. I did a little googling and there is a known scam where they send you a check, your bank accepts it, you send money to the shipper and then a week later the bank tells you that the check is bad. I sent the buyer an e-mail and told them they would have to pay the shipper directly. Was posting an ad on Cars.com a bad idea? The last time I sold a car was 94 which predates Internet scams. I put an ad in the Want Advertiser which was a print only publication at the time, and I ended up selling it to someone for cash. The Want Advertiser is online now so it's no safer. What's the best way to sell a used car these days?

A.Nothing has to be notarized in Massachusetts, you just sign the title over. I've put an ad on Craig's list that includes the proviso that the deal has to be done in person, if they want to ship the car to Nigeria they can forget it. I haven't had any response from the Craig's list ad yet but I'm gotten three scam responses from the Cars.com add. Two of the guys have admitted that they are in London. The one who say's he's a broker I told that I'm selling the car to local buyer. The other one who claims that he want's it for his son I've told that he would have to take care of the shipping himself and that I'd require a couple of weeks for the bank to clear the check, we'll see if he continues to persist with this. I got a third one that was less well crafted then the others and that included a phony phone number I simply forwarded to ab...@cars.com.

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