:evil: Ja that is the million $$$$$$$$$$$$$ question that I have to ask you all?Last week I placed an advert on Gumtree, wanting to buy a Toyota 1 DZ-11 diesel engine, thus I received a phone call from a Mr. Chris Howie that told me that he has an engine to sell me and that he is wanting R7 500.00 for it, it comes with a 6 months warranty.
Let me go back two days before this.
Last week on Monday I purchased two Toyota 7 series 2.5 ton forklifts from a company in East London, knowing that the one has engine problems, thus I removed the head and found that the one inlet valve had gone through the side of the cylinder bore, thus I thought it would be better to look around and buy a 2nd hand engine instead, knowing that to fit a sleeve and overhaul this engine will cost about R40 000.00.
Rushing into this deal and not thinking straight, this Chris guy sent me an invoice through his company called SBM Forklifts and he gave me his address as well.
Anyway only after I had transferred the payment, I actually did not feel too good about this later in the evening when I checked up on where he worked, it ended up been in Pongola and the street address that he gave me was in a residential area and there were sugar cane fields across the road, when I phoned and asked him what was across the road, he could not tell me and he said that the houses had been taken down and workshops were put up instead.
Well this is when I knew that I had been ripped off.
His so called driver Jeff did phone me the next day to say that he was on his way to PE to deliver other spares and that he would be in Queenstown by 16h00 that afternoon, this also told me that I had been ripped off.
Anyway I have been to my bank and reported this scam and fraud and as well to the SAP to open a case of fraud, but I know that that will be the end of it.
Please try and contact Chris Howie on his cell phone, he does not answer my calls his number is 082 861 9013
Please try and contact Jeff his so called driver at 082 3484694
Chris email address is chris.sbmforklifts@gmail.com
So be waned about using gumtree to buy something that maybe does not exist?
The loss of the money is not the issue here, I really needed this engine and thus now I have to still look for another engine, somebody from Massina also contacted me, but he can go and sell his so called engine else where, I will never buy another item through Gumtree if the seller is not prepared to trust me and send me the item first, he the seller is not prepared to trust me then they can go and @#^%&(&)_)_ off.
And I will just carry on looking in other places.
Ja so I have been scammed
