The Samba 57 Porsche Speedster $35,000 A Scam?

[Ken Rogers]

Here is a new one folks.

On the samba, Porsche 356 parts, today,
!957 Porsche 356 Speedster, $35,000. Sounds scammy to me.

[Jay Wiener]

maybe they forgot to add the last "0"

[Doug McDonnell]

Lotta scams recently. Makes me wonder if the North Koreans have entered the picture.

[Sam Good]

Even a scammer would know better than to price a '57 Speedster at $35k. Scammers are looking to price things at the low end of believable, which doesn't describe this price at all.

However, a lot of '57 Speedster replicas are out there, selling in that price range. And nearly every ad for such a replica, lists the year as 1957 and the make as Porsche...

Either the word "replica" was omitted, or a zero was omitted. Or we have the world's dumbest scam artist.

[Bruce Smith]

Lottos scams recently. Makes me wonder if the North Koreans have entered the picture.

Doug - What does North Korea have to do with anything?

[Doug McDonnell]

Bruce They have been very active recently doing computer theft from the world financial system. http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/27/technol ... oplead-dom I was being facetious about them pulling Porsche scams. My warped sense of humor.

[Jim Alton]

There's also an ad [WTB] Wanted! Looking for Porsche SPLIT Cabriolet 50-52 Price: 100000. That strikes me as about as realistic as a $ 35k Speedster.

There's another Wanted to Buy ad looking for a 356A T2 Cabriolet project in poor to fair condition with pictures of my car. Should I feek insulted?

[Martin Benade]

Seems reasonable to me.

[Adam Wright]

There's also an ad [WTB] Wanted! Looking for Porsche SPLIT Cabriolet 50-52 Price: 100000. That strikes me as about as realistic as a $ 35k Speedster.

There's another Wanted to Buy ad looking for a 356A T2 Cabriolet project in poor to fair condition with pictures of my car. Should I feek insulted?

I always tell those guys to not use pics of stuff I've found, sometimes they listen. Once the guy even said he had found the car, so I went out and took a picture next to the car and my truck, he just starting calling me names then.

[Adam Wright]

There's also an ad [WTB] Wanted! Looking for Porsche SPLIT Cabriolet 50-52 Price: 100000. That strikes me as about as realistic as a $ 35k Speedster.

There's another Wanted to Buy ad looking for a 356A T2 Cabriolet project in poor to fair condition with pictures of my car. Should I feek insulted?

I always tell those guys to not use pics of stuff I've found, sometimes they listen. Once the guy even said he had found the car, so I went out and took a picture next to the car and my truck, he just starting calling me names then.

[Eric Meyer]

The best way to find deals on Porsches... is to simply drive your old Porsche. The deals will walk up to you and start talking. I have found many old parts and cars from people just walking up to me and striking up a conversation about the old car I'm driving.. at a gas station... the grocery store etc. The Mailman also led me to several stashes... They are like the CIA. They know everything.

[Jim Clement]

maybe they are the CIA...

[Jim Alton]

There's also an ad [WTB] Wanted! Looking for Porsche SPLIT Cabriolet 50-52 Price: 100000. That strikes me as about as realistic as a $ 35k Speedster.

There's another Wanted to Buy ad looking for a 356A T2 Cabriolet project in poor to fair condition with pictures of my car. Should I feek insulted?

I always tell those guys to not use pics of stuff I've found, sometimes they listen. Once the guy even said he had found the car, so I went out and took a picture next to the car and my truck, he just starting calling me names then.

And, it's now in the 356 Registry Classifieds Porsche 356 t-2 cabriolet - $ytm. My car's getting famous.

I think those photos came from the Phoenix Club. Those aren't my photos so legally and morally it's a fair use to show my car as an example of a T2 Cabriolet. I just hope mine's actually better than "#4" condition.

[peter mansolillo]

I have been seeing my cars posted all over CL and other worldwide sites for 1/2 the price. There is some scammer out of Of Columbia SC that posts Checkered flag sold cars in different states at 50% under retail when i called him to find out where he was in Gulfport , he said the car was in Columbia , I said great im here Ill be there in 10 minutes, he blocked my number I reported him to Craigslist security & then to Ebay, ebay removed it immediately & his user ID dissapeared, CL still has the adds up

BUT then again a friend just bought a 39k original paint mile 930 for under 40k so its always worth the call

[Edwin Ek]

BUT then again a friend just bought a 39k original paint mile 930 for under 40k so its always worth the call

I wonder if the seller would be so happy if he knew he made a gift of $60K or more to a stranger.

That's what happens in a market with rapidly changing values and sellers working with imperfect information.