The old cliché that the internet is full of scams is in some ways still accurate today. As in any situation where you are asked to part with your money, when shopping online you should always make sure that the person you are doing with – virtual or otherwise – is on the up and up.
Purchasing big ticket items online has opened the door to scammers looking to prey on buyers who are eager to jump on what they perceive as amazing deals. This has become common on the web when it comes to car sales, with sites like Craigslist peppered with ads for desirable vehicles at too-good-to-be-true prices. Even eBay, which used to be fairly good at rooting out illegitimate vehicle auctions has increasingly fallen behind when it comes to removing listings which are clearly bogus.
The vast majority of the time, when something seems too good to be true, it is. I’ve managed to keep this attitude about me during my recent online car search, which has seen me tracking down a specific and somewhat rare model over the internet for a couple of months now. An experience that I had just last week prompted me to write this post in order to remind others of a few indicators to look for when ferreting out suspect internet ads and auctions.
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I can remember how long the road trips from my hometown into the big city seemed at the time, and how amazing it was to see all of these gleaming new cars and trucks arranged in the displays that littered the main exhibition floor of the Olympic Stadium.
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to renew my vows with the Canadian phenomenon known as Sloan. Sloan is a band originally hailing from the province of Nova Scotia, and they also happen to be the group I have seen the most often live – I am verging on my seventh or eighth Sloan concert.
This week I finally faced up to reality and put the Miata away for its first winter sleep in my care. While I know that many Miata-ites are comfortable strapping on a hard top and tackling the snow and ice without a second thought, I am not willing to deal with the eventual corrosion issues that Canadian winters would visit on my track car.
Musings, tips and stories from years spent crawling through the electronic music jungle.
It’s currently fashionable – and certainly a lot of fun – to look back at some of the most egregious styling errors and questionable automotive fashion decisions made in the 1970’s and early 1980’s and wonder just what everyone was thinking at the time.
Scratch the surface of any car guy or girl out there, and you’ll be hard pressed not to find at least one or two tales of woe about a car that broke their hearts.
Don’t get me wrong – I am flattered that people think enough of my opinion to ask what I would do if I were in their shoes. The truth of the matter is, however, that buying a car is a really personal decision that involves a lot of factors specifically related to the needs of the buyer.
I recently attended a high performance driving school that wasn’t focused on getting the most out of a car on a race track. Instead, the goal of the school was to teach drivers the skills they need to handle emergency situations on the highway.
