A guy got kidnapped for 4 hours after selling car on Craigslist
 

I found this on another chinese forum..

This guy was trying to sell his car on Craigslist, a BMW 520 and agrees to meet up with a potential buyer. The buyer comes with another friend, they go and test drive in a building on No.3/Saba...then 2 other guys jump into the car with a knife, forcing the owner to give up all his belongings. They hold him hostage for 4 hours while trying to transfer the car insurance to another guy.

So scary...
the owner posts the entire story online. (in chinese version)
http://www.westca.com/News/article/s...=tchinese.html

craigslist is full of surprises!

LOL that sucks.So much for friendly private sales.

thats why i hate buying or selling on craigslist

agreed, i had a guy that was an hour late to our meet time. he told me he was 5 minutes away when i called him 15 minutes after our scheduled meeting time. he shows up 45 minutes later...

whatever happened to people's integrity? sheesh

RS B/S FTW!!

This article looks super long, and detailed, but I couldn't even find a blurb of this incident in any of the major local news sources.

Why would you wait? If he said he was 5 minutes away I'd give him 15 minutes max and then leave.

Lulz, do yell please.

i much much MUCH rather buy on RS because of repubility.

Well sometimes when your trying to sell something especially something that might have not had lots of interest you might just wait it out since you already wasted all the time emailing back and forth and actually getting out to meet them wherever. The amount of time it would take to say fuck it and then trying to sell it again will probably be more of a hassle.

that's why I usually bring a friend with me when I sell something

WTF... and I always buy and sell on CS... damn this is gonna get scary

how am i to trust the erotic section now!

So were they able to transfer the BMW car insurance to another guy?

For big-ticket items like a higher-end car, always have a friend around for safety.

RS isn't always the best place to buy/sell. I've been scammed by people on RS with "spotless" records. Can't say the same for Craigslist.

Why would the suspects want to transfer the car insurance over to their name or friend's name? They are either stupid criminals or this story is made up.

:p you trusted it before?

BMW hadn't sold a 520i in Canada for AGES.. I highly doubt it is a "higher end car". The only possiblity that a 520i to be in Canada is via Japan.

I smell bullshit.

I was wondering about the 520 as well until i skimmed through all those chinese characters and found the numbers 530i

china uses craiglist???!!!

fuck I've always hated selling on craigslist..

they went for a test drive of a bmw in a BUILDING. riiiiiiiiiggggghhhhhhttttt


EDIT: ok i read part of the article. the buyer wants to test it out at the parkade. that should tip most ppl off. unless they are selling a car out of tokyodrift. nobody requests a test drive at the parkade.

I couldn't understand the article for shit with Google translate. :(

lol

when i sold my phone, we met up at the casino parking lot! 1000x cameras protection!

although i did go into those ppl's cars when they checked over my phone. LOL

yeah same here. i hate getting kidnapped and robbed of all my possessions. so much headache and takes up so much time.

damn i've never had any problems selling on cs or rs, then again I only sell video games, clothes and electronics, nothing too expensive

thats some scary stuff I always bring a friend with me when I am buying/selling things on CL although I guess it wouldnt matter to much if they had a knife