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    Default Has anyone here been approached by "ezcarsandtrucks.com"?

    Scam: Owner; James Stewart. Also worked for greatcarsandtrucks.com who were convicted of unfair trading practices.


    You know the type; You post up an ad on Kijiji for your vehicle for sale, and then two days later, this company calls you, offering to put it on THEIR website for $150 with a 90-day money-back guarantee if it doesn't sell.
    Anyone?

    *edit* Uhh...I'm not asking if I should do it or not. I'm well aware of what they are. I'm looking people who've been shafted by them. I just dug up all the info of the guy who owns ezcarsandtrucks...just looking for past/present customers of his.
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    Scam, just like all the other sites asking you for money.
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    I have gone above and beyond what I should rightfully have to do to protect my good name

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    Waste of money and time, just hang up.

    Or offer to sell to the person for 300 less than the asking price. Since they are so good at selling it they can keep the 300.

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    Yeah, I'm quite aware of their tactics and what they are. There was another company called "Greatcarsandtrucks.com" that was busted for "unfair trading practices". They went under in 2008,and lo and behold this "ezcarsandtrucks" has had 18 different domain name changes SINCE 2008, but I haven't found any linking names, directors or owners.

    Just find it very ironic, the name and the timing. Just wondered if anyone had been approached by them.

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    They often try me when I advertise heavy trucks or equipment. They " have several buyers lined up" all with financing already approved. Last guy wanted $1,000 up front for his services.

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    these guys are a joke. i received several phone calls from these companies everyday when I had a car listed on autotrader.

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    Yeah man, dont even waste a second of your time with them, their absolute clowns with all the ethic & business practices of a brick.

    Funny, Ive had no other calls, but these guys somehow have buyers lined up down the street eh? oh, okie dokie. Will you take Visa for your sign up fees?
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    Yeah, they call me all the time.

    "We have lots of buyers waiting."

    Really? Must be a weird town if no one would call me directly and only use some obscure third party agency to buy.

    Piss up a rope!

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    Don't do it!

    There is Beyond, Kijiji, Auto Trader, why the heck would you want to use their services?! If the vehicle is priced well, it will sell!
    Originally posted by rage2
    Shit, there's only 49 users here, I doubt we'll even break 100
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    Lol at nobody reading the first post.
    Vettel's #1

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    Originally posted by CapnCrunch
    Lol at nobody reading the first post.
    they all posted before he added that part (based on the time of the edit, and assuming the edit added the part you're referring to.

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    Originally posted by 95teetee
    they all posted before he added that part (based on the time of the edit, and assuming the edit added the part you're referring to.
    Correct...but it looks like they also missed my 2nd post. Seems most just read the OP, then hit "reply" without reading the posts after the OP. LOL.

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    Originally posted by max_boost
    Don't do it!

    There is Beyond, Kijiji, Auto Trader, why the heck would you want to use their services?! If the vehicle is priced well, it will sell!


    People can surprise you. We had a car that I thought no one would want...nothing wrong with it mechanically or anything, I just hated it, and there were much better cars you could get in the same class.

    Eventually, a guy came along and bought it for a couple hundred less than the asking price!

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    Originally posted by Stealth22



    People can surprise you. We had a car that I thought no one would want...nothing wrong with it mechanically or anything, I just hated it, and there were much better cars you could get in the same class.

    Eventually, a guy came along and bought it for a couple hundred less than the asking price!

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    Originally posted by Stealth22



    People can surprise you. We had a car that I thought no one would want...nothing wrong with it mechanically or anything, I just hated it, and there were much better cars you could get in the same class.

    Eventually, a guy came along and bought it for a couple hundred less than the asking price!
    There's a seat for every ass

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    Oh this story is getting better and better.

    ezcarsandtrucks.com is owned by a guy who worked at "greatcarsandtrucks.com"

    He's going off on a rant calling potential customers as "jerk offs", "idiots", "dumbasses"...and then posts a giant blog he calls:

    'Here is a story of a Tragety:" (yes his actual spelling)

    http://www.facebook.com/notes/james-...51021492191837

    If you're bored and want a good laugh, "a la beyond CSI" style, read here:

    http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/showthread.php?t=146495 (starts at post #10)

    ezcarsandtrucks.com

    Owned by Jim Stewart, formerly of "greatcarsandtrucks.com"

    Shyster!!

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    Quoted so he doesn't try to take it down. TLDR Warning.

    Here is a story of a Tragety:



    In 2002 I was working for the Toronto Star when a friend of mine called me and asked what I thought of a sales idea. It was internet based, and they were calling people in the Auto Trader and asking them to list on a website.



    The Auto Trader at the time was charging $60 every 2 weeks for a listing, and this company he wanted to work for offered a larger ad, for $60, but it would run until the vehicle sold, and they would give them a 90 day money back Guarantee.



    Well I had never heard of such a thing, but my reaction was YES! I mean with the "Do not Call Registry going on, this was a way around it. These people were ASKING you to call about their car! So you are. Sorry... that slips through all the loopholes!



    Also, it was not a bad concept. $60? How many people are gonna ask for their money back, when they do not have to pay again and again with the Auto Trader? So I advised him to take the job.



    Well, I was on my way back to Calgary anyway, as even though I was making $1,500 per week + in Ontario, working for the Toronto Star, selling Newspaper Subscriptions, and only working maybe 20 hours per week... it was expensive to live there. AND I could not hire a team, as this was commission, and since it was so expensive to live in Ontario, people needed a "guaranteed income"... and so I was on my own there. I wanted to go back out West.



    I had an idea of selling Video Certificates (door to door) and running a sales team to do that. Glad I fell flat on my face, as you know, the Video Market has taken a eternal "Nose Dive".



    So I hooked up with this guy, and I entered their office. They were kinda lost, as they had a few hundred vehicles listed in Alberta, and Ontario, but the only guy who actually sold anything there "in mass" was the Manager, Chris. At first he basically gave away the ads, just to populate the site. They needed me.



    Well, there was no "Sales Pitch" and so I had to invent one, but a good intoroduction was... "If I could get you a buyer, at your selling price... I mean a Guaranteed Buyer... would that be worth $60 to you?".



    Well it worked, and soon we had 15 people working in the Office. Cars, Trucks, Farm Machinery, Motorcycles, Snowmobiles... heck we even got a couple of Planes!



    Site expanded from Alberta & Ontario, first BC... then the rest of the West, finally Quebec & the Maritimes... the Company finally paid the programmer to open the USA. One other guy would compete with me for top, but I found out later that his girlfriend (the secretary) was feeding him all the "call ins"... as with 15 people, some would decide later to list and just call the Company directly. We got an 800 number. Soon we had local numbers for each major City.



    A Sales Manager came in who was just "Right on Top of it" and he did what I would do. Offer CASH for the next 2 sales! Bonus time! Daily and weekly & it motivated the Office. 20,000 vehicles then & somebody came up with another great idea.



    Let's offer Financing! Well yes! Now experienced, I could see that if a vehicle was worth over $10,000, there was NO WAY they were gonna have that money in their back pocket! Also I saw that many people had "test drivers" that wanted to buy... but when they went to get financing... they all of a sudden dissapeared. I understood then how much the finance companies were in "cohoots" with the Dealerships, and after talking to a few Dealers, I understood why.



    Finance Companies don't want to finance a Private Vehicle. Anything could happen to it, and they would be left holding the bag. Yet not if they dealt with Dealerships. Also, the dealerships were giving them kick backs. So in reality, anyone who qualified for a loan over $10,000, would be talked out of the Private Sale, as that was THEIR job!

    .

    The Owner had some Dealer friends, and they all agreed to finance people who wanted to buy vehicles on our site. WOW! Great Selling Feature! Except I quickly learned that if people went to them for financing, they were more interested in selling what was on THEIR lots, as they would rather make money out of BOTH ends.



    Well it was around this time that my Favorite Manager quit, as he had too many other things he was involved with and something had to go. He reccomended me as his replacement, but in the VAST intelligence of the Owner, he chose a guy begging for the job, wo was a rip off. This guy would tell customers that he already had a specific buyer for their vehicle, and just to list it, as it would be sold.



    At this point, I walked out of the Office and went home to work. Asked "hey who told you that you could work from home?", I replied "Do you want my sales or not?"! Yea they did as I was their best.



    Now we are at 40,000 vehicles, and we are getting piles of people that want their money back, as their vehicle did not sell. Yet they had to follow the rules. We needed a Notarized Copy of their Title or Ownership within 10 days of the 90 days to give the refund. Notaries cost $45. Who is gonna pay that to get back $60? Yet they complained anyway.



    They complained to the BBB, and at first the Owner would weekly show the BBB why they were not qualified for a refund, and the BBB agreed. However after a few months, the Owner got tired of going down to the BBB to explain the exact same thing.



    Part of the problem was the Money Back Guarantee was hidden. You had to click on it to see it. However it still was in black and white, and totally reasonable. Why should we give you your money back if you no longer own the car? Show me proof that you own the car! The only way you can do that legally is with a Notary.



    Still, it was then, that I went to the Owner and pleaded... "Give them their frigging money back! It's bad Karma Man! Look... how many really want it back? 2%? " Oh you have no idea, he exclaimed. Well I said..."even if it is 10% (which I doubt) it is better to shut them up, as over $60 they will cause you no end of trouble!".



    He just ignored me, and we raised our price to $100 as we went into the USA. Well you know what happens when the BBB gets too many complaints without a response? They PUBLISH "This Company is no longer responding to complaints"!



    Well you know what customers do when they see that? They paid with Visa or Mastercard, so they call Visa and Mastercard! Visa & Mastercard do not fool around... they just take away your Merchant Account. They did.



    When Great Cars and Trucks folded up we had over 65,000 vehicles in North America, and we were getting compliments as how fast their vehicle sold! Yet under it went.



    My money back guarantee is totally visible, on the front page. There is NO question about how to get your money back. I still need a Notary. However anyone who ever goes to the BBB will get their money back, guilty or innocent! And my financing? NO DEALERS! Just ONE "Good Credit Bad Credit" organization which I give an EXCLUSIVE right to ALL ads in their region, under the conditions that they finance 97% of the people who apply! They are NOT allowed to turn those Customers into Dealer deals, and if I find out they do... they lose their "exclusive rights"!



    Yet GC&T got shut down and it was a great idea. A Million Dollar Enterprize. Even though it was a situation where the complainers had nothing really to complain about. $100 and their ad stays listed "with financing" until it sells, and the Auto Trader was charging the same amount at that time for 2 weeks, with NO financing, and NO Money Back Guarantee, these morons complained anyway (as I expected they would) and not only did it destroy this great venture, but the Owner is now facing charges... from stupid people: http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2010/07...s.html?ref=rss



    I am NOT going down that road!



    Hope you enjoyed the story. My website with Molly Garvey's help is just gonna get a lot more Professional NOW. www.ezcarsandtrucks.com
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    Yeah they contacted me when I had my last car up for sale.

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    Originally posted by Stealth22



    People can surprise you. We had a car that I thought no one would want...nothing wrong with it mechanically or anything, I just hated it, and there were much better cars you could get in the same class.

    Eventually, a guy came along and bought it for a couple hundred less than the asking price!
    You'd be surprised what people buy these days just to bomb around town.

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    Ezcarsandtrucks is in the process of getting accredited with the BBB & has NEVER had one justifiable complaint.

    The price is shown CLEARLY and not even close to any of the competition. Nobody claims to have buyers. All that is set up is financing for the vehicles, which is necessary if you are selling a vehicle over $10,000 in most cases. In MOST cases, average finance companies do not wish to finance private sales. It only takes experience selling vehicles to learn that.

    There is a CLEAR "terms of agreement" with a CLEAR written Money Back Policy.

    What people posting here are doing is bad mouthing a fair business with a decent record, citing other Companies that they have dealt with that do NOT have:

    -Written Money Back Policy

    -Financing & Forms for Financing clearly on the website

    -A secure way of paying ONLINE

    -Past issues and problems.

    Again, there has never been a justified complaint, of ANYONE ever who has listed on the site, as not getting what they were promised. Postings by people here bad mouthing and mud slinging are worse than unscrupulous!

    FIRST have an ISSUE. THEN complain! Do NOT say that "some other company" or "companies like this" did this or that. If you have nothing specific to say, say NOTHING.

    Just because some Roofer did a bad job on your roof, does NOT mean that ALL roofers are rip offs!
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    Originally posted by James2013
    Just because some Roofer did a bad job on your roof, does NOT mean that ALL roofers are rip offs!
    Well if the other roofing company was owned by the same hack then it likely would.


    Originally posted by James2013
    What people posting here are doing is bad mouthing a fair business with a decent record, citing other Companies that they have dealt with that do NOT have:

    -Written Money Back Policy

    From the CBC article regaring greatcarsandtrucks.com:

    Originally posted by CBC News
    The site boasted of a risk-free, money-back guarantee
    Last edited by JRSC00LUDE; 03-05-2013 at 02:05 PM.
    Originally posted by SJW
    Once again another useless post by JRSCOOLDUDE.
    Originally posted by snowcat
    Don't let the e-thugs and faggots get to you when they quote your posts and write stupid shit.
    Originally posted by JRSC00LUDE
    I say stupid shit all the time.
    ^^ Fact Checked

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