Im from east coast looking at someone equipment in gillette. Anyone live there or know someone who could check to make sure this company is legit and not a scam. Thx
Post the company name and the listing, you'll know in an hour or less if it's legit . Joe H
https://www.tractorsrusl.com/inventory/2017-kenworth-t88 https://www.tractorsrusl.com/inventory/2019-kubota-kx057-
street view of their address doesn't look promising Street View · Google Maps Explore a place in a more immersive way in Google Maps. www.google.com
Maybe the overhead view will help? See all the equipment there? (I don't either). In fairness, it's possible they recently moved to a new location and built a building, parking lot, etc and satellite photos haven't been posted yet. Or maybe we can look at the reviews posted by their customers, excuse me, "collectors"... Seems legit, no? Or how about the fact that they have "39+ equipment" available and "200+ equipment" sold in their 14+ years of experience? All hand selected of course. Seems pretty legit... (I'm kidding) That doesn't get into their pricing, which seems to be seriously low on most items, or the background of the photos. They may be a legitimate business but I think the OP is wise to be skeptical.
Never send a deposit. Only buy what you can drive up and look at. Be there when it gets loaded on your trailer or hauler , and pay for it
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Its a scam and unfortunately someone i know Sent a wire for alot of money for a different peice of equipment. I feel bad for him. Im sure his $ is gone but id like to at least report it so others dont get screwed. Im sure its an operation in India somewhere. They are getting smarter with there scams. They sent him a video of the equipment and talked kind of normal. They used a real business address out of millersburg ohio. Here is the website they got him on. Very similar website as the one I posted. I think he originally found them on Facebook marketplace and he clicked on link which took him to website. Any thoughts on who to contact to at least try to track these scum bags https: //buckeyefarmgarden. com/
Not a good idea to post their web site address IMO. It might be better if you edited it out.
Why
When sites get reported here as a scam, the scammers have gone after this site. As revenge for being revealed as scammers I'm sorry for your loss of money, it's gone overseas, and no one is going to get it back.
I edited it so it's not a working link, but people can still see and avoid.
Previous (bad) experience. See the post by @crane operator above. More than once some nasty piece of work scammer has tried to shut this forum down in a DDOS attack because they were revealed as a fraud.
you edited the wrong one, need to fix HeavyEquipmentForums
That site is a scam site and we are not going back through that again. The links back to their website have been disabled. Fixed it. And please don't quote a post with the links as it makes more work to clean it up.