On FB marketplace, I always check out what else a person is selling. Occasionally you get lucky. Also, look in the background for clues. Some scammers will have a bunch of VERY desirable items at red flag prices. But the backgrounds and lighting are all different, because the pics are stolen. Some times, if you look close, you will see the name of the original seller in the stolen pic.
A 1099 isn't automatically 100% income. It's only a heads-up to the IRS that you received $600 or more. But you get to respond with a reckoning whether it was profit or not. For example, if you acquired a part in the distant past for $1000 and eventually sold it for $600, that's a $400 loss you can deduct from your other income. If you are not a professional vendor selling 100k of T-shirts, etc., your little side hustle sales deals are understood to not have the same degree of documentation as the professional sellers typically are able to produce. You're rather equivalent to a garage sale where everything you sell is at a loss. You will be considered small potatoes and not worth a second glance. The only hustlers who do get a second look are those who gleefully claim a loss year after year. That doesn't pass the IRS smell test. They expect you to show a profit for more years than you show losses. Otherwise, why would anyone pursue an endeavor that never produces a profit?
....... and it is the guys buying and selling to create themselves a good little side cash income that have caused the problem. It seems like everyone wants to get one over on "the man".
Confirmed this guy is a scammer. Offered to purchase the whole car, bring cash and a trailer this week. Asked him to take a pic of himself with the car and a piece of paper with todays date and he said too much trouble!
No, I haven't tried the Googe image thing but I will. I did contact him again and told him I would bring cash and a trailer this week. Now he says he is in Houston, not Nevada, so maybe he stole the guys FB id. ??? Told him to quote a price and send a pic of him with the car and a piece of paper with todays date. He said that was too much trouble......CONFIRMED SCAMMER!!!!!
The ad stinks like a pound of Limberger. Ask them for a close up picture of the grill. Because they have such an excellent grasp of the English language, they will send you a picture of a Mustang taillight or the rear bumper from a Studebaker.
Thank you! I'm so tired of hearing about the $600 notification to the IRS as an excuse to avoid the safety of the buyers. The hard reality is, even if it was fully taxable how much difference is an additional $600 going to make on your annual income? Unless you are right on the edge of a tax bracket, its not going to make much difference. If you think its going to effect you that much, add the tax cost to the price of the item. Maybe you should look into making your online sales into a legitimate business, there are tax write offs connected with having a side business that might really be a big benefit to you.
Ynkl Ian hit on one thing you can do in a few seconds to protect yourself from the start. Hit the sellers Main page with the info on them including friends and photos and snoop a bit. When did they join? does it show that they have a real life besides selling parts? The guy who has a life and there are photos showing what they do beside sell parts and who has been on that board for a few years is probably safe. The guy who joined two weeks ago has a couple of creepy photos in his photos beside the parts and no life normally is a scammer.
and the guy that joined yesterday and has only Nigerian friends, but selling American car parts is probably a scammer also - yes I came across that !
I saw a scammer with a fake business page on FB "selling" car parts. You could just smell that it was a scam. Some very nice pre war stuff, and 5 yo import parts, and everything in between. Strange, but he also had a handful of 5 star reviews. How is that possible ? So I went to the reviewer's pages. None of them ever posted anything else, anywhere, ever. They existed only to review the scammers page. Seen this done with custom painters too. The "customers" that the scammer painted these bikes for, were all fake pages to make the scammer look legit. They appear to talk back and forth, like normal people, but it is just a scammer talking to themselves trying to look real. ALL the pics were stolen, some even had the real shop's name in the background. If you go to that shop's page, you seen the work being done. Another clue on FB, is comments. Any page, especially a business page, with zero comments on any post is VERY suspect. Scammers delete negative comments. Any selling post of FB with comments turned off, is VERY suspect. Also, pay attention to sentence structure and language used. Even with Google Translate, the sentence structure in some languages is different, and doesn't translate well into English. A lot of scam messages, come across as overly polite, which seems unnatural to us in the west. We just don't talk like that. Of course, some AI bots are also reading this, and learning how to help scam more people in the near future.
try a video live on your smart to see if the parts are, pic's can be faked but live video a lot harder to fake, but easy for scammer to avoid
Saw someone with grainy OLD pics, trying to sell a Kellison. People questioned him, and suggested he post some more recent pics. Of course, he protested. Yeah, I am going to spend real money based on what something looked like 50 years ago, not what it looks like today. Guaranteed the pics were stolen. Busted.
I looked up the name you provided on FB. There is a guy in Nevada, TX by that name, but every single photo he's posted were all on the same day and the only "likes" the photos receive are from a guy in Cameroon Africa = RED FLAG. There are also several profiles from people in the Philippines with that name = RED FLAG.
There's a scammer on IG using Dollhoff's stuff outta ND. I asked him for a 62 Hudson Hornet rt rear door. Said he had it in stock, and wanted a FaceTime. Insisted actually. I said send me a pic of the door and we'll proceed. Then he got irate with me, said if I wanted the door I'd have to transact that way which was a major WTF in the 1st place. He also said it was a zero rust door and he'll take pictures when he knows I'm for real. I finally told him there's no such thing as a 62 Hudson Hornet and that he was reported to IG. Dunno where it went from there.
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