IIRC, the opening page for craiglist autos warns against ‘I’m a soldier and about to be deployed’ scams.
I actually did buy a car from an ‘about to be deployed’ soldier, on CL...but there were a few differences. Mainly, it was local, so I could go meet him, look at the car, see where he lived, etc.
I would never but a car sight unseen like that....and you have to ask yourself - if its such a great deal, why can’t he sell it locally.
—I would never but a car sight unseen like that...—
Same here. I actually left a comment in the ad (you can do that on that site) that it is a scam and even included one of the links here to a discussion about that scam.
I don’t buy anything worth real money sight unseen. And this “someone will hold the money for us” baloney is always a huge red flag.