Lifewithavan for sale website

[Vwejit]

I’m pretty sure i have just fallen for a scam, or at least been duped into listing my van for sale on this website……..
My van is up for sale on the forum, but also in a few other places including Facebook - someone reached out to me on Facebook by direct message and recommended i use the Lifewithavan website saying it was really good and will definitely sell on there………..£40 later, I’m starting to feel a bit stupid……..it may well be listed and a genuine website, but certainly wasn’t a website i had heard of previously.
Anyone on here heard of it, or been approached in a similar way?

 

[T6Mike]

Hopefully the worst that can happen is you're out of pocket £40, but lets hope you get lots of internet hits and sell the van. I haven't heard of the site, but I haven't heard of lots of things. Did you give them your card details?

 

[jimc91]

Never heard of it either but when I googled it it came up with a site with vans for sale so on the face of it it seems ok

 

[Vwejit]

Hopefully the worst that can happen is you're out of pocket £40, but lets hope you get lots of internet hits and sell the van. I haven't heard of the site, but I haven't heard of lots of things. Did you give them your card details?

Yeah - credit card details to pay for the listing……..not sure it’s a complete rip off, but feel a bit duped listing it on there as I google searched campervans for sale, and the website doesn’t return in the first 25 pages I looked at. Got fed up after that. Can’t see it was worth £40……

 

[nedwood]

Have a look on trustpilot, they get a decent rating but lots of positive reviews from people with 1 review otherwise many negative comments

Life With a Van is rated "Average" with 3.7 / 5 on Trustpilot

Do you agree with Life With a Van's TrustScore? Voice your opinion today and hear what 15 customers have already said.

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[Vwejit]

Have a look on trustpilot, they get a decent rating but lots of positive reviews from people with 1 review otherwise many negative comments

Life With a Van is rated "Average" with 3.7 / 5 on Trustpilot

Do you agree with Life With a Van's TrustScore? Voice your opinion today and hear what 15 customers have already said.

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Yeah…….sniffs a bit

 

[Steview]

I’ve got mine for sale too and also had someone recommend that site with an attached link. I didn’t trust it so didn’t bother but if it is genuine I hope you get a sale out of it. There’s that many for sale at the minute so I suppose any help is a bonus. Good luck with your sale.

 

[nedwood]

Probably not really a scam, just a site that no one looks at created to provide advertising.

I had a similar experience after receiving an email with an invoice to renew my listing in a local business directory which I'd never heard off.
Designed to look like a gov.uk website, they use publically avilable data to create local parish directories, which nobody looks at or knows about.

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They've created these for thousands of parishes all over the country, I'm sure lots of people just pay the £20 without thinking about it so nice little hustle for someone.

 

[CAB]

Probably not really a scam, just a site that no one looks at created to provide advertising.

I had a similar experience after receiving an email with an invoice to renew my listing in a local business directory which I'd never heard off.
Designed to look like a gov.uk website, they use publically avilable data to create local parish directories, which nobody looks at or knows about.

PARISH.UK Network

Manage your official .parish.uk location on the web

parish.uk

They've created these for thousands of parishes all over the country, I'm sure lots of people just pay the £20 without thinking about it so nice little hustle for someone.

That's a very well designed (= copied) site. It does look extremely Gov.UK !!

 

[Phil Blackburn]

Yeah - credit card details to pay for the listing……..not sure it’s a complete rip off, but feel a bit duped listing it on there as I google searched campervans for sale, and the website doesn’t return in the first 25 pages I looked at. Got fed up after that. Can’t see it was worth £40……

came up straight away in a search on their website, looks legit.

 

[adamabaskati]

It is actually a pretty good site to be fair especially for campervan enthusiasts, but think people have mixed experiences on whether it sells or not. Also seems like the site have affiliates trying to make commission from their site hence why they reach out to you. Don't see much harm in it and is a good idea, hope your campervan sells soon!

 

[oldiebut goodie]

Suspicious! Taps fingers whilst awaiting link.

 

[oldiebut goodie]

He hasn't been back to put his link in yet!