Submitted:
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Last posting: Wednesday, October 11, 2006
West Valley City,
Utah
Neil Marcellino owner of Automotive Network Connection of Florida listed a 1991 Toyota Camry on eBay as having 91,401 miles and as rust and problem free. He even showed a photo of the odometer. There were about 20 photos of a beautiful shiny car that looked like it had been stored in a garage its whole life! We wired him $3546.00 to pay for the car and shipping.
When we picked up the car it was obviously rusty and repainted without primer. The driver's door is rusting from the inside and a body shop says nothing can save the door. A Carfax report shows the actual mileage as 174,340 as of a YEAR ago. The body shop determined the value of the car to be only $1100.00 based on condition and mileage.
Two auto shipping companies in Florida now refuse to ship cars for him. He opened a new company on 9/21/2006; Flamingo Joes Auto Sales of Miami Beach, Florida.
Here is a website I created about the incident:
neil-marcellino.com
It has resources to help other victims of odometer fraud.
Randall
West Valley City, Utah
U.S.A.