The nightmare of those importing vehicles

  

Date Posted: 1/13/2013 10:42:23 PM

Posted By: billgates  Membership Level: Silver  Total Points: 446

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Shopping for a used motor vehicle can really prove to be an uphill task. Sometimes people will seek a second opinion on how to go about it from people who know cars best. Often, there is this awkward feeling of potentially losing cash to a shoddy deals.

It is such a traumatizing experience when you lose a million shillings to a fraud star pausing as a car import agent. In fact, many Kenyans have fallen prey in the hands of these criminals. Often, they are very smart and convincing, they operate in high-end offices in town and you can never resist their sweet deals until you realize that you are in the wrong hands.

How they do their job is like this; you see an ad, usually at the last pages of the daily newspapers, written in two or three lines. You call the numbers listed and they give you an appointment. When you get to town, they give you directions to their offices, so you arrive and knock the door, only to meet a young handsome gentleman in a designer suit waiting for you. Often, he is the CEO of the company. You get to talk and agree on a fair price. Normally, they will offer you a very low price for a car whose value may be worth almost double the amount.

You leave the office, very glad about the deal without giving it a second thought. The next minute, you are thinking of handing the cash over to them because you are very expectant of driving your first car, probably from Japan, or Dubai. As soon as you do that, communication between you and them go dead. Whenever you try reaching them through phone, your calls go unanswered until you are compelled to visit their offices a second time,

only to realize that your hard earned cash has disappeared into the pockets of criminals. The first thing you meet on the door is a sign that reads like this; “we have moved office”. Your efforts to trace them fail to yield results and that is when you rush to the police.

Unfortunately, this is the situation that majority of unlucky Kenyans find themselves in, with no hope of ever recovering the lost money. If you have been duped this way, sorry for you, just count your losses and move forward, hopefully you’ll get another car next time.

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