Shoppers can buy just about anything these days online. And online auctions can seem like a great way to get items at a good price.
Nashville-based NewsChannel 5 Investigates found what appears to be a fake online auction that’s drawing in potential customers from across the country, including one RV buyer from Nashville.
Before bidding on anything, make sure that auction is real.
The company running the auction site said it’s based in Nashville. But as NewsChannel 5 Investigates found, there’s no way their offices are where they claim to be.
It’s got a strange name. It’s called AuctionTheBest.com.
And it’s where a company calling itself Auction Best LLC has claimed to be auctioning just about any type of vehicle shoppers are looking for and then some.
“We just wanted something that was inexpensive,” Darren Simmons told NewsChannel 5 Investigates.
Simmons found an RV on the online auction site and thought it was such a deal, he placed a bid. Soon after, he got an invoice and instructions to transfer $45,000 immediately from his bank account. Then his phone rang.
“He said, ‘You are the winner, and we will deliver the coach once you make full payment,’” Simmons recalled.
But the Indiana man wanted to see the RV in person first.
Read the full report from Jennifer Kraus at NewsChannel 5 in Nashville, Tn., by clicking here.