[VIDEO] Corvette Restorer Gets Scammed on eBay with ‘Worst Corvette Ever’

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[VIDEO] Corvette Restorer Gets Scammed on eBay with 'Worst Corvette Ever'


You might think it’s just clickbait when you see someone on YouTube saying “I Bought the Worst Corvette Ever. Ever!”

But in the case of The Corvette Ben, it’s absolutely the truth.

You’ve just got to check out this video that Ben just posted on his channel. At 37 minutes, it’s not short but we couldn’t stop watching once we started.

[VIDEO] Corvette Restorer Gets Scammed on eBay with 'Worst Corvette Ever'


Ben bought this “Corvette” on eBay for $3,600 sight-unseen, and thereby committed his first mistake. While there apparently are a lot of honest folks selling cars on eBay, the guy who sold this one to Ben is a straight-out thief. It doesn’t take a car expert to know this Corvette is a pile of junk intentionally assembled to scam an online buyer.

The photos with the one-line listing seemed to show a decent-enough 1972 Corvette, but when it arrived at Ben’s home, it was actually just a collection of mismatched parts from Corvettes of several different years, barely attached just enough to make the sale.

[VIDEO] Corvette Restorer Gets Scammed on eBay with 'Worst Corvette Ever'


It’s almost unbelievable watching this video to think that some unscrupulous person took so much time to create this scam of a car. It looks to me like the guy went to a junkyard and picked up assorted parts to create the illusion of a chrome-bumper Corvette. Check out the T-tops as just one example – with the passenger’s side being just an outer shell with no trim or latches – completely useless other than as a flying frisbee.

After spending more than 30 minutes going over all the problems with his car, Ben admits he’s probably not going to get a refund from the seller and hopes he can just make a couple of thousand bucks by selling assorted parts. That might be a little optimistic as the whole body is just a pile of bondo shaped to resemble an early C3. The interior is also a pile of garbage and includes cardboard floors under the carpet. The engine looks like it was rescued from a sandy grave, and the frame is not only rusty but also not even from a ’72. The front end is from a later model C3 that has the ’72 side vents bondo’d into place.

Here’s hoping that Ben can get at least some of his money back, but realistically he may just have to chalk up this whole catastrophe as an expensive learning experience. At least maybe he can earn some cash from clicks on the video he made about it.


Source:
AutoEvolution.com

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6 COMMENTS

  2. I’m certainly not defending a dishonest seller, but I don’t understand what he thought he was buying. From someone who has restored a C3, as well as bought/sold cars extensively online, it’s pretty evident from even a cursory exterior photo that it’s a basket case car. Presumably the listing included a comprehensive photo gallery. If so, and it’s really as bad as he claims, it would’ve been obvious. If it didn’t have extensive photos and he bought it anyway, what did he expect?

  3. I watched the first five minutes of this video and had to stop it and get away from it. This piece of junk is so sickening I couldn’t stand to watch anymore of it.

  4. Sounds like the “thief” between parts and labor has more in the Vette than $3,600. Hope this crook’s ID gets published far and wide. (But he has probably already changed identity.)

  5. I have no sympathy at all for the buyer. He obviously thought he was getting one over by getting it so cheap. He rolled the dice and lost, it’s not the seller.

  6. Well, maybe he was expecting a car in terrible but salvageable condition. In a case like that $3,600 would have been a fair price. But a car pieced together with odds and ends was definitely if not illegal, at the least unethical.

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