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16-04-2011, 02:04 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Melbourne
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This is clearly not a FPV...
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....m=250805390963 Dont know how these dealers expect to get away with advertising it as one... |
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16-04-2011, 02:08 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Melbourne
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Wrong badges, wheels, interior seats, console lid, handbrake, shifter, cluster. No bulge bonnet and not colour coded side moulds just to name a few, lol
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16-04-2011, 02:12 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Gren A Waverrey
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FPV Falcon - when only the best glue-on badge will do.
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16-04-2011, 02:50 AM
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Boss 335
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Meh, today's FPV's have become nothing more than sticker packs. FPV don't do enough to differentiate an FPV from a garden variety falcon, unlike today's HSVs. To a non-ford enthusiast, they probably wouldnt notice or care less that it's not a genuine FPV. Even in this state, it still looks a whole lot better than a commodore/camry of that era.
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16-04-2011, 03:02 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
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just a tarted up fairmont.. or xt.. one or the other... too late at night posting this answer.. lol.. yes.. very poor advertising and is misleading.
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16-04-2011, 03:19 AM
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Blue Blood
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: SA
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It's an XT. Rear window winders are a dead giveaway.
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16-04-2011, 06:06 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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It's also a 5.4 3V........
 
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16-04-2011, 07:14 AM
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Breaking stuff...
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Location: Gold Coast
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Pfft, no dash gauges either
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16-04-2011, 07:42 AM
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FG GT
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Location: brisbane
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Is not an offense for false advertising?
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16-04-2011, 08:09 AM
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[BU66OS]
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Central Coast NSW
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Fully sic Futura 16's bro.
Really but this isn't on, can you report it somehow? Don't want some bloke buying a XT for $15k. If the dealer sold it as an XT 3V, he'd get a decent price anyway they're pretty rare. Just get rid of the bodykit and it'll be decent.
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16-04-2011, 08:12 AM
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bahahaha i just rang him his name is dennis and he swears its a genuine car bahahahaha sounded like a typical scaming foreigner !
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16-04-2011, 08:24 AM
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Formally Kia Chaser
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Newcastle
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It would actually be very funny if the dealer actually thought it was an FPV and paid an FPV trade in price for it! lol
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16-04-2011, 08:36 AM
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DELANY
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Location: Melbourne
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that is ridiculous
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16-04-2011, 08:38 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
 
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I think if anyone who was in the market for a BA GT and did NO research and even considered looking at this car, they deserve the tarted up XT V8 as their FPV!
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16-04-2011, 08:44 AM
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Barra Turbo > V8
 
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Guys use the report function on the site.
Someone should call them and play dumb just for a laugh.
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16-04-2011, 08:44 AM
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2004 TX Territory
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Location: Perth
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Still it's false advertising. I think he will sell it as someone will walk in and buy it thinking they were getting the real deal. Some people do no research when buying a car just what they like and is in their price range.
I wonder if after you bought it you could take it back when you found out it was a fake.
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16-04-2011, 08:48 AM
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[BU66OS]
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Say if I walk into Dick Smith, and they advertise 16Gb iPod for $100, I buy one, thinking it's 16Gb, but it's only 8Gb, they will give me the 16Gb for no extra cost. Same principle right? Is it not the law?
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16-04-2011, 09:04 AM
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2004 TX Territory
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Location: Perth
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Sadly the EB is dead.... Now a AWD TX Territory Daily P6 Silver Monarch Weekender And on 2 Wheels, ZZR 250 Can do mixer shaft replacement on BA-BF Falcon and SX-SY, fix your heater Today. PM For more details For sale: Heaps of Territory bits and bobs including front brembo doglegs, NOS I-design territory body kit painted offshore, also FPV 290 engine bits. FS thread here http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11397826 Pm for more details. |
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16-04-2011, 09:26 AM
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16-04-2011, 09:30 AM
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ive rang him , for a laugh, someone else call him and tell him they want to buy it lol post what happends
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16-04-2011, 09:36 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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my crap phones having a sooky about me looking at the add.. post the number up... passing things off for not what they are is right up there with the burning of puppys and kittens.. grrrr....
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16-04-2011, 09:37 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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One the plus side he is doing it with a B-series claiming to be an FPV cause they all just plastic junk.
The real crime would be if he was claiming a tarted up AU was a T-series.....   Sorry fellas couldn't resiste. |
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16-04-2011, 09:40 AM
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Resident AFF detailer
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Melbourne, VIC
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What a muppet this guy must be.
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16-04-2011, 09:42 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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hit him up for the build number... lol...
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16-04-2011, 09:54 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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16-04-2011, 10:06 AM
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Ich bin ein auslander
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Loving the Endorphine Machine
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Tried to report it on ebay, their report form is a piece of junk and does not given option for a car that is being misrepresented in the ad.
I think we should all just ring him at various times until he gets sick of it and changes the add.
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16-04-2011, 10:07 AM
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16-04-2011, 10:29 AM
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FPV GTR
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: South Island High Country
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I just spoke with them. They are confident they checked with Ford and its genuine. I asked how many 80k cars come with wind down windows in the back.
lol I spoke with a fella who sounded interested in what I had to say and was beginning to wonder if something was up.
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16-04-2011, 10:37 AM
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Resident AFF detailer
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Melbourne, VIC
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Just sent him a message on eBay pointing out several of the 'flaws' in the ad (politely worded).
I suggest that others do the same - weight of numbers.....?
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16-04-2011, 10:40 AM
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meh.
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Umm.... but i would've thought fleabay would've had an option for false advertisment..
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Clearly not an FPV...
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