Outboard Shopping, Too Good To Be True?

[Ovington]

Hi all, 

I am currently in the market for a new outboard as my one is only running on 2 cylinders. Anyway I have found a company in Canberra called "First outboards" which have brand new motors that are 2016 models mostly which are much less then anywhere else. 

Has anyone purchased from them before? I emailed them asking questions about delivery and warranties and got a reply that although answered my questions seemed a little dodgey. I am trying to line a mate up to go instore to check them out for me. 

If it is legitimate it is about 5k cheaper than brand new from the dealer for etecs or about 2.5k for yammies in 60hp models.

Cheers in advance.

[ellicat]

Sounds suss and far too good a deal to me.

A lot of crooks in Canberra.

The ACN provided is invalid. suss

Address is a private residence. suss

[Ovington]

23 minutes ago, ellicat said:

Sounds suss and far too good a deal to me.

A lot of crooks in Canberra.

The ACN provided is invalid. suss

Address is a private residence. suss

Yea I had a bit of a look into the ACN but wasnt sure what I was looking at. Might still try to get my mate to visit and see if we can't catch them out

[Drop Bear]

Nice work @ellicat

[Ovington]

Yea thanks for looking into it for me 

[Drop Bear]

site looks like it has been build in a rush too. lots of format errors. That can be normal if you are inexperienced at web building. slowly slowly catchy monkey. 

[Ovington]

7 minutes ago, Drop Bear said:

site looks like it has been build in a rush too. lots of format errors. That can be normal if you are inexperienced at web building. slowly slowly catchy monkey. 

Yea the ladies reply was very much illiterate and badly formatted too and said the delivery was free and control box was included which just didnt add up. Certainly wary 

[aussie123]

First Outboards is a scam website, one of many that they continually set up under different names.

[Ovington]

8 minutes ago, aussie123 said:

First Outboards is a scam website, one of many that they continually set up under different names.

Thanks mate, thought it must have been. Looks like I will have to bite the bullet and spend big!

[Drop Bear]

3 hours ago, aussie123 said:

First Outboards is a scam website, one of many that they continually set up under different names.

Good on you for getting to the bottom of that mate. That is nasty.

[Drop Bear]

3 hours ago, Ovington said:

Thanks mate, thought it must have been. Looks like I will have to bite the bullet and spend big!

Sounds a lot cheaper than paying half price and getting nothing  Good on you for spotting it