Cars offered at half price
What Car? checked the Miller Car Sales website and found 79 used cars for sale. A 2020 Volvo XC90 2.0 Inscription Pro with 20,000 miles is on the site for £18,400, which is just over £24,000 (56%) less than the price of £42,450 you’d expect to pay from a dealer. Another car, a 2021 Vauxhall Mokka-e SRi Nav Premium with 3300 miles, is on the site for just £14,450, but a What Car? Valuation reveals the dealer price should be £28,500, so the asking price is around half what it should be.
Car Dealer investigated Miller Car Sales by making checks with local businesses, which confirmed there was no showroom with that name in the location specified on the website. A representative of the Scottish Motor Trade Association (SMTA) also visited the address on Car Dealer’s behalf and found no showroom by the name of Millers Car Sales.
So, James Baggott, editor-in-chief of Car Dealer, called Miller Car Sales enquiring about a car that was for sale. When he challenged the company about the address of the showroom, saying he had visited the location and not found the dealership, the person on the other end of the phone hung up.
Baggott believes he was speaking to the same person he had talked to two weeks earlier at another fake company, also purportedly based in Scotland, called AD Car Sales. That company was shut down by the authorities after Car Dealer reported it to them, but Baggott believes the criminals have swiftly created Miller Car Sales to…
