2 Aussies buying a motorhome to travel Europe

[CathyMac]

Whilst we have been investigating the Las Palmas motorhome we are interested in, we have been looking elsewhere too and found one of interest on the leboncoin site in France. Unfortunately we are unable to register on the site as we not from the countries they list as acceptable.

Does anyone know if there is any way to get around this or how I can contact a seller on that site by other means? I have tried searching for that motorhome with the area it is from to see if they have listed it for sale on another site but nothing came up.

Thanks Widge. We have told them we have decided to come to Gran Canaria (when our Societe Civile has been established in France) to inspect the vehicle and they have replied 'OK'. I can not fault their replies to numerous emails but of course that is how a scammer hooks you and reels you in.

Barrie on this forum lives on Gran Canaria and he is kindly doing some sleuthing for us. Firstly we just want to be sure the company actually exists physically. If that turns out OK we can move to the next step.

I have checked their address on 'Google Earth' and there appears to be a company with a similar name in that location so I have used their 'contact us' email from their website to see if they sell vehicles as it only mentions they are a mechanical workshop. Will be interesting to see what comes back if anything. Sophisticated scammers could create a website using information provided by a legitimate setup to suit their scam.

It's an interesting journey!

Widge I am sending you a direct message

 

[eurajohn]

I live in France and have a Leboncoin account, if you DM me the details of the van I'll try to get the answers you want.
I don't think there is a direct work around for the security of Lebocoin as you have to send the message to the web page they then provide your questions to the seller who then sends you a reply via Leboncoin. John

 

[ChrisL]

But for a free online app duo lingo isn't bad.

I've been doing Duo lingo for a while and also Memrise, I think Memrise is more everyday conversational kind of words and even includes some expressions that might be considered profane but that you might hear someone say in the course of a conversation.