TradeCarViewReviews 17

Here are some tips to avoid getting scammed by those little rascals on TC-V

1) Always ask for an auction sheet.
Fact: Most cars listed there are bought at auction and will give you a good items of the condition of the car. If you do not speak Japanese you can use google translate to assist you with translating the auction sheet. Some may not have an auction sheet as the vehicle may have been purchased privately, If so move to tip #2.

2) Always, always and always ASK FOR THE VEHICLE EXPORT CERTIFICATE.
This is an official document issued for all vehicles that are to be exported from japan. If includes the correct vehicle vin / chassis number, along with the correct mileage of the vehicle. In my case those scammers deliberately covered up the mileage on the document before sending me photos of the export certificate and i was completely unaware of this until it was too late. So ensure that the document has all these details. I have attached a photo of and example of an export certificate. I have highlighted in red the chassis number of the vehicle and in green the mileage of the vehicle. The mileage at the top will be the most recent mileage.

3) Request many photos
Request as many photos as possible. Some sellers tend to display very dull photos on their listings to hide details of the vehicle, If there isn't enough photos ask them to take more photos and email them to you. Photos of font, rear, sides and the under body of the vehicle as many of those vehicle may have rust on the under body so the sellers will neglect to take a photo of the under body of the vehicle. In my case, they had about 6 photos and they deliberately did not photo the front windshield to hide the large crack.

I hope this helps you all. Best of luck.

They have sent a damaged car when they guaranteed Warrant of Fitness in New Zealand. Even inspection gave it a clean chit. My Compliance Center says they havd never seen such a rusted vehicle in the past. Most probably it was tsunami damaged vehicle.
Numerous emails and every time I was asked to fill in complaint form on the portal. No action was taken by them and stopped even replying afterwards. Phoned them few times. Every time a new operator whose english was extremely poor making you frustrated. They simply repeat their sentence to complaint on the sites form. I followed the cause for almost 8 months. Then had to give up as it was claiming my peace. THEY ARE CHEATS.

I bought a Toyota Crown off tradecarview auction website, from the seller car light corporation, the car is not getting registered in UK because the export certificate has been altered from the standard as the car was registered as a commercial vehicle in japan and it has to be modified for this purpose from the new, the ministry or transport has removed its classification and specification number from the certificate, These numbers are needed for a car to go through IVA testing in UK before registration, I contacted car light corporation and tradecarview many times to offer a solution as these details were missing from the advertisement but they newer offered any solution, also the car needed new tires and engine oil leak sorting out before going through MOT, unfortunately this website serves in favor of fraudulent sellers as it gets their charges from them and don't bother about the buyer at all, I thing we should try to boycott this website till they change their operation strategy.

Collect my Car from Southampton Docks. Door Trim was damaged paint scraped off the plastic moulding the fill length of the car, Scrapes marks on rear bumper, Gear Knob and radio volume button is missing. All the faults were not mentioned in the car advertising.

I have tried to contact them via their EMAIL system which worked before taking delivery of the car. They no longer reply too.

I was informed the car had been shipped in June and on inquiry on documents not received the car was only shipped in July.

I have used tradecarview payment service a few weeks ago to import a car to Kenya. After I wired the money to their bank account, though my bank gave me a firm confirmation that the transaction was completed, trade car view Kenya did not see the money for many days. I had to call their bank in Muthaiga twice and follow up every day, four days latter, they confirmed me over the phone they've seen the money. For them to confirm the money reception to the seller, it was a nightmare and endless waiting time. I'm writing this review while the seller still does not have the confirmation of the money recived by carview, hopefully with more follow ups and phone calls, there might be a slight change.