Man excited to pick up cheap Corvette realizes he’s fell for the ‘Corvette scam’ looking set to cost him $30,000

This man was excited to pick up a cheap Corvette but then realized he’d fallen for the ‘Corvette scam’ which was set to cost him $30,000.

YouTuber Samcrac thought he’d snagged himself a bargain when he picked up a Z06 Corvette at an auction for $28,800.

Although the car was listed with a grade of 4.7 out of 5, this wasn’t the reality.

There were a ton of issues at work, and this buyer faced an uphill battle to get a happy resolution.

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The cheap Corvette that was too good to be true

Sam, the host of the channel, had done a lot of work with Corvettes previously and was excited to get his hands on this Z06.

It would be transported from the dealer’s lot in Illinois down to Sam in Florida.

Quite a long trip, though certainly not as long as what this billionaire undertook in order to get his cars from LA to Paris, France.

But when it came time to pick it up, the problems began.

Thirty minutes after he was told his Z06 was being loaded onto a trailer, he received a text telling him that the clutch had seemingly been broken.

To cut a long story short, the driver picking up the Corvette already had a truck on his trailer that had a dead battery.

This driver had used the Corvette to jumpstart the truck and apparently damaged the clutch.

And to make matters worse, all the responsibility for this was being put on Sam.

So, not a great start.

Despite Sam asking for footage of the incident, his request was not granted.

Even appealing to the auction house didn’t seem to help much, as Sam believed they were biased towards the seller.

“‘Well, your driver broke the clutch,’ they said,” Sam explained.

“I explained the hydraulic problems these cars sometimes have, but it was in one ear and out the other.”

What happened when a mechanic took a look at the car

With the help of a friend, Sam got the car from the dealer’s lot to a mechanic to have the pedal issue looked at.

It was found that the Corvette had a LS3 engine instead of the promised LS7.

Sam speculated that the switch may have come after the original engine was blown out, given that the Z06 looked as it’d seen a lot of track use.

In addition to that, there was dirty clutch fluid in the reservoir.

All in all, not a great result, in addition to all the hassle.

So what was left to do?

Sam began the arbitration process, hoping to recoup the $30,000, but it ultimately went in the seller’s favor.

But things weren’t over yet – the car had a ‘Deal Shield’ guarantee.

This meant that the car could be returned for a full refund within 20 days of purchase.

And that’s exactly Sam did.

He later discovered that the Z06 had previously been listed with a 1.7 grading, significantly lower than what he was told.

Although he’d fallen for the ‘Corvette Scam’, he’d been lucky enough to get his money back.

Buyers always have to be wary of scams when it comes to buying secondhand cars.

This British YouTuber was left feeling scammed after he got himself an extremely cheap Volkswagen T-Roc R.

To see the full breakdown of this nightmarish $30,000 scam, head over to Samcrac’s YouTube channel.