Price and pressure
- Pricing 30–40% below market for the year and hours
- Deposit demanded before any inspection, in person or by live video
- Manufactured urgency — “other buyers are on it today”
Identity and paperwork
- Wire payee name differs from the invoice or registry name
- No active state corporate filing for the seller name
- Terms and condition claims that exist only in chat messages
Location and contact
- The listed address satellites to a house, vacant lot, or office suite
- Published phone never answered in business hours
- Five-figure invoices sent from free webmail addresses
Photos and listings
- Listing photos reverse-image-match other sites or auction archives
- Seller refuses a serial-plate and cold-start video of the exact unit
- Inventory that never changes month to month
The positive test is the inverse: the five checks. See every published verification report.