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Auto Express one, car clockers nil! We have scored a major victory in the ongoing battle against crooks who wind back the mileage of vehicles to rip off motorists. The move follows an undercover investigation into the way criminals are secretly using the popular www.ebay.co.uk auction website. Sellers were offering to clock cars for £40 a time, allowing dodgy dealers to falsify a motor’s history and net thousands of pounds in profit. And we know this, because we’ve done it! Posing as someone interested in these so-called ‘mileage correction’ services, we actually got two cars clocked instantly, increasing their value by an incredible £3,000. When we told eBay what we’d done - and, more importantly, how we’d done it - its spokesman thanked us for bringing the problem to his attention. After speaking to the site’s lawyers, he said: “We are revising our policies so that, in future, these listings will be taken down as soon as we are made aware of them.” The spokesman explained that eBay will soon be launching an “encouraging illegal activity” policy, which these clockers would infringe. “It means that if a sale is found to be doing that, it will be taken down from the site,” he added.

Posted: 06|20|06 at 7:12 am. Filed under: UK News.