Farm & Ag Equipment scams

How it runs

Buying tractors, combines, and implements from a seller you cannot visit

The machine in the listing is real. A 2018 John Deere 6155R with 2,400 hours, a Case IH 8250 with a header included, photographed on a clean concrete pad — because the photographs were lifted from a genuine dealer listing and the price was cut by a third. That discount is the entire mechanism. Buyers who know the market read it as a retirement auction, an estate dispersal, or a dealer clearing floorplan, and they move fast because they assume someone else will. Contact stays on email and text; the phone number goes to voicemail or cannot receive calls at all. Cards are refused, a cashier's check drawn at your own bank is refused, and a visit to the yard is always one week away because the machine is already loaded on a trailer. What is accepted is a wire transfer or a Zelle payment to a personal name that does not match the business, against a promise of delivery in three to five days with a full refund if you turn it away on arrival. No trailer ever comes.