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I've been looking for a new to me car for a while and been noticing lots of adds where the seller in his pics of the vehicle tells you to only contact them on a quite odd looking email address. All these adds are too good to be true so is it the old collect email addresses scam or what?
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Probably, a self selecting list of people who fall for 'too good to be true' scams?
Taking the transaction outside of ebay also takes you outside of ebay's protection. The whys and wherefores aside, it's surely a scam.
Theyre the most common scam, normally on a Saturday and people falling for the too good an offer, if you contact them it'll be the cars in Scotland and we'll transport it to you, here's a link to pay a deposit, etc etc. be very careful, never buy without viewing or paying cash on collection.
And of course that message is rubbish, eBay stores the messsges, they just email you to say you have one. If you're selling a car and have an overly voracious spam filter surely you just login once a day. Or whitelist eBay mails.
Step away now.
As everyone says, its a scammer. Its to establish a line of comms outside Ebay/Gumtree before they get the ad shutdown by someone reporting them.