Receiving money from France for selling a vehicle.

experiences / suggestions please

TL:DR

We ( well my wife ) owns a vintage vehicle she wants to sell. It’s proven harder than we thought despite theoretically being desirable ( restored vintage Vw camper)

Theres a guy in France that seems very keen to buy it and so far doesn’t seem to be a scammer but obviously that’s in the back of my mind.

Assuming he’s on the level, he would need to pay us and then have someone collect the vehicle and deliver to him in France.

How feasible is this? How can he send us the money and is there any export stuff we would need to be aware of or is that nothing to do with us once he’s paid?

is there a scam angle I’m missing?

TIA…

He wants it he pays in gbp on collection. Export is his problem, not yours

A recent thread on here mentioned the bottom has dropped out of the classic VW camper market funnily enough.

Anyway, out of curiosity, is it rhd or left?

If rhd I wonder why he wants it?

For payment he just calls his bank and tells them to deposit GBP into your bank account. It’s not complex though it may not be instant just wait for cleared funds. I’ve done it both ways from my high street UK account in and out of EU.

Or he could pay using Wise

Bruneep has the answer, too many other potential pitfalls. If I was buying a vehicle I would want to inspect it anyway so it seems a bit unusual that someone would buy from a private seller without inspection.

It’s a LHD vehicle ( originally from USA )

I agree it’s unusual but I suspect they may not be as easy to get hold of in France.  We had someone else come and see it who was based in France and restored / sold VWs there.

I think he’s saying it may take 4 days for funds to clear and it does seem

reasonable he wouldn’t want to come over and agree to buy her then have to hang around 4 days waiting for it to clear before he can set off home?

International wire transfers are effectively immediate, or he can come over with a big wodge of GBP he can withdraw from his bank and pay you cash right there. How much money are we talking?

International wire transfers are effectively immediate

Usually not.  1-6 days