Nick Aylieff of Classic Motors For Sale is a shyster who is willing to lie and deceive to get valuable confidential information from unsuspecting fellow dealers.
He came to my partner claiming to have a Ferrari 250 GTO for approximately $60m.
We have 3 capable, and potential private buyers. The commission on such a sale is between $250K & $350K EACH!
I spoke to him and said the only way I can give up my contact to the buyer is 100% assurances from him that he did indeed, up to the minute, have such a car, and it was definately available.
He said absolutely for certain he had it, and it was available, so I gave him the contact info to the buyers rep, and stated that this was absolutely confidential information not to be shared.
That was basically the last I heard from the rip off, but when I spoke to the buyers rep a few days later he told me that Nick had made contact with him, but miraculously the car had been sold!
I sent Nick an email saying that if his car had been sold, and was gone, then tell me the vin number of it to confirm that there had even originally been a car. He never sent anything. The reason is there was no car, but a ploy to dupe me with lies to get a very valuable asset.
A week or two later I found out that the earthworm had gone back to my buyers rep secretly, and claimed to have another car.
He kept this secret, and never informed me or my partner Tony about this, because the greedy SOB wanted to keep the commission completely for himself, and another dealer who supposidly had the car.
It was a violation of our understanding to share our confidential buyer with anyone else, and of course he tried to hijack our deal, and cut Tony and I out of it, even though we brought it to the table.
This same scenario exactly happen a month before rip off Nick with ANOTHER dealer who did exactly the same thing.
Mike Bohannon assured us he had a Ferrari 250 GTO, so we put him in touch with the buyers rep, with the exact same result.
Car had miraculously just been sold, but now he had the buyers contact info. A week or two later he tried to go in the back door with another dealer who claimed to have another car.
Both of these slugs had EXACTLY the same M.O. and both made a big deal asking if I was next to the buyer, or how many involved.
The greedy reason is the wanted everything for themselves, and other dealers need fair warning about what to expect with these kinds of guys.
They will step on others to get what they want but are unwilling to share. Nick is in Bangkok, originally out of the UK. I suspect there is probably a good reason that he is in a place like that. Probably got run out of the UK!