Conniff, I will not post the crime number on a public forum, As posted the police have started an investigation. Feel free to delete any more of my posts as this is a public forum.

Well at last the lancashire constabulary are investigating Mr Long for " alleged " fraud, maybe justice will be forthcomming

Sailor Sam, the high court sheriffs like to bump up the debt with charges and costs, you can see how quickly debts esculate!! Ive started the ball rolling and have a couple of questions. Is it ok to pm you. Thanks for your help

Thanks Sailor Sam, I thought the debt had to be over £5000 to use the high court sheriffs.

It seems everyones gone quiet Sailor Sam,lets hope they havent given up!! I'm just waiting for him to crawl out from under his rock so i can send in the bailiffs. Im looking at using a debt recovery service since they are more used to finding crooks like Andy Long and their charges will just be added to the debt.

Seems not

It seems his dealer page has disappeared from auto trader, is he still trading at Leigh rd????? I have lots of his car regs so will keep scanning the ad pages and see where he pops up next. If anyone knows anything else keep us posted. MR LONG YOU WILL GO TO JAIL

Right at least one of his cars have appeared forsale in a garage in Blackburn, the garage was registered as a ltd company in july last year TS should have no problem seeing who the directors are and if they have any links with Andy Long, the garage also does MOT's aswell which is right up his alley. Its probably nothing to do with him but "no stone unturned" and all that..

Everyones been busy inc Mr Long reading these pages it would be interesting if marcsleigh's address is correct, Is his door number 23???? One of his cars has appeared forsale in a garage in Blackburn. Is he upping sticks again???

Update, he is now calling himself Richard Atherton, Atherton Car Sales, Leigh Rd, Atherton, Manchester.. 01942 871777.... Hope he dont move to Gotham or he will be calling himself Batman

TS are building a case against him, its just a question of how long it will take.

This guy is unbelieveable, he is advertising Leigh Rd, Atherton, Manchester M460LX now! I wonder where he will be ripping people off next week??

At least that will save fuel costs when they take him to jail

Teajunkie, Autotrader aren't worried who he rips off as he advertises too many cars with them, i will never deal with Autotrader again, at least with other ways of buying and selling cars you can get an idea who you are dealing with!! So can anyone confirm if Andy Long is now operating out of Spring Gardens, Grange Lane, Accrington, BB5 2BT because the adverts on Autotraders map still point to Heys Lane.

No, trading standards are looking into now and he has a CCJ against him at Heys Lane (probably one of many), I just need to decide where to send the warrant of execution, if only I could find his home address!

Andrew Long has changed his name yet again (surprise surprise) to Central Motor Company, supposedly in Accrington. Is he still operating out of Heys Lane? or has he moved his whole operation to BB52BT? Where do I send the bailiffs? At least Trading Standards are investigating him, you never know maybe one day he will end up behind bars where he belongs!! Now where are those flying pigs.

Mr Longs car reg number is S4LBM it would be a result if we could find his home address and serve court papers to him there! That would make me smile.

Conniff, the first person i delt with at CAB agreed it was a criminal not civil offence and i wouldn't need to go down the small claims route but heyho it seems he was the only one with that opinion, he deserves to go to prision and i count myself as one of the lucky ones by not getting a dodgy car from him. Jaydles, i will email Mark tomorrow but the CAB reported my situation to TS hence the earlier response, The first letter i sent by recorded post and was delivered resulting in £400 being paid back , the second was refused and returned to me,after speaking to the CAB i was advised to send any letters first class with 'proof of posting' which is enough evidence he has received the letters. The last letter came directly from the court via first class post and they deem it "served" two days after posting it, so I am told.

Hi Jaydles, Surely my case would help in the prosecution of Mr Long, i paid direct into his bank account and have numerous texts with him, he even paid some of the money back. Even after readvertising the same car for sale, trading standards in the words from CAB "are offering no assistance whatsoever". The county court claim form should have dropped through his letterbox Friday. The police, watchdog, trading standards, vosa and even the inland revenue seem only to be after " easy targets" and Not rip off merchants like Andrew Long.

It looks like the andy longs of this world can do what they want, CAB have been very helpful but ts are not in the least bit interested. The car I paid for has been readvertised forsale and TS don't care. Small claims court here I come. Auto trader don't seem to want to loose his business. Wish me luck

Someones on the ball, his latest number is 07454391224 and he still appears to be running out of Heys Lane, the name and numbers different but the cars and location are still the same, please don't tell me that omits him from any previous wrongdoings.

Update, I've done a bit of digging and have got 50 reg numbers Of cars Mr Long is currently selling 30 with advertised mileages so it will be easy for trading standards or VOSA to check if any have been clocked or written off, there are new phone numbers appearing all over his adverts and a new postcode, it appears he is on the move, I have a hunch he may be renaming himself as Village Cars. Mr Andy Long also seems to find ripping me off funny and has been sending texts asking for more personal details. This guy is a complete moron and needs to be taken down a peg or two. Does anyone know what this guy looks like or does he just hide under his lies and scams, and does anyone live near bb19sr Who can check if he is relocating.

Spoke to CAB today and we have a plan, won't divulge too much at the moment but the more people complain about this con man the quicker we will get results. Lancashire CAB 08454040506. It appears Mr long is changing companies again, this evening two new mobile numbers have appeared 0754391224 and 07544391224 now I haven't tested them yet but everyone else feel free. We have to stop this fraudster

Thanks Sailor Sam thats my next port of call. Andy long is selling cars on autotrader currently as LMC, i have paid for a car and ended up with nowt, this guy has no morals and is a complete con artist. I have filed a report with the police action fraud line and that is only the beginning. I cannot understand how people like him can just change the names of himself and his company willy nilly ripping people off every step of the way and get away with it! As usual the crooks have more protection than the victims.

Seems like mr andy long is still up to no good. Visiting the police to make a statement tomorrow then I will update in the evening. Wish i had checked on here before!!