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Superior Equipment & Rental, trading at superiorequipandrent.com and listing a business address at 2231 Park St, Sheldon, Iowa, is the subject of a filed buyer report. The buyer states he wired $26,000 for a 2017 Kubota SVL95-2S compact track loader advertised on the company's own listing page, and that the machine was never delivered and the money was never returned. The advertised price sits well below the going rate for that model. We are publishing the report as filed while verification continues. Until it is resolved, treat any request from this seller to wire funds as unsafe.
Ridgeway Tractor Exchange lists compact and utility tractors at 30 to 35 per cent below market and describes itself as a broker matching private sellers with buyers. It has no verifiable business registration, will not disclose the location of any machine before a deposit, and directs payment to a personal account. Two buyers report deposits totalling $17,400 that produced neither a tractor nor a refund. Verification is continuing; there is no safe way to transact in the meantime.
Redline Fleet Disposal advertises Freightliner and Peterbilt sleeper tractors as a leasing company's end-of-term disposal, at prices 35 to 40 per cent below comparable fleet sales. The DOT and MC numbers printed on its paperwork belong to a working carrier in another state that has no connection to it. Three owner-operators report paying deposits totalling $61,800, none of which produced a truck. Verification is still running and no criminal finding has been made, but there is currently no safe way to transact with this seller.
Heartland Ag Liquidators advertises late-model John Deere and Case IH tractors and combines at roughly half of market, presenting itself as an estate and retirement auction clearing house in western Iowa. Every machine photograph on the site was taken from live listings on established equipment marketplaces. Six buyers wired a combined $412,000 to personal-name bank accounts against promised delivery windows of three to five days. No machine has ever been delivered, and the yard address is a fenced gravel lot with no inventory on it.
Bellwether Classic Motors advertises documented muscle cars and restorations below auction comparables, moves every conversation off the marketplace where the buyer found it, and routes payment through an escrow company that exists only as a page on its own server. Four collectors reported a combined $233,000, most of it lost at the second extraction, where a transport company controlled by the same operator demands an enclosed shipping bond after the car has already been paid for.
Summit Coach & RV Brokers sold Class A motorhomes and fifth wheels that did not exist, using a bereavement or deployment story to explain why the unit could not be viewed and routing every buyer to an invented escrow and transport company it controlled. Seven buyers lost a combined $196,400, several of it in gift cards purchased under the belief they were funding a marketplace purchase protection programme. The site went offline in August 2026; the same photographs and bank details have since appeared on two further domains.
RVs & Campers
Paid
$196.4K
Buyers
7
Domain age
12 months
Updated
19 days ago
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What buyers actually lost
These figures are the sum of payments stated by the buyers who reported them. Treat every one as a floor. Most people who lose a deposit on a machine never file anything anywhere.
Seven checks that catch nearly every fraudulent equipment seller: domain age, reverse image search, the state business register, the dealer licence, the premises, the payment route, and the fee that arrives after you have already paid.
What to do in the first hours, which payment routes can still be recalled and which cannot, where to file by state and federally, and why the recovery agent who contacts you next is the second scam.
Send the website, the invoice, the bank details, and the message history. Every submission is checked against objective records before anything is published under a seller's name.