Help! Advice on private sale gone terribly wrong :-(
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k me it's gone from strength to strength!pinchmeimdreamin said:
I found it 
look you can see the girlfriend dropping it off.............
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.5865736,-6.37687...
Wrong port for islay look you can see the girlfriend dropping it off.............https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.5865736,-6.37687...
haggishunter said:
pinchmeimdreamin said:
I found it look you can see the girlfriend dropping it off.............
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.5865736,-6.37687...
Wrong port for islay look you can see the girlfriend dropping it off.............https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.5865736,-6.37687...
It was your girlfriend wasn't it
pinchmeimdreamin said:
haggishunter said:
pinchmeimdreamin said:
I found it look you can see the girlfriend dropping it off.............
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.5865736,-6.37687...
Wrong port for islay look you can see the girlfriend dropping it off.............https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.5865736,-6.37687...
It was your girlfriend wasn't it
OP,
I think you need to work out where this car, registered to you, actually is.
Ring the ferryport that the car is supposedly at, ask for the security office, tell them your (sob) story and ask them nicely if they've noticed it / can spot it. If it is there, I'm sure it can't be free to park there, forever. Being the registered keeper, when it comes to annoy someone, it will be your problem. Even if that is just removal / crushing fee's.
If it is there, you need to decide if you want it back or want it gone. Back will cost you (more) money, but you will have the car. If you want it gone, I'd speak to your now friendly security man.
If it is not there, then you need to notify the authorities that you've kinda, permently, lost your car, kinda sorta thing. It may well be in parts on ebay or in a crate to africa and to be honest, both of those would be a result compared to being used for nefarious activities somewhere by people of moral turpitude. Whilst it's registered to you. I have no idea if there is enough in your tale to get a genuine crime number, but if so one of those could be useful to you.
As you know you've been silly and been had. If you can find the car, you need to decide if you want to plough any more time and money into this "good pub story" (personally, I'd give the car to the finder and write it all off as a bad lot) and if you can't you need to protect yourself against the stream of NIPS and the police turning up after it's planted through a posh jewellers window. Unlikely, but possible.
I think you need to work out where this car, registered to you, actually is.
Ring the ferryport that the car is supposedly at, ask for the security office, tell them your (sob) story and ask them nicely if they've noticed it / can spot it. If it is there, I'm sure it can't be free to park there, forever. Being the registered keeper, when it comes to annoy someone, it will be your problem. Even if that is just removal / crushing fee's.
If it is there, you need to decide if you want it back or want it gone. Back will cost you (more) money, but you will have the car. If you want it gone, I'd speak to your now friendly security man.
If it is not there, then you need to notify the authorities that you've kinda, permently, lost your car, kinda sorta thing. It may well be in parts on ebay or in a crate to africa and to be honest, both of those would be a result compared to being used for nefarious activities somewhere by people of moral turpitude. Whilst it's registered to you. I have no idea if there is enough in your tale to get a genuine crime number, but if so one of those could be useful to you.
As you know you've been silly and been had. If you can find the car, you need to decide if you want to plough any more time and money into this "good pub story" (personally, I'd give the car to the finder and write it all off as a bad lot) and if you can't you need to protect yourself against the stream of NIPS and the police turning up after it's planted through a posh jewellers window. Unlikely, but possible.
scdan4 said:
OP,
I think you need to work out where this car, registered to you, actually is.
Ring the ferryport that the car is supposedly at, ask for the security office, tell them your (sob) story and ask them nicely if they've noticed it / can spot it. If it is there, I'm sure it can't be free to park there, forever. Being the registered keeper, when it comes to annoy someone, it will be your problem. Even if that is just removal / crushing fee's.
I'm hoping to pick it up tonight. I have been told the keys are at the freight office across the water, and it's parked nearby.I think you need to work out where this car, registered to you, actually is.
Ring the ferryport that the car is supposedly at, ask for the security office, tell them your (sob) story and ask them nicely if they've noticed it / can spot it. If it is there, I'm sure it can't be free to park there, forever. Being the registered keeper, when it comes to annoy someone, it will be your problem. Even if that is just removal / crushing fee's.
Time will tell, but I'll update this thread.
Got lots of offers from people in London, with foreign-sounding names, but I had to pour cold water on their idea of coming to fetch it - after the mammoth journey to get here there's the small matter of 550 miles to get back there!
Will let you know whether it arrives or not...
At last, the saga is at an end :-)
I collected the vehicle from the ferry at the end of last week and checked it out. It was exactly as described, and certainly not a 'heap', just a two-owner low-mileage car in need of a little mechanical tlc at scrap money pricing.
The offers continued to flood in, including one from a chap in Northern Ireland who would have spent nigh on £500 to come and get it.
I got a tempting offer from a lady who wanted to pay by postal order, which I thought was a bit dodgy? In the end it sold to a hotelier on the Scottish mainland, who came across on the ferry, took it for a gentle drive and paid me cash. He seemed absolutely delighted with it - and so he should!
I also sold a motorbike to a chap in Aberdeen at the weekend. Again, I had to put it on the ferry and have it delivered, but lesson learnt, he paid for it in full before it was put on and was likewise also delighted.
Phew...lesson learnt!
I collected the vehicle from the ferry at the end of last week and checked it out. It was exactly as described, and certainly not a 'heap', just a two-owner low-mileage car in need of a little mechanical tlc at scrap money pricing.
The offers continued to flood in, including one from a chap in Northern Ireland who would have spent nigh on £500 to come and get it.
I got a tempting offer from a lady who wanted to pay by postal order, which I thought was a bit dodgy? In the end it sold to a hotelier on the Scottish mainland, who came across on the ferry, took it for a gentle drive and paid me cash. He seemed absolutely delighted with it - and so he should!
I also sold a motorbike to a chap in Aberdeen at the weekend. Again, I had to put it on the ferry and have it delivered, but lesson learnt, he paid for it in full before it was put on and was likewise also delighted.
Phew...lesson learnt!
islaydan said:
At last, the saga is at an end :-)
I collected the vehicle from the ferry at the end of last week and checked it out.
.....Phew...lesson learnt!
You sir are a very lucky man, and it's fortunate that you have found someone even remotely trustworthy who stuck to his word and left it at a ferry port as described (or not as the case may be).I collected the vehicle from the ferry at the end of last week and checked it out.
.....Phew...lesson learnt!
Thanks for a good read, pleased you've recovered it and since sold it on(hopefully at a higher price to cover your costs!).
giger said:
You sir are a very lucky man, and it's fortunate that you have found someone even remotely trustworthy who stuck to his word and left it at a ferry port as described (or not as the case may be).
Thanks for a good read, pleased you've recovered it and since sold it on(hopefully at a higher price to cover your costs!).
Glad you enjoyed the saga.Thanks for a good read, pleased you've recovered it and since sold it on(hopefully at a higher price to cover your costs!).
Taking into account the extra expense with the return ferry, and the bargain price I let it go for, I made £140 profit...
The bike made about £290 in profit.
Got my eye on a category C Ducati ST3 as my next project, so that'll be another thread!
islaydan said:
Glad you enjoyed the saga.
Taking into account the extra expense with the return ferry, and the bargain price I let it go for, I made £140 profit...
The bike made about £290 in profit.
Got my eye on a category C Ducati ST3 as my next project, so that'll be another thread!
Take this as a warning.Taking into account the extra expense with the return ferry, and the bargain price I let it go for, I made £140 profit...
The bike made about £290 in profit.
Got my eye on a category C Ducati ST3 as my next project, so that'll be another thread!
You really need to stick to the vanilla stuff mate
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