The cheek of some people when selling your car
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Just had a similar thing happen to me, guy drives up from Sunderland to me, just north of Glasgow to look at a car I had advertised at £2100. Seemed like a nice guy, absolutely no mention of the price prior to him getting here so I expected to let him haggle 5-10% off my price and take the vehicle. Nope, offers me £1500. Drives 220miles to offer 3/4ths of the asking price. I, very reasonably told him I wasnt wanting to go below £1800, he says £1650 would be him literally flat out. I said no & he gets back in his mates car and leaves. They had driven up in a big early 00s Merc ML so it must have cost them a fair chunk in fuel.
I built a mk 2 golf gti about 15 years ago, fast road spec, a 2l 8v with some nice bits, 160hp on digifant injection, lovely motor in the car, just spot on. it was a rare motor, an old audi 80 3a block, identical to the mk2 block just 2l not 1.8.
I had it about 8 years, and one day the chap who did all the VW cylinder heads and who'd done mine, called me out the blue and asked if i wanted to sell my car, a customer was interested. He was a guy who raced in the mk2 golf championship and bought and sold a few mk 2s.
I said yep, he got in touch, I emailed about 30 photos, exact motor spec, parts bill from Tim Styles proving spec, and I said I wanted £1500, about 2/3 half what the motor cost to build. He agreed, I offered to get a new MOT,did that, and he was coming a long way Sat morning with his trailer for it, would be early, 5am as he was racing later that day.
I asked him to call 30 mins away, as was early on, so id be up and ready, he forgot to and at 515am I heard this trailer rattling down street. Went down, was a bit grumpy that he'd nto called, but was up ok, so no bother, made him a cuppa, he looked around the car, yep all looked good. I showed him the new PAS hose I had fitted as there was a weep noted on MOT, yep all good, then he just says, "it's worth about 800 quid". I said, er what, he says "I bought one yesterday, a F plate 16v for 800 quid. I said, right, but this is a H plate, rally spec motor, with new recaro seats in it, and you agreed 1500 quid.
well it is worth 800....
I said nothing more, turned, went in, closed the door, locked it, went back to bed. He started shouting through letter box, he then called my phone which I ignored, he was getting very shouty and I just ignored him. After 40 mins, I heard his trailer leave the street, and he got on his way 250 miles odd back home.
I thought what a timewasting
, but in the end, he wasted far more than I.
Head guy called and asked WTF happened, this guy told him I refused to sell him the car having come all that way! About 4 months later, head guy told me that matey boy had been thrown out of VW mk 2 cup for running an illegal 2l motor!
He's on here, I think! What a bellend!
I had it about 8 years, and one day the chap who did all the VW cylinder heads and who'd done mine, called me out the blue and asked if i wanted to sell my car, a customer was interested. He was a guy who raced in the mk2 golf championship and bought and sold a few mk 2s.
I said yep, he got in touch, I emailed about 30 photos, exact motor spec, parts bill from Tim Styles proving spec, and I said I wanted £1500, about 2/3 half what the motor cost to build. He agreed, I offered to get a new MOT,did that, and he was coming a long way Sat morning with his trailer for it, would be early, 5am as he was racing later that day.
I asked him to call 30 mins away, as was early on, so id be up and ready, he forgot to and at 515am I heard this trailer rattling down street. Went down, was a bit grumpy that he'd nto called, but was up ok, so no bother, made him a cuppa, he looked around the car, yep all looked good. I showed him the new PAS hose I had fitted as there was a weep noted on MOT, yep all good, then he just says, "it's worth about 800 quid". I said, er what, he says "I bought one yesterday, a F plate 16v for 800 quid. I said, right, but this is a H plate, rally spec motor, with new recaro seats in it, and you agreed 1500 quid.
well it is worth 800....
I said nothing more, turned, went in, closed the door, locked it, went back to bed. He started shouting through letter box, he then called my phone which I ignored, he was getting very shouty and I just ignored him. After 40 mins, I heard his trailer leave the street, and he got on his way 250 miles odd back home.
I thought what a timewasting
, but in the end, he wasted far more than I. Head guy called and asked WTF happened, this guy told him I refused to sell him the car having come all that way! About 4 months later, head guy told me that matey boy had been thrown out of VW mk 2 cup for running an illegal 2l motor!
He's on here, I think! What a bellend!
hoppo4.2 said:
So I have a car up for sale. Guy contacts me from a long way away. Asked all the right questions negotiated a good price for him. I waited for a few weeks for him to get flights etc. Turns up looks round all good then casualy drops in "I've only got £xx now but that's fine isn't it?"
Now £xx is 1k under what we had agreed.
He was genuinely surprised when I said no.
"But I've come miles etc"
Sorry you wasted your time and mine best book your self a flight home.
His face was a picture.
Really can't believe the nerve of some people
I can give you pretty much the opposite of this.........Now £xx is 1k under what we had agreed.
He was genuinely surprised when I said no.
"But I've come miles etc"
Sorry you wasted your time and mine best book your self a flight home.
His face was a picture.
Really can't believe the nerve of some people
I was selling a bike, via an MCN advert.
Guy calls, sounds sensible, asks the right questions and then says that he'll be with me in 6 hours.
He arrives in a taxi, dressed in leathers, carrying a crash helmet, having flown from Belfast to Heathrow.
No hint of a haggle. Just pays and rides away.
Perfect.
So buying a different car the day before for a different price means yours is worth 1/2? Wow. Idiot. Recently I listed a really good car. I had various time waster calls with one saying 'look, help me out. You sound like a really decent bloke but do the right thing and take 2k off'.
At one point I thought it was one of my mates putting someone upto it to wind me up. It was that daft.
At one point I thought it was one of my mates putting someone upto it to wind me up. It was that daft.
I have an opposite story to the thread norm.
Had an Alfasud for sale in 2008. Price was £4,000. Chap contacted me from Northern Ireland and asked all the right questions. Sent him many many photos of it. Went quiet on me for a few weeks and then was back in touch looking for a few more photos. He then said without having seen it in real life, he would take it unseen at the asking price. A few days later I got a letter in the post containing a cheque for £2,500 and a cheque for £1,500.
I put them into my ISA and they cleared without any issues. It took the buyer nearly 4 months to arrange collection!! For nearly 16 weeks I had £4K and 'his' car.
Pat H on here has a similar tale regarding the sale of his Ferrari 328.
Had an Alfasud for sale in 2008. Price was £4,000. Chap contacted me from Northern Ireland and asked all the right questions. Sent him many many photos of it. Went quiet on me for a few weeks and then was back in touch looking for a few more photos. He then said without having seen it in real life, he would take it unseen at the asking price. A few days later I got a letter in the post containing a cheque for £2,500 and a cheque for £1,500.
I put them into my ISA and they cleared without any issues. It took the buyer nearly 4 months to arrange collection!! For nearly 16 weeks I had £4K and 'his' car.
Pat H on here has a similar tale regarding the sale of his Ferrari 328.
I must say, I've had far less hassles buying and selling privately than through traders.
There was one car I'd taken a deposit on but the trader selling me it's replacement hadn't done the work promised.
That would have left me without a car.
The buyer of my old car was happy for me to keep my car for another 6 weeks until I found a replacement.
There was one car I'd taken a deposit on but the trader selling me it's replacement hadn't done the work promised.
That would have left me without a car.
The buyer of my old car was happy for me to keep my car for another 6 weeks until I found a replacement.
Had a spares or repairs Audi A4 cabriolet for sale on an eBay auction and as I was flying to Australia for four months the next week I just wanted it gone. I had loads of offers to buy the car and eventually I got an offer which was the minimum I would accept for the car. I told the guy if he could come and collect it that weekend he could have it and I would cancel the auction.
The next day the auction was only 100 pounds less than the price we agreed (with four days to go) but I just wanted it gone so was still happy to let it go for the price agreed.
The guy drove 250 miles to collect it and turned up at 10:00PM with his son and started looking over it with a torch. They told me they were off banger racing the next day and they came across as a bit 3.42 Key.
Anyway, guy starts asking me about the issues that I had been 100% honest about in the advert, I honestly think he thought he was going to collect a car with zero issues for about 40% of what it would be worth with the issues fixed. He wanted to take it for a test drive and told me he had a traders policy. Didn't believe him so I took him for a quick drive. The whole experience was very, very awkward I thought I was doing him a favour virtually giving it away and he started to get quite intimidating.
If I had known how awkward he was going to be I would have told him to jog on and no doubt got another 50% for the car.
The next day the auction was only 100 pounds less than the price we agreed (with four days to go) but I just wanted it gone so was still happy to let it go for the price agreed.
The guy drove 250 miles to collect it and turned up at 10:00PM with his son and started looking over it with a torch. They told me they were off banger racing the next day and they came across as a bit 3.42 Key.
Anyway, guy starts asking me about the issues that I had been 100% honest about in the advert, I honestly think he thought he was going to collect a car with zero issues for about 40% of what it would be worth with the issues fixed. He wanted to take it for a test drive and told me he had a traders policy. Didn't believe him so I took him for a quick drive. The whole experience was very, very awkward I thought I was doing him a favour virtually giving it away and he started to get quite intimidating.
If I had known how awkward he was going to be I would have told him to jog on and no doubt got another 50% for the car.
I went on Gumtree and sold some tyres a few months ago. I bought the alloys and tyres purely for the alloys so I could put winter tyres on. So I had 4 tyres languishing in the shed for a while. I put an advert on: 4 premium Conti tyres, 7mm tread, evenly worn, no puncture reapirs, VGC, manufacturing code to show they were only 2.5 years old etc etc £35 each or all 4 for £120. Collection only after 6pm or weekends.
Cue the deluge of texts. 95% of the texts were numerical texts: "80", "50", "100", "£90". The "50" number called up and said they were only worth £50 for all 4 and he was doing me a favour. I googled his number and it was a local part worn tyre place. The timewasters continued with one guy offering £80 delivered to Colchester!
In the end a politely constructed text came offering the full £120 subject to inspection. A mature gent turned up the next day and the deal was done. His wife had been oblivious to driving around on bald tyres for several months.
Cue the deluge of texts. 95% of the texts were numerical texts: "80", "50", "100", "£90". The "50" number called up and said they were only worth £50 for all 4 and he was doing me a favour. I googled his number and it was a local part worn tyre place. The timewasters continued with one guy offering £80 delivered to Colchester!
In the end a politely constructed text came offering the full £120 subject to inspection. A mature gent turned up the next day and the deal was done. His wife had been oblivious to driving around on bald tyres for several months.
Nobby Diesel said:
I can give you pretty much the opposite of this.........
I was selling a bike, via an MCN advert.
Guy calls, sounds sensible, asks the right questions and then says that he'll be with me in 6 hours.
He arrives in a taxi, dressed in leathers, carrying a crash helmet, having flown from Belfast to Heathrow.
No hint of a haggle. Just pays and rides away.
Perfect.
Every single car and bike ive sold in france has been exactly the same (20 odd of each) apart from a C6 vette, totally gobsmacked at how easy it is to sell a good example of a car in France, no haggling whatsoever, even had one guy buy me lunch, many coffees bought for me to, unbelievably easy compared to UK experiences.I was selling a bike, via an MCN advert.
Guy calls, sounds sensible, asks the right questions and then says that he'll be with me in 6 hours.
He arrives in a taxi, dressed in leathers, carrying a crash helmet, having flown from Belfast to Heathrow.
No hint of a haggle. Just pays and rides away.
Perfect.
I once sold a Defender 110 on ebay. I can't remember how much it sold for - around £7000 I think. A trader won it who refurbishes Defenders and sells them for lots. He went over it with a fine tooth comb, moaning about a small dent in a crossmember and a long repaired rear cross member. He told me it wasn't good enough for him to sell through his normal channels, but would give me £6000. I just wanted it sold so accepted it. Two weeks later it was on his website for £12,000, I should have followed the good example of the posters on here and would do in future!!!
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