Return of Deposit from Private Buyer
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Son in Law paid a hundred pound deposit (car cost just under a grand) on a small car for my Daughter from a private seller. He said the car is in good condition with a low mileage but had no V5, MOT's or service history (advertised as full SH) as the guy has recently moved house and sent off the V5 to show change of address.
Move on a couple of weeks and guy sends him a message saying V5 is now back, but DVLA still have all the other paperwork i.e. Service history, receipts for bought parts and MOT cert's. He has asked when my SIL would like to collect car, so I have told him to query why he sent service history to DVLA and possibly look to get his deposit back (car was sold from guys house). Question is, does he have any comeback and would getting his deposit back be feasible, could there be any reason for sending service records to the DVLA?
Edited to say, without MOT cert or service history there's no way of verifying mileage.
Move on a couple of weeks and guy sends him a message saying V5 is now back, but DVLA still have all the other paperwork i.e. Service history, receipts for bought parts and MOT cert's. He has asked when my SIL would like to collect car, so I have told him to query why he sent service history to DVLA and possibly look to get his deposit back (car was sold from guys house). Question is, does he have any comeback and would getting his deposit back be feasible, could there be any reason for sending service records to the DVLA?
Edited to say, without MOT cert or service history there's no way of verifying mileage.
Basically told him as much. Biggest thing he has going for him is he's a 6'2 twenty stone plus rugby player
guy has also just started his own little business and advertising on Facebook site.
Car is still good value even without service history, it's a 2007 Clio with 40k miles for £900.
guy has also just started his own little business and advertising on Facebook site.Car is still good value even without service history, it's a 2007 Clio with 40k miles for £900.
Al U said:
If you said to me you were going to get trading standards involved if I had your £100 deposit that I wouldn't give back because you pulled out of a private sale I would laugh in your face. It's a private car sale, why would they give a f
k?
Regarding the court thing, does the OP have any proof the deposit was taken and how much was left to pay? In any case people that would go to court over £100 simply do not value their time.
The moral of the story is don't put a deposit on a car unless you are certain you want it given the circumstances. Admittedly none of the cars I have bought have been particularly expensive, but much more considerable sums than are being discussed here. I have never left a deposit. I think that when I say I will come back later or on a certain day to get the car the seller has realised I'm serious and said no problem I'll see you then. All my own petsonal experience of course.
He has a receipt for the deposit and was told that the V5 had been sent off due to the seller recently moving house. He mistakenly understood on the day, that the rest of paperwork was still at old house. Not sure about your last two sentences. Why would a seller give two hoots if he thought you were serious or not. No deposit means car sold to the next person who comes along, you have obviously been lucky with your used car buying in the past if that's the case.k?Regarding the court thing, does the OP have any proof the deposit was taken and how much was left to pay? In any case people that would go to court over £100 simply do not value their time.
The moral of the story is don't put a deposit on a car unless you are certain you want it given the circumstances. Admittedly none of the cars I have bought have been particularly expensive, but much more considerable sums than are being discussed here. I have never left a deposit. I think that when I say I will come back later or on a certain day to get the car the seller has realised I'm serious and said no problem I'll see you then. All my own petsonal experience of course.
Edited by Al U on Friday 24th July 19:47
Seller provided V5 reference number so S in L checked with the DVLA and it seems as though mileage is correct according to the DVLA MOT history. He has also told me that he did a vehicle text check (obviously all back to front and a bit late now) on car and it turns out it's a multiple cat C, not sure what the multiple means? So he's now worried about that 
, I've told him to forget the deposit and walk if he's not happy as present owner may not have known it was a cat C. After all this seller still hasn't found the full service history he advertised...
, I've told him to forget the deposit and walk if he's not happy as present owner may not have known it was a cat C. After all this seller still hasn't found the full service history he advertised...Son in Law sent a message to seller on exactly what's been said so far i.e. No service history (apparently has a large folder but DVLA have kept it) car written off at least twice when advertised as immaculate etc. Has mentioned miss selling and return of deposit. Turns out the seller is a mechanic and replied, saying he knew nothing of the cat C, so SIL asked for the information from section 3 of the V5 and seller is now ignoring all correspondence. SIL has now resigned himself to the loss of his £100 but pretty pissed off about the whole affair (even though he is partly to blame).
Question now is seller has recently started his own business (valeting), advertising on the same site he used to try and sell the Clio, would it be wrong or illegal for SIL to vent some his anger via comments on sellers new advertised site?
Question now is seller has recently started his own business (valeting), advertising on the same site he used to try and sell the Clio, would it be wrong or illegal for SIL to vent some his anger via comments on sellers new advertised site?
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