Tom Hartley

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JDH1

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Thursday 26th March 2015
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Apologies if this has been covered before. Saw an article about Tom Hartley in the Sunday Times a few weeks ago which featured Tom Hartley Snr but didn't mention Tom Jnr who used to be the poster boy for the company. Just looked at their website and amongst 'our people' Carl Hartley is featured but Tom Jnr isn't mentioned at all. Anyone know the story?

JDH1

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Thursday 26th March 2015
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Could be. Judging by the pictures, it's certainly at the same location. Kind of hard to decide which of the two companies I'd like to deal with least.

JDH1

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Friday 27th March 2015
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No, never would. My relationship with young Mr Hartley ended before it ever started when he agreed to buy a 4,000 mile car from me I'd had from new, and then attempted to knock £4k off the agreed price on arrival because it had had (and I quote) "A piss poor paint job." Needless to say, the car was completely original as confirmed by the other dealer who came to see it the next day. I went on to buy and sell at least half a dozen cars with him.

That may have been a one off aberation (and the business seems to have gone from strength to strength since then) but I never even consider anything they have to sell. It seems I now have two companies to avoid.