Buying a car from a charity.

[Integroo]

Got my eye on a nice looking shed budget car on eBay that is being sold by a well known high street charity. It is low mileage, FSH, and last owner owned it for some time - I wonder whether he left it in his will or something? Anyway, I would likely have to bid sight unseen given when the auction ends.

I was wondering two things:

(i) Do the CRA15 rules apply to charity shop purchases? (I have had a quick look at the Act, and I am pretty sure it does).
(ii) Would it be morally wrong to seek to enforce your statutory consumer rights when buying a car from a charity?

Obviously my thought process is more that the engine lunches itself within 300 miles rather than trying to get a charity shop to fix a snapped spring or something.

Interested in all thoughts.

[TooMany2cvs]

Integroo said:

I was wondering two things:

(i) Do the CRA15 rules apply to charity shop purchases? (I have had a quick look at the Act, and I am pretty sure it does).

Yes.

Integroo said:

(ii) Would it be morally wrong to seek to enforce your statutory consumer rights when buying a car from a charity?

It's "shed budget", so the question's pretty damn academic. But I wouldn't.