Would This Ad Ring Alarm Bells?

[Condi]

Buy from any 2nd hand dealer and there will be a sticker in the car, or something in the contract with words to the effect that the mileage has not been verified and must be assumed to be incorrect. Pretty standard stuff.

[Toaster Pilot]

Buy, arrange to pick up first thing, take for an MOT during the extended trial that morning......

[ging84]

it is a pointless disclaimer
they can put whatever they want, but the sales of goods act would still apply in the exact same way, for example if they had a car showing 30k miles on the clock, but it was obvious from the MOT and service history that it had done 150k+ there is simply no way they could get away with listing it as 30k just because they put a disclaimer

[AdeTuono]

ging84 said:

it is a pointless disclaimer
they can put whatever they want, but the sales of goods act would still apply in the exact same way, for example if they had a car showing 30k miles on the clock, but it was obvious from the MOT and service history that it had done 150k+ there is simply no way they could get away with listing it as 30k just because they put a disclaimer

Are you saying that, because they state plainly that they refuse to confirm the mileage, and in fact state that the mileage should be assumed incorrect, they can be prosecuted for selling a car with the incorrect mileage?

[RedBull]

Seems fairly straight forward to me: cheap cars sold as seen. You get all day to test and inspect it to satisfy yourself that you want it, which is a lot more than you'd get from just about any cheap car sellers I've ever encountered.
Buyers nowadays, especially on ebay, seem to want the world for pennies. How many threads have we had on here asking what to do about a buyer trying it on after purchasing. This just looks like the seller is making it clear that you get plenty of time to decide, and is even happy for a winning bidder to back out after inspection, whereas most take the stance that if you win the auction you buy. Wouldn't put me off at all.

[chibbard]

The add sounds fair. £250 for a car that has 2 to 7 weeks mot and to tax that will cost £400 (at a guess) is about right.

[Maracus]

chibbard said:

The add sounds fair. £250 for a car that has 2 to 7 weeks mot and to tax that will cost £400 (at a guess) is about right.

£400+ VED is only for cars registered after 23 March 2006.

[Devil2575]

It seems fair enough to me. Old, leggy and very cheap cars where the buyer shouldn't really expect any comeback. I'm not sure how much comeback a buyer would have with the SOGA anyway, at least on a car that cheap.

[Shilts147]

It would bother me if I was spending more money! On that Lexus though you can't really loose can you??? It's an auction at the end of the day and if his description is like that he isn't going to achieve top market value for it anyway.

[motco]

The square rear plate suggests it is a grey import in Japanese spec. Don't know what that implies though.