Private car sale during Covid?
Discussion
I've sold 3 and bought 1 since the start of all this covid stuff.
No difference to the dozens of previous transactions I've done over the years, other than a more limited train service for buyers getting to me.
2 of the purchasers paid me (and I bought) in cash, the other sale was a bank transfer.
Only in one case did covid even come up in any of the conversations I had with buyer / seller and that was when the seller asked me to meet him over the road from his house as he had a curtain-twitcher next door.
No difference to the dozens of previous transactions I've done over the years, other than a more limited train service for buyers getting to me.
2 of the purchasers paid me (and I bought) in cash, the other sale was a bank transfer.
Only in one case did covid even come up in any of the conversations I had with buyer / seller and that was when the seller asked me to meet him over the road from his house as he had a curtain-twitcher next door.
Bought 2 and sold one privately and a 4 with a dealer for sale, who came to collect. No issues at all. As long as both parties are sensible, why would it even be an issue? You are not forcing the other party to take part in the contract. It is not illegal, whatever may may think. However if you are uncomfortable with either the legislation, the advice, the concept or the minimal (in my view, others are available) risk then don’t and wait until this (madness) has passed.
However for most of us, life in some form must continue. Both for buyers needing a vehicle, the State does not determine what we should drive and how far we should go to get it. And sellers need the money for all sorts of reasons that we can imagine. I would suggest that life cannot just stop in all its forms. We all though a year ago this was a winter blip and by the summer life would be back to normal. Here we are a year later still having a discussion of who can do what.
Be sensible, be pragmatic and if selling or buying makes you uncomfortable then wait. But that maybe for an unknown period.
However for most of us, life in some form must continue. Both for buyers needing a vehicle, the State does not determine what we should drive and how far we should go to get it. And sellers need the money for all sorts of reasons that we can imagine. I would suggest that life cannot just stop in all its forms. We all though a year ago this was a winter blip and by the summer life would be back to normal. Here we are a year later still having a discussion of who can do what.
Be sensible, be pragmatic and if selling or buying makes you uncomfortable then wait. But that maybe for an unknown period.
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