Car adverts- Previous keeper Info

[davamer23]

Why would I care that the previous owner was a Doctor? Am I supposed to be impressed? They penny pinch just as much, of not more than anyone else. A service history is worth the same whether a Doctor owned the car or if it were a plumber.
This info is useless to me. Just show me the paperwork.

[richs2891]

Yeah it really means nothing, Could of either been a true piston head and every service done at the correct time by a dealer, or jus had it as a way of getting around and never serviced once, or looked after.
I think the same when I see an advert for "one careful lady owner"

Richard

[CraigyMc]

davamer23 said:

Why would I care that the previous owner was a Doctor? Am I supposed to be impressed? They penny pinch just as much, of not more than anyone else. A service history is worth the same whether a Doctor owned the car or if it were a plumber.
This info is useless to me. Just show me the paperwork.

In my experience of Doctors (a few friends are) - they are more scatterbrained and less inclined to look after stuff like car maintenance than someone who does a manual labour job.

Basically "doctors car" = "abused" to me.

[jeff666]

On the other hand, most earn a good salary and won't flinch at a large bill for work carried out, i look after a local to me Doctors fleet of cars and he never quibbles the final bill.

[davamer23]

If the advert says or shows reciepts for x££££'s then that's all I need to know. "Doctor owner" doesn't always mean this despite your example. I've known Doctors who will quibble over the smallest amounts and ask, where's the cheapest?

[retrorider]

The Boxster i've just sold was previously owned by a doctor.He had very deep pockets and all receipts kept, so a doctor who was organised too.It's why i bought it and why i got a quick sale...

[davamer23]

That's brilliant, but did you put in the advert title, "Previous Doctor Owner" hoping that would get you more interest or did you simply state in the write up comprehensive history and reciepts for all previous work done?

Condition and History sells the car, not the occupation of a previous owner.

Drug dealers have plenty of cash but I wouldn't say "one previous loaded drug dealer owner"

[rallycross]

Little details like this can make a difference when searching for a car amongst the hundreds available online.

Eg a one owner (doctor) car has far better provenance than an average car as its likely to be main dealer maintained with the owner able to service on time and likely to buy premium brand tyres etc.

These are all good things when buying used but if you can't see that just go ahead and buy the cheapest one you can find -and good luck.

[calibrax]

davamer23 said:

Condition and History sells the car, not the occupation of a previous owner.

To you, yes. But there are plenty of gullible people out there who will be subconsciously impressed by the fact that a doctor owned it. Because people trust doctors, and if they know a doctor bought the car originally, then it must be a good one, as they made the decision to buy it.

[retrorider]

davamer23 said:

That's brilliant, but did you put in the advert title, "Previous Doctor Owner" hoping that would get you more interest or did you simply state in the write up comprehensive history and reciepts for all previous work done?

Condition and History sells the car, not the occupation of a previous owner.

Drug dealers have plenty of cash but I wouldn't say "one previous loaded drug
dealer owner"

Yes i did as a marketing tool to stand above other cars,and also because it was in black and white on the logbook and all the receipts.It worked and was sold
very quickly...

[Spare tyre]

A few years ago at le mans a few guys near us had their chairs pinched, I offered a few spare chairs and got chatting to a guy there who was a dr.

Fast forward a few months and a mate calls me up, could I run him up to Newbury to pick up a Volvo estate he's bought privately, he liked the fact that it was owned by a dr.

Turns out that it was the le mans guy.

That is the end of my dr car owning story

Cheers

[vikingaero]

A car owned by a respectable Doctor with deep pockets to service and maintain it or a car owned by a local Chav who sold it because he couldn't afford to fix it and did burnouts every time he drove like he stole it?

[davamer23]

Point missed-again.

[CraigyMc]

vikingaero said:

A car owned by a respectable Doctor with deep pockets to service and maintain it or a car owned by a local Chav who sold it because he couldn't afford to fix it and did burnouts every time he drove like he stole it?

A couple of points:

• Doctors often have more debt than you would think - medical school isn't cheap.
• Doctors and chavs can both drive like tools, or not.

[Tickle]

CraigyMc said:

A couple of points:

• Doctors often have more debt than you would think - medical school isn't cheap.
• Doctors and chavs can both drive like tools, or not.

• Chavs can also have deep pockets

[jamoor]

CraigyMc said:

A couple of points:

• Doctors often have more debt than you would think - medical school isn't cheap.
• Doctors and chavs can both drive like tools, or not.

I don't know of any doctors here in the UK that aren't laughing all the way to the bank.