What is wrong with some people?!
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Looking to buy a relatively rare but largely uninteresting (to PH) car which is made all the more difficult to acquire because I've got a couple of fairly specific asks around specification - something that I'm willing to pay a premium for within reason as I accept I'm after somewhat of a unicorn.
Regardless of the above, I find a car that fits the bill precisely, bar one thing that's on my "nice to have" list - so we start discussions. The guy is looking to sell, we agree a ballpark that he's happy with, he sends me a load of guff about the car and despite a couple of issues that may affect the value detrimentally I go to have a look. The car's not well presented but is very much just the subject of the filth on the roads rather than a proper pig and the paint's just a bit dull and lifeless for what started out very much to the top end of what these - but it's all rectifiable, so we carry on.
I make an offer. It's a cheeky one, but a not unrealistic one based on a few of the detracting factors. It's rebutted - the seller knows he's got the high ground here as there are few enough of these as there are, so we end up passing the top end of what we'd discussed values to be and are comfortably into a new high bar that had not been discussed previously. I suck it up, knowing i'm staring down the opportunity to buy a unicorn, and that's for me to attach value to until such time as I decide enough is enough. I come to the value he'd suggested; but it's not good enough. He's changed his mind. I meet the new ask - he changes his mind again. Alarm bells going mad here, I meet the ask one last time and make it clear I'm not doing this game any more as it's becoming very tedious. We "virtually" shake hands and agree to allow him time to sort out the admin pieces around removing private plates etc and getting it to the condition it should have been presented in day one - his concession that it wasn't shown in the best light.
Days go by, and we suddenly find out there's outstanding finance marker still on the vehicle despite being assured there was none. There's a "mistake" at the finance company, and it's going to take some time to investigate and resolve. Knowing who it is financed with, I accept this explanation and those in trade will probably be able to guess which of these muppets it is.
Out of the blue, I get a message saying he's changed his mind and going to keep it. Weeks have passed from the start of this to where we are now, all at his leisure and based on him advertising his car for sale. I'm not up for the legal battle of trying to play silly buggers over it, cos there's very little point especially with the outstanding concern over whether it is legally his to sell - but seriously, all this arseache with a couple of other close enough examples coming and going to be dropped like that.
Some people need to give their head a wobble. Me included to an extent for sticking with this pillock.
No real point to all this, but as a cautionary tale - if it drags on, they aren't that bothered in selling. And avoid buying from people in their 20s.
Regardless of the above, I find a car that fits the bill precisely, bar one thing that's on my "nice to have" list - so we start discussions. The guy is looking to sell, we agree a ballpark that he's happy with, he sends me a load of guff about the car and despite a couple of issues that may affect the value detrimentally I go to have a look. The car's not well presented but is very much just the subject of the filth on the roads rather than a proper pig and the paint's just a bit dull and lifeless for what started out very much to the top end of what these - but it's all rectifiable, so we carry on.
I make an offer. It's a cheeky one, but a not unrealistic one based on a few of the detracting factors. It's rebutted - the seller knows he's got the high ground here as there are few enough of these as there are, so we end up passing the top end of what we'd discussed values to be and are comfortably into a new high bar that had not been discussed previously. I suck it up, knowing i'm staring down the opportunity to buy a unicorn, and that's for me to attach value to until such time as I decide enough is enough. I come to the value he'd suggested; but it's not good enough. He's changed his mind. I meet the new ask - he changes his mind again. Alarm bells going mad here, I meet the ask one last time and make it clear I'm not doing this game any more as it's becoming very tedious. We "virtually" shake hands and agree to allow him time to sort out the admin pieces around removing private plates etc and getting it to the condition it should have been presented in day one - his concession that it wasn't shown in the best light.
Days go by, and we suddenly find out there's outstanding finance marker still on the vehicle despite being assured there was none. There's a "mistake" at the finance company, and it's going to take some time to investigate and resolve. Knowing who it is financed with, I accept this explanation and those in trade will probably be able to guess which of these muppets it is.
Out of the blue, I get a message saying he's changed his mind and going to keep it. Weeks have passed from the start of this to where we are now, all at his leisure and based on him advertising his car for sale. I'm not up for the legal battle of trying to play silly buggers over it, cos there's very little point especially with the outstanding concern over whether it is legally his to sell - but seriously, all this arseache with a couple of other close enough examples coming and going to be dropped like that.
Some people need to give their head a wobble. Me included to an extent for sticking with this pillock.
No real point to all this, but as a cautionary tale - if it drags on, they aren't that bothered in selling. And avoid buying from people in their 20s.
I had someone recently try to pull the wool over my eyes when their car was on finance. He clearly said it wasn't on finance. A HPI check then flagged it was on finance.
The excuses then turned to it was just a tiny amount of hire purchase that he would clear. However, the HPI check said the finance agreement was a PCP. The tiny amount of hire purchase left to clear was a significant amount of PCP with the final payment on top of outstanding monthly payments.
The guy was still expecting me to pay him directly and trust him to pay off the finance. He refused for me to pay the finance company directly.
There's a lot of bad sellers and buyers out there.
The excuses then turned to it was just a tiny amount of hire purchase that he would clear. However, the HPI check said the finance agreement was a PCP. The tiny amount of hire purchase left to clear was a significant amount of PCP with the final payment on top of outstanding monthly payments.
The guy was still expecting me to pay him directly and trust him to pay off the finance. He refused for me to pay the finance company directly.
There's a lot of bad sellers and buyers out there.
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