Was I immature?
Discussion
So decided to help my father out and advertised his XF estate on Pistonheads, asking £37k. Here’s the enquiry I received within a day, and here’s the following email chain. Thoughts please. (Car was a 2021 model, facelift, quite rare). And yes I know really I should have ignored it all.
Lead message:
" Hello, I'm interested in this car. Is it still available? If so Id offer you a realistic price of £25K?
Clive
Me:
Take your realistic price and go buy the other new shape XF that’s for sale…..oh wait it’s £47k!!
Time waster
Clive:
They’re living in Cuckoo land too!!
Me:
It’s nice there this time of year
Clive (two days later)
How strangely odd that yours is still up for sale. It will be for a very long time too at the ridiculous price you’re wanting. Wake up man and get real!!
Me (wound up by now but slightly enjoying it):
You’re a very strange man. It’s been up for sale for 5 days, hardly a long time
I’m selling it on behalf of my father who has already been offered £29600 part exchange against his new Aston. We don’t care if it takes a while to sell, got more important s
t to worry about
Go waste somebody else’s time. We don’t want or need your money even if you gave the asking price.
Clive:
Seems you’re well known for being a time waster…
Clive:
So why the hell are you asking as much as you are then? I’ve got one now anyway
And again
Sure I am. That’s why I was able to buy one for a sensible price from a reputable dealer and avoid being ripped off by a novice no idea private buyer portraying to think he knows what he’s talking about but you clearly haven’t got a Scooby Doo!!
Me:
Sold the car today for £35k
Stick that in your pipe you time wasting pillock
Lead message:
" Hello, I'm interested in this car. Is it still available? If so Id offer you a realistic price of £25K?
Clive
Me:
Take your realistic price and go buy the other new shape XF that’s for sale…..oh wait it’s £47k!!
Time waster
Clive:
They’re living in Cuckoo land too!!
Me:
It’s nice there this time of year
Clive (two days later)
How strangely odd that yours is still up for sale. It will be for a very long time too at the ridiculous price you’re wanting. Wake up man and get real!!
Me (wound up by now but slightly enjoying it):
You’re a very strange man. It’s been up for sale for 5 days, hardly a long time
I’m selling it on behalf of my father who has already been offered £29600 part exchange against his new Aston. We don’t care if it takes a while to sell, got more important s
t to worry about Go waste somebody else’s time. We don’t want or need your money even if you gave the asking price.
Clive:
Seems you’re well known for being a time waster…
Clive:
So why the hell are you asking as much as you are then? I’ve got one now anyway
And again
Sure I am. That’s why I was able to buy one for a sensible price from a reputable dealer and avoid being ripped off by a novice no idea private buyer portraying to think he knows what he’s talking about but you clearly haven’t got a Scooby Doo!!
Me:
Sold the car today for £35k
Stick that in your pipe you time wasting pillock
When I sold my W211 I had someone message me within a few hours with an offer for £850, when I replied saying no thanks I'll keep it for that, he sent me a massive diatribe saying how deluded I was, how he'd bought 7 in the last year for the same price, etc.
Ended up selling it the following week for £2200.
Ended up selling it the following week for £2200.
Recently, someone offered me 1/3rd the asking price for something i had up for sale. They got this as a reply,
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I recently advertised an X3 35D for £21,500 online.
Got offers as low as £14,000 with some comments along the lines of WBAC will do the same etc.
Ended up selling to a franchise dealer for £19,000 which I was happy with.
Lots of dreamers, timewasters, chancers and complete morons out there.
Got offers as low as £14,000 with some comments along the lines of WBAC will do the same etc.
Ended up selling to a franchise dealer for £19,000 which I was happy with.
Lots of dreamers, timewasters, chancers and complete morons out there.
I was selling an old Alfa 156 for £2k, plenty in the classifieds asking for more.
A woman contacted me to say she'd looked up my model on a secondhand valuing website that said it was worth £350 and would I accept that as it would never sell for what I wanted.
I pointed out that as it was an enthusiasts car, in very good almost new condition, the so called book price meant nothing.
I had not long before sold my old 3 series, book price £400, for over £2k.
Funny how strangers like to pick arguments, safety of a keyboard I guess.
Anyway I sold the Alfa a day later for £1800.
A woman contacted me to say she'd looked up my model on a secondhand valuing website that said it was worth £350 and would I accept that as it would never sell for what I wanted.
I pointed out that as it was an enthusiasts car, in very good almost new condition, the so called book price meant nothing.
I had not long before sold my old 3 series, book price £400, for over £2k.
Funny how strangers like to pick arguments, safety of a keyboard I guess.
Anyway I sold the Alfa a day later for £1800.
Mikebentley said:
Not quite the same , I’ve got my Vitesse on EBay. Start price £9500 but looking for quite a bit more.
Recieved a message: “ I like your car will give you £6.5 k Bye”
I replied “Not a chance. Bye”
Just got another question “would you consider a PX for a motorbike “Recieved a message: “ I like your car will give you £6.5 k Bye”
I replied “Not a chance. Bye”
Nowhere did I say I wanted a motorbike. I suppose it’s on the list of a million other things I didn’t say I didn’t want.
Not immature, more just wasting your own time replying to these chancers..
When selling my Porsche, I had one or two lengthy conversations with people telling me it was worth much less.
However unlike your rather hostile replies I preferred to keep things polite and actually try to establish what ‘lower priced’ comparable cars they were seeing which I was missing.
Similar answers every time, they sent me links for either high mileage, ropey examples or black colour Porsches (there’s an abundance of black ones whereas mine was a sought after rarer colour)
I like to feel I came on top of those chats without the need of abuse but more showing them why mine was priced as it was.. sold for the asking price in the end so I wasn’t far wrong!
When selling my Porsche, I had one or two lengthy conversations with people telling me it was worth much less.
However unlike your rather hostile replies I preferred to keep things polite and actually try to establish what ‘lower priced’ comparable cars they were seeing which I was missing.
Similar answers every time, they sent me links for either high mileage, ropey examples or black colour Porsches (there’s an abundance of black ones whereas mine was a sought after rarer colour)
I like to feel I came on top of those chats without the need of abuse but more showing them why mine was priced as it was.. sold for the asking price in the end so I wasn’t far wrong!
selling a cycle recently of FB £495
apart from two scammers nowt for 2 weeks.
Then
"380"
nothing else whatsoever.
So I emailed back what?
"380 pounds" was the reply.
I emailed back askin' the lad to try to string together a coherent sentence.
To be fair he did a bit after that. But wanted a bike for "lightweight touring" whatever that is.
Thankfully I sold it a few days later after two more sensible enquiries.
But out of the blue: "380" WTF!
OP: No you were not immature. These people shouldn't be allowed to breed but sadly do hence the state of the country and world.
apart from two scammers nowt for 2 weeks.
Then
"380"
nothing else whatsoever.
So I emailed back what?
"380 pounds" was the reply.
I emailed back askin' the lad to try to string together a coherent sentence.
To be fair he did a bit after that. But wanted a bike for "lightweight touring" whatever that is.
Thankfully I sold it a few days later after two more sensible enquiries.
But out of the blue: "380" WTF!
OP: No you were not immature. These people shouldn't be allowed to breed but sadly do hence the state of the country and world.
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