Titting arse time waster........Bloody ebay

[srad34]

So, sold our old car to a chap this weekend from a Ebay classified advert,

 

Mister turns up with his wife after a couple of phone calls, gives it the once over, test drive, kicks tyres and the like, looks at the stamped service book, MOT's etc all good.

He's not sure on price (typical) and I rejected his stupid offer so I tell him to go and grab a coffee, have a think about my price and get back to me if interested...

 

'I don't need to think' he says. We agree on the price and he leaves a small (£40) deposit and arrange to pick up Sat as I am changing the oil.

 

Great stuff, yesterday he calls for the V5 reference number to do a VOSA MOT check, no probs...

 

Get a call this morning, he says 'the VOSA history only goes back to 2010 and he wants to know why?'

I ask if he has contacted them to ask, he's not and thinks its down to me to find out.

 

He also mentions that he is concerned that the Dealer stamped 90k service history does not have the actual invoices etc and then suggested that some people buy stamps, but not saying that this was the case of course.

Then still banging on about why the VOSA history was missing, where has the car been since 2001....?? (Bearing in mind I have only owned for the last 2 years)

 

I was starting to get annoyed now, I asked him what do you want me to do as I am not VOSA and don't have a clue why its not there?  

So to end the conversation he says he'l leave it based on that.....What a tosser, I cancelled 2 viewings on Sunday too, pissed off? Oh yes.....

 

Well, he can whistle for his £40 deposit back that's for sure...

Am I being unreasonable?? I told him to have a think before he left the deposit, no stress and I was happy to wait (as I knew I had other viewings lines up). 

 

On the plus side as he's pulled out, I can only imagine the grief he could bring if something did go wrong at any point during his hypothetical ownership....ffs

 

Rant over....carry on chaps 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

you've got £40 out of him, no harm done. Have a takeaway and a few beers on him, you'll soon feel better about it.

[pandamonium]

WHS. Sounds like you missed a world of pain there

[Cavcraft]

You definitely told him it was a non-refundable deposit.

[srad34]

I'd like to see him drive 50 miles back to get it being a tight arsed Yorkshireman*

 

 

 

 

 

*I can say this as I am also a tight arsed Yorkshireman!

[inconsistant]

I'd want to know where that £40 had been before he got it.

[MrDuke]

Surely all deposits are non-refundable? Otherwise what's the point of them at all? I admit that concept might be beyond the grasp of an average eBayer, mind...

[bigstraight6]

The joy of selling used cars! This chap sounds a right clown, as already very wisely mentioned use the 'generous' deposit to have a good curry and a few ales and forget the idiot, hopefully you won't get this sort of punter next time!

[Guest Lord Sward]

VOSA only started taking any notice of mileage after 2010.....

[Station]

I've had this, but didn't get 40 quid out of it. Has he asked for it back?

Just forget about it and put it down to ebay craziness - I had a fellow claim my Fuego had a rear end shunt because the bumper bolt was loose. It is annoying when they accuse you of things you haven't done, or are trying to hide.

[Pillock]

Lucky escape. Sounds like the kind of mentalist who would bring it back to you in a years time when the glovebox hinge starts squeaking and he notices a parking ding you didn't mention.

 

Send him a photo of you drinking £40 worth of beer.

[Jim Bell]

Jeebers, what were you selling?

 

A 1856 Aston Martin Volante DB1?

 

For one meeelion dollars?

[lisbon_road]

Hope you get a simple sale next time.

 

I sold a Peugeot 306 for a £450, had one man ring up and ask for all the numbers so he could check the milage.  I'd stated it as 139K with no history or service history whatsoever.  Does it really matter?

[srad34]

Hope you get a simple sale next time.

 

I sold a Peugeot 306 for a £450, had one man ring up and ask for all the numbers so he could check the milage.  I'd stated it as 139K with no history or service history whatsoever.  Does it really matter?

Personally no, I would look at the condition to see how its been looked after, rather that mystical stamps in a book from years ago. He probably thought an MOT was a service - no VOSA, no service...muppet.

 

Its a '97 Porsche Boxster , posh chod selling to pay for fuel in my XKR Speed-chod lol

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141195857153?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

[stuboy]

when i sold my mates van i told the buyer to leave a deposit that was over 50 quid and prepared to leave if he changed his mind

[mercrocker]

I have always  kept any deposit I get from this  type of time wasting twat.    The problem is most  buyers do not know what the feck they are doing and try and "trap" sellers with psycho-babble and ludicrous demands for information.   Really they should spend their Saturdays wearing down the local sheepskins but instead they watch some arse clot on the telly and think they can drive themselves a bargain.    I hope I can cover my storage costs for the rest of my life  because I feel less and less like dealing with these munts with every passing year.   Think I will just pass it all to the grandson!

[Negative Creep]

Hope you get a simple sale next time.

 

I sold a Peugeot 306 for a £450, had one man ring up and ask for all the numbers so he could check the milage.  I'd stated it as 139K with no history or service history whatsoever.  Does it really matter?

 

 

Someone once pulled out of buying my £400 1986 Bluebird because it didn't have full service history

[Split_Pin]

Trade in or scrap, that's my policy now and for all time coming.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Its a '97 Porsche Boxster

 

This is the problem, I fear... Your prospective buyer appears to conform to the current first-generation Boxster owner stereotype : the kind of person who thinks that a £4K car is enough to convince others that they are rich/successful/important.

 

Such people are, of course, not actually rich/successful/important, and spending £4K on a car makes them very anxious, which leads to unreasonable expectations.

 

I don't think he is legally entitled to a refund of the deposit, and he most certainly isn't morally entitled to it either !

[saucedoctor]

The guy who bought my Boxster was a full on bell-end. I made damned sure he was sure how this was gonna work. I think the fact that my ex is a lawyer probably put him off complaining, though, as I've never heard from him.

[Micrashed]

[dugong]

Hope you get a simple sale next time.

 

I sold a Peugeot 306 for a £450, had one man ring up and ask for all the numbers so he could check the milage.  I'd stated it as 139K with no history or service history whatsoever.  Does it really matter?

 

No, it doesn't matter. Not on a car at that price and age. I'd be more concerned about how it drove and stop, and whether the head gasket OK rather than a row of pissing stamps in a service book. 

 

People at that price point are only going to run it into the ground anyway - they're just annoyed they can't afford the finance payments on a TDi Golf. 

[MrDuke]

Wait - it was a £4k car, and he left a £40 deposit??? I'd have told him to do one at that point, personally.

[sheffcortinacentre]

just had to relist my mustang as winner emailed with 5 hrs left that he could no longer buy it & I needed to retract his bids as his wife had been made redundant the day before , I got the message with 50 min left.!!!!!!!!

[trigger]

One bloke who came to look at my old Opel Kadett moaned as the service book wasn't stamped between 1984 and 1990 and used that as an excuse to "think about it", it was a 40 year old car FFS!

[chaseracer]

...he could no longer buy it & I needed to retract his bids as his wife had found out he was buying without prior permission...

 

EFA...

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

no Shirley not??

[oman5]

I think the banger market has shrunk dramatically over the years, to the point where many buyers are clueless and trying to apply the same buying criteria to a 500 quid snotter as a 3 year old mondeo as that's all they know.

I gave up selling cars on ebay. rare and off the wall stuff like my sd1, a transit ambulance and my chevy caprice all sold to enthusiasts with no fuss whatsoever-they knew what they were looking at. whenever it was anything mundane/ordinary I never had any luck, it was always people bidding up to find the reserve and then cancelling their bids, people winning and not making contact, and on one occasion abuse because i wouldn't accept his derisory offer for an already cheap car. 

Vehicle parts on the other hand still seem to sell well. I advertised a p6 v8 engine for a mate, it went for 600 quid, the buyer turned up at my mates with the dosh and said "its not really what i wanted but I'll take it. I really wanted a 3.9"

"what, like this one?" says my mate pointing at a crusty discovery. so he had the 3.9 instead. then my mate sold the p6 lump via second chance offer to the next highest bidder. result!

[Micrashed]

Im about to list a 12 year old caravan on eBay

 

Wish me luck.

[Cavcraft]

Once again the problem lies with people watching 'Dickinson's Real Deal' and that type of thing: they automatically think everything needs to be 50% cheaper and, absolutely perfect and have reams of history with an old car. These people are wankers and should be avoided at all costs.