Buying off Gypsies.

[CHRIS1980]

Is it wise? Has anyone done it? Probably stupid questions but I thought I would ask. After possibly being scared for life from getting a P38 Range Rover I started to browse on ebay. I spotted a cheap Land Rover 90 van that needs a bit of love. But in the back ground can only what can be described as a traveller site. It's a local one to me. It's cheap enough and very tempting,but in my head I can hear georgous George telling me 'buying from a bunch of fucking pikeys? This won't end well' . Am I right to be put off.

[Negative Creep]

Do you like dags?

[CHRIS1980]

Do you like dags?

Dags?, oh yeah I like dogs.

[Cavcraft]

If you can prove beyond doubt it's not been stolen (like you would with any car, especially a Landrover) then why not? You can always chip the price down too, they like a bit of bartering as a rule.

 

If you have any scrap batteries I find they pay more than the local metal yards as a rule, too.

[mercrocker]

I have done a couple of deals with travellers over the years. No problems, sold one a Morris, another a C50 Honda and bought a Merc from another. Straightforward and no messing on each occasion....

[Bobthebeard]

 

You show me how to control a wild gypsy and I'll show you how to control an unhinged, pig-feeding gangster.

[CHRIS1980]

If you can prove beyond doubt it's not been stolen (like you would with any car, especially a Landrover) then why not? You can always chip the price down too, they like a bit of bartering as a rule.

 

If you have any scrap batteries I find they pay more than the local metal yards as a rule, too.

A DVLA check reveals the the tax expired a couple of years after the MOT.....I'm not sure how that happened.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I have done a couple of deals with travellers over the years. 

 

What year? Any rot in the wood?

[Alan_Green]

Bought a van off travellers site a few years back for £3K cash. Good deal. Sold it later for a profit. Seller was keen to sell. Only fly in the ointment was that I was pulled over a week later on the M25 in an impressive 6 marked and unmarked police car rolling road block. Was told later it had a marker for firearms! Maybe why he was keen to sell.  Did ask if he was going to throw a dog into the deal (a la Snatch) but he didn't know what I was talking about.

[Cavcraft]

A DVLA check reveals the the tax expired a couple of years after the MOT.....I'm not sure how that happened.

 

 

Might have had it on agricultural use, is it a diesel? I'd have a look at the VIN plate and the V5 very carefully, purely because these seem to be 'the' stolen car of the moment. 

[Bobthebeard]

A DVLA check reveals the the tax expired a couple of years after the MOT.....I'm not sure how that happened.

Am sure the DVLA are as mystified as you are..... Gypsy laws etc...

[CHRIS1980]

Yeah 2.5 diesel. Rough looking but seems to be quite honest,the car that is. It's on ebay with the plates on display. I messages them as to the condition of the chassis and bulkhead but all I got as a reply was that I was welcome to have a look.

[smellmycheese]

Didnt someone post one on here lately that had been mis sold on ebay with a worn engine? The pic was the same.

[Bobthebeard]

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[UltraWomble]

Bought a caravan off one, sold a caravan to another - both straightforward transactions if you dont mind dealing in cash and haggling.

[CHRIS1980]

In my head it looks like they've bought it off some farmer for pennies and are making a quick buck. I don't mind that but it scares me that it's nicked or I turn up with a pocket full of cash and I wake up penny less with a broken jaw and brain damage......and my trousers on back to front.

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

About 5 years ago I sold a 300 tdi 90 to a Gypsy for £2200, although he was recommended as ok by someone I knew well. It was a straight forward cash sale and I never saw him again. I did however examine the old £20 pound notes very carefully.

 

Last December I bought a 51 plate Fiesta diesel van from another Gypsy I know for £325 cash, no problems to date and the V5 came through ok.

 

I suppose it depends on the Gypsy.

 

[CHRIS1980]

It's a permanent site at Market Harborough and they are selling other stuff as well but the feedback is low on the 12 items they have sold 72%.

[Bobthebeard]

All joking aside, when I was 15 I used to work on a milk round. Did the same round until I was 17. The owner was a gypsy guy who had inherited a farm. Fair play to him, he worked hard at it. The gypsy blood was still in him though and he owned two big shire horses and a horse drawn caravan. He took me to Appleby fair twice. I remember being astonished finding out how nice the romany folk were. As a 15 year old I was terrified at the prospect of meeting real gypos. They were wonderful. Not all gypsies are the same!

[michael1703]

Rough looking but seems to be quite honest,the car that is.

 

I've bought a few cars off gypsies and had no problem,I'd rather deal with them than chavs and dole scroungers

 

I pull up on gipsy site leaving my car unlocked and the windows open and the key in the ignition to show I'm at ease with them too

[sierraman]

As people say it might go ok or it might go disasterously. I've met only one traveller and he was OK. To be honest you are as likely to be ripped off buying from some mug on Bumtree.

[scruff]

It looks OK on ebay nothing shouting RING RING

[Junkman]

I have dealt with travellers in the past and found them honest and reliable.

A lot more honest and reliable in fact, than many an orderly mortgage payer I met, I say.

[sierraman]

I'll say now though if there's something wrong with it and you pipe up requesting refund or it fixing you might get a 'fuck off' if you are lucky or a bloody nose if you aren't as they tend to be a bit handy with the fists or at least have recourse to several people that are.

[mercrocker]

Deal is deal with travelling folk. No warranty and if you take it back that is just an insult. Expect the above...

[Jerzy Woking]

30 off years ago my job title was "Gypsy Liaison officer" which was a bit of a misnomer as I had to deal with everyone who was a caravan dweller. I really liked dealing with the vast majority of Romany and Irish gypsies-especially some of the extended fairground families that wintered in London's Docklands before going off and doing the fairs in the UK and Europe. Maybe because I loved the old 1930's lorries they used to tow their trailers with. I'd rather buy a car off of any one of them that some of the mouth breathing knuckle draggers whose cars I went to see but didn't buy.

 

Just as an aside, the worst caravan dwellers I ever had the displeasure of dealing with were the filthy, stinking, lying, thieving "New Age Travellers" that used to descend on West Country towns and villages. Awful, scrounging bastards (in my experience I hasten to add) that had the view that the World owed them a living. All the women stank of rotting fish. And so did the blokes and kids.

[sierraman]

Bust a deal... Face the wheel

[Station]

I'd rather masturbate with a primed bear trap (while on crack) (on a roller coaster) (using a bears arm to hold the trap) (with the bear whose arm it belongs to sitting next to me) than buy a car off a gypsy. If anything goes wrong, you're f*cked. Who are you going to go to when it all goes to shit, PayPal? Not even Trading Standards or the Police can help on the 50/50 chance it'll either be a ringer/stolen/forged notes.

[GrumpyCat]

With feedback like this, I would give it a swerve...

 

 

 

Mis-described, engine worn out, seller threatened physical violence, avoid!!

[D Spares & Tyres]

Do not trust any seller and you should be fine, regardless of ethnicity

 

I bought a car off ebay off some outwardly nice middle class Christian types. Didn`t look at it, just put on trailer and took home

 

Had a good look next day and it was fucked, totally misdescribed