How long does it take to sell a shitter?

[scruff]

Although I suppose compared to a LWB Defender, it would be.

9mpg hooning itAlthough I did have a tuned 3.9 in it - GR8 4 TOWIN and baiting mongaloids in Corsas.

[Futuramic]

I don't understand this either. It's a cheap car so just buy the bloody thing. For the money you probably can't go wrong.For this reason, even on a speculative run, I always stick a ton in my wallet and obviously start counting it on front of the dealer when discussing price. I've had some good discounts this way because as soon as he realises I've the means to pay for it he will be more willing to negotiate.

[Richard]

Has anybody ever tried to sell a newish car? I haven't but I bet you get the same thickos, chancers and dreamers- only with better clothes and teeth.

[Father Ted]

Has anybody ever tried to sell a newish car? I haven't but I bet you get the same thickos, chancers and dreamers- only with better clothes and teeth.

Not for about 4 years when i sold a 5 year old Xantia HDi, full servic history, diesel tunig chip, mint condition - probably a mistake to list it for a couple of hunded under book price as I wanted rid fairly sharpish - god the mongs that turned up wanting (much) bigger discounts because (and I kid you not)

"it has a tuning box"

"Its green"

"it has a towbar so the shock absorbers must be knackered"

"its a bit low, the shockkers are fucked mate" (before switching it on)

"the traffic master has expired"

 

Then finally te bloke who I sold it to wanted to "borrow the tax disc" for a week - last car got traded in at the dealer, sure i lost a few quid but it was worth it not to have to deal with pond life.

[CortinaDave]

I sold my Probe last month to a bloke from Glasgow.. The car had a full history, I'd just MoT'd it and it was spot on.. he got a great deal.Anyway he got pulled a couple of days later by plod who apparently cremated the car, told him it was a deathtrap and made him take it home, and made him re test it before it could be used again.So he badmouthed me all over the forum I sold the car on... i was a shark, not to be trusted etc... then he put the car in for the test, and no surprises it passed straight away. I can only assume he gave the plod lip and they went out of their way to pick fault in the car to teach him a lesson.Last i heard he'd covered it big dragon stickers.In fairness, any deal I've done buying or selling with someone in Glasgow they are almost always nutters.I went to view a calibra there once, made a very respectable offer and agreed the deal. As i didnt have another driver i left a deposit and came back next day to collect the car.She screamed at me on the doorstep, saying she'd been checking and i was ripping her off.. called me a "F**king chancing c**t" threw my deposit in my face and chased me out of her drive.six weeks later long after I'd bought another car she phoned and left a message saying she'd made a mistake and was i still interested?Utterly bonkers.

[Pete-M]

I've just had to relist my Escort van.... Oh joy.

[AnthonyG]

I am quite lucky re selling cars, all the recent ones have gone to relatives or been sold via a friendly local trader - if you know someone with a pitch it's well worth keeping in with them.Sold my 2000 Rover 75 through a local guy I knew and he didn't want any commission, just wanted something 'posh' on the front that might pull in a few customers, who then get sold a £600 Corsa or something.I gave him a good bottle of wine for his trouble - I'm not a total cheapskate :DP.S If I have anything with problems it goes into the auction, it's well worth it for getting rid with no comeback. Mind you, my local auction has a £10 entry fee and charges very low commission.

[Guest]

It's the bland, dull stuff that attracts the twats. Flogging a Mondeo or Mk5 Escort with cracked bumpers ought to be easy, but they are the hardest things in the world to shift.

I was shitscared this would be the case if I stuck my Mondeo in the local rag, in the end I dumped the car at work for a week, a colleague spotted the For Sale note in the back screen and bought it for his other half - perfect.Selling to people you work with does trouble me a little (as it can cause grief when something invariably breaks on the car), although the last time I did this the guy bought my mk3 Fiesta for his daughter's first car, sadly it got nicked a few nights later, never seen again.I've sold one car on Ebay, my old two-pedal mk3 Escort which went to a chap from Loughborough who had only taken his automatic test, as had his Mrs. I thought it was going to be grief when he phoned half an hour after the auction ended and asked whether it had rear belts... (don't think this was standard on any mk3 Escort!) However he was good as gold, turned up with his old man the next day, quick look over then handed me the cash + drove off. Never heard a peep out of him since.So maybe I've been lucky?

[Station]

I sold my Probe last month to a bloke from Glasgow.. The car had a full history, I'd just MoT'd it and it was spot on.. he got a great deal.Anyway he got pulled a couple of days later by plod who apparently cremated the car, told him it was a deathtrap and made him take it home, and made him re test it before it could be used again.So he badmouthed me all over the forum I sold the car on... i was a shark, not to be trusted etc... then he put the car in for the test, and no surprises it passed straight away. I can only assume he gave the plod lip and they went out of their way to pick fault in the car to teach him a lesson.Last i heard he'd covered it big dragon stickers.In fairness, any deal I've done buying or selling with someone in Glasgow they are almost always nutters.I went to view a calibra there once, made a very respectable offer and agreed the deal. As i didnt have another driver i left a deposit and came back next day to collect the car.She screamed at me on the doorstep, saying she'd been checking and i was ripping her off.. called me a "F**king chancing c**t" threw my deposit in my face and chased me out of her drive.six weeks later long after I'd bought another car she phoned and left a message saying she'd made a mistake and was i still interested?Utterly bonkers.

Do you have a link to original forum? Sounds interesting!How can you exactly rip someone off if you are BUYING off them?! Hope you told her where to stick her Calibra.

[pogweasel]

I've just put a Shogun and an RS2000 escort on ebay this afternoon - how long before the dole-fiddlers start asking stupid questions? PRACE BETS NOW!

[garethj]

RS2000 escort

ALRITE MATE, IS DIS DA WON BODIE DROVE? TAKE £100 FOR CASH TOMOROW?

[pogweasel]

No!

 

[garethj]

no deadbeats, muppets, or tracksuited mouthbreathing retards need apply

There's at least 2/3 of your target audience gone right there. It's just the pissed people bidding late at night who'll buy it now

[scruff]

HI M8 IZ IT 4WD?

[155V6]

Those RS 2OOOs are really good.A mate of mine has one,it was a bit rotten when he got it but he had it all repaired properly & it's solid now.Unfortunately,he hit a kerb & bent a few bits underneath so it's off the road until he can get it fixed He's quite pleased that it's so rare,but I like to tell him that my MG is rarer,they only made around 300 of those

[Pete-M]

I had one of those RS2000s back in 96. Mine was an earlier 'bulge bonnet' J plater. Probably one of the best all round cars I've ever owned. Definately a lot more sensible than most, but also brilliant handling if you get the right tyres on 'em.Synchro was getting very weak on it when I sold it though.

[r.welfare]

Has anybody ever tried to sell a newish car? I haven't but I bet you get the same thickos, chancers and dreamers- only with better clothes and teeth.

Sold my wife's 51-plate Fabia 1.4 16v (so a proper VW engine instead of the wheezy Skoda pushrod) last summer, after the baby was born as the boot was just too small. 82k on the clock but a fuller-than-full SH, year's MOT, minty clean, and a decent-spec; ice-cold air, trip computer, ABS, twin airbags etc etc etc. Put it up for £2k which was the Glass's trade-in "excellent" price on the Bay (BIN or best offer, like) and in the Ad Trader, despite being the cheapest by a couple of hundred, good pictures and a detailed writeup I had not a sniff for 10 days. Then put it on Gumtree and had a bloke ring up, very enthusiastic, a no-show then rang me three days later to tell me they'd bought a diesel one instead. Waited another 10 days and had a Bulgarian guy turn up (but wearing a suit and speaking impeccable English), struck a deal at £1800. I think he got a good car for the money, but it still surprised me given how far behind Polo money it was (it's the same car underneath) and even he was impressed I had every single invoice to back up the stamps. I know it's a Skoda but f**k me, a seven year old supermini with all the luxury and safety kit, German build and 50mpg for under 2 grand? Do people just want the moon on a stick these days?I've now decided that I'll run the two 405s until they get scrapped, or offer 'em cheap on the French Car Forum; the Accord ditto, or I'll take it on (and sell off the Pugs) if we need something bigger.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I've had some irish geezer ringing me about the Ital this weekend, first he gets out the old 'whats your bottom line on it, how much will you take' so I batted that one out the way, then 'can ya store it for 3 weeks till I can get it on the boat, either me or my mate wil come and get it after easter' yeah right, just f##k off and come back when you want to buy a car eh? I'm busy, got potatoes to plant and everything.

[Father Ted]

I have a load of stuff to put on the bay of E, including a shed (a proper one, 7x5 painted blue with feather lap timber 99p start , buyer to dismantle and take out of my life forever) and have totally lost the will to live with regards putting stuff on, trouble is there are quite a few "specialised" tools that I cant think of any other selling format - other than perhaps Practically Brassic magazine.

[andrew e]

Where did you find that Pog?

[MrRegieRitmo]

I just bought a Roadline livered Regal supervan

Now that I would like to see!

[MrRegieRitmo]

HI M8 IZ IT 4WD?

The Shogun? Yes I'm quite sure it will be!

[MrRegieRitmo]

I've only sold one car so far which was the MkIII Fiesta Si, bought in Oct 2002 for £1995, sold in Feb 2005 for £875. I tried putting it on eBay at something like £50 start with a reserve of £1200 but it only reached about £400 odd. So I changed my tactic & put it on at £800 start, no reserve. No bids. I can't remember if I had it on Autotrader as well or not. I did have a young guy come over from the Isle of Wight with his dad, he seemed enthusiastic & liked the look of the car etc, his dad on the other hand was a stern hulk who asked all the questions & looked like you wouldn't want to mess him around. So anyway we took a brief drive round the block with said dad in the driving seat before he turns round & exclaims that he can hear the wheel bearings are on the way out & he wouldn't buy it. He then promptly parks up, they get out & jump back in their car quick as a flash & leave me to straighten up the car he unceremoniously dumped away from the kerb. It's a horrible feeling when somebody picks holes in your car & leaves you & your car feeling worthless, especially when they're talking out of their arse. There was nothing wrong with the wheel bearings, at no point had any problem ever been brought up with the wheel bearings. Shortly afterwards another father/son outfit came round to look at the car, this time from locally, sold easily enough to them for an agreed £875. I still saw the car around for the next year or so as I drive past where it lived everyday. Not seen it for a while now though.

[AnthonyG]

A Shogun with a blown HG and a 'fast' Ford from the 1990s with no MoT - Pog you are going to enter a world of pain selling those items I do hope you like 'dags'!HI MATE WOULD YOU SWAP FOR A CARAVAN WITH NO FOOKING WHEELS?

[AnthonyG]

a seven year old supermini

You've hit the nail on the head there - seven years old, effectively worthless these days, regardless of what it is, Skoda or Range Rover - 'Oh its an old car isn't it mate'. You're lucky it was a '51' reg, a lot of people won't touch anything with the 'old' plates on.

[pogweasel]

A Shogun with a blown HG and a 'fast' Ford from the 1990s with no MoT - Pog you are going to enter a world of pain selling those items I do hope you like 'dags'!HI MATE WOULD YOU SWAP FOR A CARAVAN WITH NO FOOKING WHEELS?

Yeah, I know. Though the last RS2000 we punted on there was actually quite painless to sell - not being able to physically drive it away then instantly crash it / drive like a bell-end with no tax/mot/insurance meant the twats stayed away. Very tempted to sort & keep the Shogun for myself, just the terrifying thought of the fuel bill putting me off...

[pompei]

HEY POG M8 WILL IT GET ME BACK 2 HARTLEPOOL?

[Pete-M]

a seven year old supermini

You've hit the nail on the head there - seven years old, effectively worthless these days, regardless of what it is, Skoda or Range Rover - 'Oh its an old car isn't it mate'. You're lucky it was a '51' reg, a lot of people won't touch anything with the 'old' plates on.

Funnily enough, I've noticed with less poverty spec stuff that there are a whole load of people out there who won't go near anything later than a 'Y' reg. 'X' reg Range Rover P38As are fetching more than 51 plate ones just because of the tax implications..Personally, I've managed so far to avoid '51' and later reg stuff for my own use for the same reason. I don't see why I should pay £££££££ a year to tax something that's £185 a year if its a bit older..

[Pete-M]

Grrrrrreat. The van is now on its 3rd ebay listing in a week.Mr BIN just fucked me about, 2nd bloke "I'll have it, I'll have it...." didn't turn up, rang him earlier and he said "Sorry mate, can't pick it up until the weekend... Fucking wankers. It's a bloody decent little van for fuck all money.Decided this time to list it and leave it on there. I was trying to flog it with some tax left on, but these jokers have blown that out of the water. Hey ho.Grrr.

[AnthonyG]

Personally, I've managed so far to avoid '51' and later reg stuff for my own use for the same reason. I don't see why I should pay £££££££ a year to tax something that's £185 a year if its a bit older..

Thought all this retrospective tax business had been knocked on the head anyway, due to the 'crunch' and numerous other economic/govt cock-ups?