Odd sale?

[Guest]

i'm a bit of a lurker here, but i recognize a few people. Hello all. i too bought a car in the UK, the seller took the taxdisc and i drove the 3 ish hours ride back to Dover. I got told your governement knows which car is taxed and which one isn't, so i think if you explain the situation to the copper which puts you along side the road, it's no problem, right?i took the risk and didn't have any problems, but i haven't seen any police that day

[pogweasel]

Well what a kerfuffle that was. The blokes arrived an hour early, luckily I'd got up at the crack o' dawn to hose the bird shit off the car and coat the inside with cockpit shine.Then they proceeded to nit pick every single little thing they could possible. Then the biggy. Seems he'd decided that he'd register it to himself, but at his friends' UK address. And that as it would continue to be registered here, he would want to keep the tax (fair 'nuff) and that he wanted the optional years MOT I offered in the listing. Oh shit!!!!! I obviously hadn't bothered to do that as it seemed a waste of chops. Cue bumflapping as as anyone knows it is almost impossible to get a saturday MOT appointement at the best of times, let alone at 5 minutes notice. Thankfully the truly saintly DAVERAPID came to the rescue, agreeing to do a test straight away, despite being really busy. Dave, you are a total legend mate!The buyers decided they wanted to come too, rather than going to town or something to kill an hour, of course this did nothing for my bloody pressure!!!!Anyway, we got a pass certificate, they've paid up & gone and we've got our £2000 so all is well that ends well. The upside is that we lost a whopping £5 in depriciation on that car in the 10 months we'd had it.

[shite_meister]

All worked out well then, I love a happy ending etc.A result that deserves a glass of cool refreshing raspberry CrusherNa Zdrowie!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Nice of them to let you know they wanted a fresh MOT, on the day they want to collect! Ah well sounds like you managed the situation with flair and panache, 14/10

[pogweasel]

If by 'flair and panache' you mean 'panic and uncertainty' then yes, a faultless performance.

[Guest]

Nice of them to let you know they wanted a fresh MOT, on the day they want to collect! Ah well sounds like you managed the situation with flair and panache, 14/10

I was thinking the same thing Mr B. I'd have told them to fuck off.

[Pillock]

A year ago i'd have told them to 'do one' (which is a phrase I believe kids use these days, meaning bugger orf). But I guess with buyers being in short supply, you need to humour them a bit, pander to their whims. TBH you're a saint for even trying to get it MoT'ed on a saturday morning, last time I tried a short notice weekend MoT I swear I could still hear the guy laughing after I'd hung up.I'd have probably made sure there was some more bird crap on it to replace the stuff you washed off though. Just to even the balance.To be fair I've only ever sold a car to a foreigner once, an irish chappie. It was the most faultless sale evAr. Met him at the airport, a two-mile drive around, knocked him £20 off because the heater fan was squeaking, money was in my hand. I was so impressed I even gave him my road atlas, because bless him he'd flown over to East Midlands without a clue which direction the ferry was in. The best I could manage was "M1, M42, around Birmingham and keep going west". I got a text 36 hours later saying he was home

[daverapid]

Great to see you again Nick, sorry for being a bit stressed, I was trying to do too many things! When Chris [our other MOT tester that did your car] told me it failed on both CV gaiters I felt really bad! Luckily they just needed reclipping so wasn't so bad after all. Was it you ringing my mobile this morning BTW? I got a muffled strange call a few minutes before you rang the garage and I have no idea what the guy was saying! Thanks for your really nice comments about me on here mate, I've gone all red now!