Most insulting offer you have ever had?

[sam simmons]

I was offered 2 camels (Dromedary) for my wife while out in Eritrea but i haggled for 3 which was point blank refused....

 

I didnt tell her of course

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I was offered 2 camels (Dromedary) for my wife while out in Eritrea but i haggled for 3 which was point blank refused....

 

I didnt tell her of course

Should've held out for more.  My mate was valued at 8 camels but that was somewhere in the Sahara.  (True story...)

[sam simmons]

Should've held out for more.  My mate was valued at 8 camels but that was somewhere in the Sahara.  (True story...)

Eritreans are naturally tight and my wife wasnt looking her best that day...and they were big camels

[Cavcraft]

There's not much better in life than telling some gobshite who's made a stupid offer on your car that it's just been sold for the full asking price. 

[bub2006]

After having serious issues with the vectra at the beginning of last week I needed to sort a car out for the ex wife. Covered around 500 miles in 2 days going to view motors with a maximum budget of 900 quid. Made me realise that lately a scrapper is 500+. She told me she wanted a large hatchback or estate,no mpv,diesel or autos. Nearly everything was an mpv with a diesel lump. I made a silly offer on an avensis that was advertised for 895. AC doesn't work, interior was grim and some marks on body. Car had 109k on clock and 3 months MOT but hasn't failed an not ever nor had any advisories on last MOT. Made a cheeky offer of 650 and got the car for 680. Everyone happy. 35quid valet and all is well. 2 days later my sister asked me to take her car shopping. She wanted an mpv,not fussed if diesel or autos. Bonus I thought as a couple days back they was everywhere. Oh no,now all that was on for sale was cheap large family cars! After another day and 300 mile we bought a zafira 1.6 comfort with 12 months ticket and 1 owner from new for 400 quid which looking at prices was a bit of a bargain. Fuck this car hunting malarkey. I've had enough! Sold the vectra to a friend though who wants the engine for 200 quid.

[plasticvandan]

I've offerred half many times,and many times driven away.key is knowing what to offer,just above pisstake,but below what you would go to,works a charm most of the time.

[adw1977]

£1 part ex for a Mk5 Fiesta when I bought the Duster

 

It wasn’t the tidiest but ran well and had a long MOT / low miles.

 

I know they just didn’t want it before anyone says that

I had similar at Car Giant, offered me something like £50, which was less than scrap value, for my 11 year old Mondeo as a trade in. They tried to tell me scrap was about a quarter of the price that I knew it was.

 

It had seven months MOT and I sold it on Gumtree for £380.

[sam simmons]

I've offerred half many times,and many times driven away.key is knowing what to offer,just above pisstake,but below what you would go to,works a charm most of the time.

I could do with your services soon with a likely car purchase,what is your rate

[Cavcraft]

Charm, good manners and punctuality make a massive MASSIVE difference when buying a car.

[Timewaster]

I had similar at Car Giant, offered me something like £50, which was less than scrap value, for my 11 year old Mondeo as a trade in. They tried to tell me scrap was about a quarter of the price that I knew it was.

 

It had seven months MOT and I sold it on Gumtree for £380.

That's exactly what the dealer wanted you to do.

 

They can't be doing with low value trade ins taking up space and getting £50 and an x box offers only to be sued when it blows up a month later.

 

I once got an extra £200 off a car for not trading in a very scruffy Peugeot.

I got £300 for it but had all the grief that comes with an ebay sale.

[spartacus]

The first work van I bought was an 'X' plate ex police transit, it had done 115'000 miles but looked and ran OK. By the time we had finished with it it had done 200,000+. I put it on eBay and within a couple of hours a local guy phoned and offered £800 for it, he takes them down to Dover, from Sheffield, and puts them in a container to India, allegedly.

I declined his offer and he assured me that it would break for more than £800 so don't let it go for less.

He ended up up winning the auction and giving me £1200 for it, and was happy to do so.

He turned up to collect and after a truly frightening high speed test drive around the local suburban area he loaded it on to a Transit beavertail to drive down south!

[bub2006]

Charm, good manners and punctuality make a massive MASSIVE difference when buying a car.

Exactly. Regards the avensis I turned up around 9pm. I won't discuss price on phone when buying or selling. If its after 8pm I will send a text asking if it's ok to ring or a more suitable time to call the seller. I will give a time that's suitable for us both and turn up at said time. Look over and discuss a price. If we both happy then good if can't agree I'll shake hands and move on.

[wuvvum]

Charm, good manners and punctuality make a massive MASSIVE difference when buying a car.

Going on that logic The Shadow must be Emily fugging Post.

[phil_lihp]

Charm, good manners and punctuality make a massive MASSIVE difference when buying a car.

 

Very well put.  I did not accept the slightly ridiculous offer of £250 on my Accord but the chap who made the offer by email before he'd even asked any questions ensured that I would never deal with him for any price by going straight for the condescending list of non-existent problems it 'probably' had which he'd come up with based on me saying it made a slight noise from the clutch release bearing.  His subsequent slightly higher offers by email and phone with the same patter just sealed him further out of any chance I'd ever bother trying to deal with him.  Had he been polite and at least acknowledged that the offer was less than half the asking price in some way, I might not have got so annoyed.

 

I think it boils down to treating people the way you'd expect to be treated.  I got the ST170 for slightly less than advertised but would never have insulted him with a cheeky offer, I simply treated the seller with polite respect and complimented his very honest advert.  He was wary of me running away from the deal once I saw the car as people had in the past but to my mind I was never leaving without it if he was honest and I was never going to ask for the price to be further altered once I'd given my word.

[Cavcraft]

It goes the other way, too. I think four people offered me the same (less than I really wanted) price for the Corsa recently, one of them took it at that money because he was such a nice bloke.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

It goes the other way, too. I think four people offered me the same (less than I really wanted) price for the Corsa recently, one of them took it at that money because he was such a nice bloke.

I sold my 05 reg Fiesta a couple of years ago (got a free premium advert in Autotrader - brother works for them) and had loads of calls.  One bloke was lowballing me for scrap, I told him the car ran perfectly and apart from the work that needed doing on it (cambelt, air conditioning, seat not folding down) it was in otherwise decent condition minus a couple of dents.  Was offered a bit less than I wanted from a bloke who was buying it for his son as his first car, had a rough quote for the work that needed doing (my advert was very honest) from a mate in the trade and came armed with that.

 

Sold it to him for less than I wanted but was very happy that it was a first car for a young chap and was going to be looked after by his Dad.  Yep.

[dave21478]

Charm, good manners and punctuality make a massive MASSIVE difference when buying a car.

 

in addition to that, have the fuckin money with you. Or at the very least, a substantial deposit...£100 or 20% kind of thing. Anyone pulling the old "yeah, I will take it....I will come back next week with the money" can suck the clagnuts out of my ass hair.

[rantingYoof]

Charm, good manners and punctuality make a massive MASSIVE difference when buying a car.

 

I think every person who's turned up to view a car I've been selling on time, either smiled or just shook my hand while saying hello, and has happily wandered off-topic to chat about things other than the car while also showing an enthusiasm for the car itself has ended up driving off in it.

 

As you've also said, by being enthusiastic and filling me with confidence that the car will be going to the right person, I've also accepted slightly lower offers on the basis of the feel-good factor knowing your car will be cared for, which you cannot really attach a value to.

 

And, as you've also also said, the satisfaction of telling a persistant chancer that you've sold for near asking price is immense.

 

I had some difficulty selling my 9-3 Aero. It went on Autotrader for two weeks and got two enquiries, both very low ball offers made without viewing.  However, I accepted that I had a role in this, because I'd advertised a car with a fault with only three months of ticket left and, being rather too critical, had overplayed the fault.

 

I riskily MOTed it and relisted it on Gumtree making a big deal of the advisory-free fresh MOT, making a passing mention at the fault (clutch-release bearing), emphasising its performance remained wholly unhindered and that it was in otherwise very good mechanical order. I asked for £1250 expecting to accept £1000.

 

Within an hour I'd had an offer of £700; 'mate you've got no chance getting over a grand for that, the clutch/flywheel assembly will need completely replacing'. It's almost like they only made the offer to tell me I was wrong.

 

Within three hours I'd been contacted by someone else, who'd turned up with two mates which initially was a little disconcerting. However, they didn't want to roam around the car picking faults, they simply wanted to talk about the ten or so cars they had between them (mostly Volvos). Within half an hour of turning up, he'd taking it for a test drive and listened to the noise (without showing any particular emotion), his two mates had taken the piss out of him for being a 'Saab' person rather than a Volvo person, he'd offered me £1000, to which I'd cheekily counter-offered £1100, and which he'd immediately accepted, paid in cash from his pocket, and driven off on it.

 

When first matey-boy came back later with "okay, I can do it for £800 at a stretch but that's my final', my response of 'I have sold it for over a grand already' was met with a wonderfully deafening silence.

 

 

TL:DR - everything Billy has said in this thread already.

[bezzabsa]

must admit any ad lately is met with the 'I'll giv ya  xyz cash now'

 

or 'is it still for sale' answer YES.. and - nothing..!! why??

 

have in the past gone in with offers of less than half of the advertised price..and got the item...as said before depends on how you are with them..one i remember most is a Honda C70 offered for £200 (about 1988) so decent money

I turn up, get offered a cup of tea, as i agree his dog jumps on my lap and does the staffy thing of Licking me to death while I'm being beaten to death by his tail..Owner/seller walks out and says 'He hates EVERYONE..he must really like you' and HE dropped price to £100 straight away..after drinking tea and fussing dog, I actually look at the bike, good condition, but tatty..rear tyre bald as a coot, mention this and he says..OK give me £50 and its yours..ps there a new tyre in the shed for it!!

So for fussing a staffy I got £150 knocked off the price..

[bramz7]

I've put the Tempra up for sale for £125 and people are still asking best price. Or £50. Seriously if you have to barter for a car that cheap do me a favour and don't message me.

[dave21478]

I think I moaned about this in the grumpy thread, but television is to blame for this. Slews of cheaply made, low production value pish like bargain hunt, wheeler dealers, place in the sun and all that shit being poured out of the telly all day every day means everyone fancies themselves as a bit of a lovable rogue entrepreneur type.

Add in the anonymity of the internet as someone very rightly said above and you get these wankers sitting in on a Saturday night with nothing better to do than fuck up your ebay auction or send insulting offers that they wouldnt dare to say in person.

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

Back in the days of, lob it in the local free paper with your phone number on the end of the ad.

I got rung up and called a cunt for selling a car.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have never been a fan of Care in the Community...

[Timewaster]

What the watchers of daytime TV fail to grasp is that yes, you can haggle £500 off a £10k car but it doesn't work on a £1500 car.

 

If it is a decent car I am selling I always ask the maximum I think I can get away with and prepare to be knocked down.

 

If it is a heap I just want rid of then it's bottom price in the ad. No offers. Pay up or piss off.

 

It usually works.

[xtriple]

When I traded I got loads of stupid offers, it was part of a days work. But privately, I was selling our Volvo V70. It was an 02 (might have been an 04) in maroon and was, lovely. People came round, spent ages looking, drove it for miles then offered £1200. Car was up for £2600. Their reason? Because that's all they had, nothing wrong with the car.

 

Also had a complete twat look at an Alfa (many years ago) who spent ages looking then went away. I got a phoe call the next day from him where he  offered me £5 if he could take his wife out for a drive in it as it was so nice.

 

No, he didn't want to buy it, just take the missus out for a drive.

[fordperv]

This is why I put cars for sale to the general mouth breathing public at a third over the price what I want for them, everyone is a mike brewer in the making

 

The funniest had to be a 3 door silver mk1.5 focus, a lad rings me have you still got the focus?, so he comes with his mrs in tow having a look around the car and when he had a good look around it, trying his luck thinking of drop the price drastically he told me "well I was looking for a black one" I laughed and told him well it was definately silver in the pictures you saw before you rung me, his mrs nearly choked, he went on to tell me he's seen a black one on a car sales but it's almost double the price not as good condition and more miles, I laughed again and said id better put the price up in that case then, his mrs stood there and told him to buy it when they were conferring but he went away to think about it never to be seen again, nowt stranger than folk, a Romanian chap turned up and paid the asking

[Cavcraft]

My latest thing is when advertising stuff for a price with no offers is to tell the 'experts' who turn up trying to pick faults, that no matter what they think is wrong with the car, the price isn't going to change. 

 

 

Nothing's changed in a lot of respects, though. The same as you know those who make offers before they've viewed or ask for your 'best price' aren't worth bothering with, those who ask questions already answered on the advert are just to be avoided. Not even worth answering them 99% of the time, which often makes them really annoyed so is doubly worth it.

[Mudster]

I haven't ever got upset or irritated by any offer and I would either accept or politely decline. Got offered £600 for a Honda CRM 250 which eventually sold for £1200. Guy kept upping his out of ebay 'buy now' offer as the auction went on. He was looking for a bargain which I understand but I certainly never felt insulted. I respond to all offers politely as it's just a 'business' transaction battle of wits bartering. It's not personal insults to me and I don't treat them as such.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

"what's your best price?"

 

Well now. MY best price, the price that would work best for ME would be £1,000,000 in cash please.

 

Never ever ever ever ever enter into price negotiations via text or phone. If they chip £50 off you before they've even left their house you are doomed

 

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[sierraman]

I'm probably about to do this to the owner of the tidy 04 Focus across the road from me. Its only done 50k, tax and MOT ran out last month and it hasn't moved for weeks.

 

Put a note on the window asking if he's thinking of getting shut, I'll only offer him £150-200. I've got a feeling he probably will think its worth a grand or something ridiculous. Whereas I know otherwise.

 

Looks a passer anyway, not a spot of rust on it.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....I have never been a fan of Care in the Community...

These days it's more like Couldn't Care Less In The Community.