Most insulting offer you have ever had?

[lesapandre]

I was going to say great post but then I thought I'd say that next week by text and only actually say a half great post ...that my cousin will look at first because he wants it for his dad...oh and could you deliver the post to a service area just outside Birmingham where we will meet you?

[billy_bunter]

Its a strange world. I know I am asking way too much but not one offer.  It is a classic in a niche market so different type of game. Still doing my swede in though. The reason for the high price is trying to stop it being cut in half to make a fire breathing rally monster by some dickwad who will only get to the point of stripping 2 cars to bits and chopping them in half and then realise he doesn't have the skills to make one good car. terry Fuckwits the lot of them.

 

Reading this thread whilst waiting for someone to offer me half of what I am asking for the car and not one phone call in 6 months. Touched a rant nerve!

 

feel a little better now

[barrett]

The most insulting offer I've ever had was made by somebody on here, which I did think was the 'done thing' (I've never made an offer at all on an AS car)

 

On the other side of the coin my boss, who has been buying stupid cars since the 1950s, generally offers 50% of the asking price on any car he's interested in. Nine times out of ten he gets told where to go, but that's still a pretty great average for buying cars at exactly half what they're advertised for, and he has a Pegaso Z102 so who am I to judge

[PiperCub]

Have found the best place to get stupid offers is when selling a vehicle on a one-make/marque forum so I don't bother expecting much if I do try that route as it seems there's always a hard core who think 'Because we are all enthusiasts' they should get it for peanuts. No FRO, you pay what I'm happy with or go away and bother someone else.

 

One of the worst was Suzuki Bandit forum. I put my 1200 on there, asking for about £1000. It was well worth it, a great well kept bike (I wasn't really using it any more and wanted to move on), several idiots started offering £650-£800 and were genuinely taken aback when I blew them out. Eventually telling one persistant twat directly to fuck off. They did me a favour really as I put it on ebay and it sold quickly for £1200 which ironically is what I'd paid for it five years previously! 

 

The other one I had last year was for my immaculate 205GTi which wasn't & isn't for sale (it's a keeper, had it years). This moron approaches me when I've parked outside a local shop, he says how much he likes the car - usual 'used to have one' 'Ought not to have sold it' etc, comments, then he asks, how much I want for it, I replied it wasn't for sale, he gets the arse a bit, thinks I'm trying to hussle up the price which I tell him isn't the case as it's not for sale. (It's weird how some people get really offended when you refuse to sell them your car/bike when it's not even for sale in the first place - why?).

 

After a cycle or two of this repeating itself, he finally chips up with what he thinks is a killer line "Look, I'm prepared to go up to £2K and that's it". I then inform him how much it's valued at and the factor by which he's shy of the mark even if I wanted to sell and if he didn't believe the prices, he needed to look them up on the interweb before embarassing himself!!!

He stomps off in a huff, telling me what a dreamer I am and how he can 'Get ten for that money'. I laughed and told him if he did to give me a shout as i'd double his money and still make a packet. Made me laugh anyway. 

[jakebullet]

I had a random one like that. Queuing on dual carriageway for the roundabout, n passenger in other lane winds window down n says "Discovery for sale mate?". Er, no???

 

He then starts bidding me, until I finally get on the roundabout with "final offer £500".

When I'm not interested in selling how is offering less than scrap value going to change my mind?

[PiperCub]

^^ Even happens when you have a car that you are about to scrap! My 406 had reached the end of the line last year, offered £85 incl collection by a local outfit which was fine and fair with me. Still got two seperate knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers offer me £50 & £40 respectively, they were unable to comprehend why I told them to do one.

 

As you say, why would you sell for less than scrap value (mates rates not included of course)? Just so some loser can scrap it instead and get money for nothing? This makes no sense. 

[Timewaster]

There was a Numpty who used to knock on my door every couple of months asking if the Sierra was for sale.

He seemed harmless enough, I think he was genuinely interested in the car rather than an opportunist pikey and was always polite. Although he wouldn't take "I'm not selling it" for an answer.

He never gave up. I never let him get an offer in but I'm assuming it would be buttons.

It almost became a joke.

 

Then was the time I'd been at work all day and night and was sleeping in the next day.

I'd been in bed a couple of hours and was woken by a knock at the door, thinking it would be a delivery I stumbled out of bed, threw on some clothes, must have slept funny as I had a dead leg that meant I half fell down the stairs, opened the door only to find this grinning yokel..

 

He has not been back since.

[Angrydicky]

I don't get 'insulted' at low offers, I just laugh and politely decline. Then maybe counter offer if they come up with a better figure. Bartering is all part and parcel of buying used cars. I got £200 off the Vauxhall Royale when I bought it, because the seller was keen for it to go to a good home where it wouldn't get modded. The one months mot a and various faults pointed out helped.

Sellers have told me they are insulted by my first offers though. I think, if people are genuinely offended by low offers on their cars then they need to grow a thicker skin. ESPECIALLY if they refuse to produce a price and just want 'offers' . Obviously I'm going to go in pisstakingly low. "You're insulting me mate". Well, you should have told me what you wanted then (always way over the top when they finally cough)

[bangernomics]

I got offered £3000 for the last XJ super v8 I had. with under 40k and fsh.

 

It was absolutely mint and I’d advertised it for £7k having had every spec perfected (divorce struck and ruined it). The guy wouldn’t give up and kept coming back every other day for a week and offered £4K then £5k so I told him to FO in the most impolite way. In the end he turned up as the new owner was driving off in it having paid the full amount with the full amount in his hands.

 

Irony was wasted on him. He asked for the buyers details... phhhttt

[captain_cal]

Am I a wanker for offering £650 for a car advertised for £800, that has already been listed twice on ebay?

[adw1977]

Am I a wanker for offering £650 for a car advertised for £800, that has already been listed twice on ebay?

No.

[Guest Hooli]

Am I a wanker for offering £650 for a car advertised for £800, that has already been listed twice on ebay?

 

You might be a wanker (I don't know you after all) but if so that's not the reason. A wanker would offer £350.

[AMC Rebel]

Some people just cannot seem to countenance concluding any sort of transaction, however tiny, without feeling they've got a "bargain".

 

I once had a totally rotten Mk2 Fiesta, but with a perfect low-mileage engine and a mint Ghia interior - so put it out for £50 for a quick sale, thinking maybe an autograss racer might want it.

 

Two blokes arrived and spent over an hour poking around it, driving it up and down the road, chin-scratching, teeth-sucking, you name it - you'd think they were appraising a Bugatti at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, not lifting a fifty quid MOT-failure Fezzer from a back street in Hove...

 

Eventually one of them put his ultra-serious face on and made me a "firm offer" of £30, like he was fucking Warren Buffet conducting some corporate merger of two international business empires.

 

I should have told him to fuck away off just to see what would happen, but I was so incredulous (and keen to get my life back) that I just went with it - the drama of getting this rusty old shitter at almost half price was clearly more important to him than twenty quid was to me.

 

This times eleventy million.  When I sold my old disco equipment on ebay some of the questions were so genuinely moronic that I blocked several folk from bidding.

 

I dunno why everyone thinks they are Sir Alan fucking Sugar nowadays - when they are buying something for 20 quid.  Also the reverse applies - I stopped going to car boot sales since everyone seemed to be keener to take every single item home than accept less than twice the brand new price for every item.  I should add that I generally don't haggle at boot sales - I ask the price if there isn't one and if it's stupid I just leave it alone, if anywhere like fair, I buy without dicking about.  Also if when I go, I try hard to sell everything - because that's why I am there. 

[mercrocker]

 

On the other side of the coin my boss, who has been buying stupid cars since the 1950s, generally offers 50% of the asking price on any car he's interested in. Nine times out of ten he gets told where to go, but that's still a pretty great average for buying cars at exactly half what they're advertised for, and he has a Pegaso Z102 so who am I to judge

 

I know a handful of folk with proper decent collections, including car, motorcycle and commercial vehicle hoarders.   I think without exception they are the 50pc offer type.  If you start off in life wanting a 1000 things and "only" end up with 100, that's still a bloody massive achievement.

 

Straightforward low offers don't offend me but wasting my time does - I have no problem with somebody bidding a stupid price, unless they have a gun in their hand....As per the above post - its the TV wheeler-dealer copyists that fuck me off the most.

[DodgeRover]

Am I a wanker for offering £650 for a car advertised for £800, that has already been listed twice on ebay?

Did you offer in person after actually looking at the car and working out what it was worth?

 

Did you ask for it cheaper because it was a long way to drive to collect it?

 

Did you just send an email saying 650?

[strangeangel]

It's not so much the amounts I am insulted by, but the lack of effort on the part of yer average Scumtree Facetard types. In particular the monosyllabic replies consisting of no more than (usually a two digit) number followed by a question mark; the latter being a luxury that not all of them feel the need to include.

[DodgeRover]

That's gumtrees make an offer system that sends them in that formst

[Vince70]

My favourite is when you have a £1000 car and put it up for say £600 for a quick sale and you start getting the texts saying £200 cash without even seeing the car.

 

What I usually do is text back £650 as it drives them mad lol.

 

I really don’t want to be selling the E36 as I just know I’m going to get the drifting mob or wannabe drug dealers knocking at my door ready to pimp my ride.

It’s a real nice low mileage example so I’m going to get the quotes of I saw one the other day and it was an M3 with only 20000 on the clock and I could of had it for £350 so yours is only worth £150.

I really hate selling motors.

[Kiltox]

That's gumtrees make an offer system that sends them in that formst

Nah, not if there is a question mark

[strangeangel]

That's gumtrees make an offer system that sends them in that formst

 

I've had offers composed by people who were clearly conversent with the English language too, though, so I suspect they iz just tards.

[AMC Rebel]

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.

 Off topic but this pisses me off too.  If I buy at a dealer - one reason is that I want to chop in my current shed.  For them to reject it or offer £1 sort of takes away half the point of buying there.

[UltraWomble]

Derisory offers are par for the course with selling anything.

Currently trying to sell ab as new & never used Kenwood KMIX with the mincer attachment ( just look on eBay at the price of the AX643 alone) got it up for £200, ideally want £180 but would take £150.

 

First offer: £40

 

My reply was "can you guess what Im going to say?" No??? Fuck Right Off.

[Tamworthbay]

My favourite is when you have a £1000 car and put it up for say £600 for a quick sale and you start getting the texts saying £200 cash without even seeing the car.

What I usually do is text back £650 as it drives them mad lol.

I really don’t want to be selling the E36 as I just know I’m going to get the drifting mob or wannabe drug dealers knocking at my door ready to pimp my ride.

It’s a real nice low mileage example so I’m going to get the quotes of I saw one the other day and it was an M3 with only 20000 on the clock and I could of had it for £350 so yours is only worth £150.

I really hate selling motors.

it’s always a laugh doing that, if I put no offers and someone asks if I am open to offers I always reply that I am willing look at any offers of £price x 2 or over. Usually either get no response or a load of abuse which is funny.

[New POD]

Have you been to Ellesmere Port?

 

I'm been to the boat museum and around the OLD V6 assembly line at GM before they sent it to erm Canada ? And my niece lives in a flat NEXT to the boat museum, and I have been to Cheshire oaks and I once had an interview at a box making factory near the Astra plant.

I can verify that it is better than Runcorn, or Widnes (Probably)

[New POD]

I have been known to say "For every fault you can find that I've not already mentioned I'll knock £25 quid off"

 

The stupid thing is that if they looked hard enough they could get £400 off, but they don't, and they get £50 quid off.

 

I bought a 126 once for £500.  It was shit because they are shit. It was fairly reliable once i'd got a new dizzy from Poland. We decided to flog it as it was horrible. So I advertised it for £250 and mentioned the small dent in the wing in the advert.  This was BEFORE the internet, so I had a lovely thick woman from handsworth turn up and waste an hour of my time. She wanted it, but could I wait til pay day. 

Then 3 Asians (I don't know if that is relevant, but they were stereotypical of something) turned up to "haggle" I took them for a drive, they ummed and ahhed. they offered £100.

At this point a bloke gets out of his car, and says "I'm a bit early, when these lads have finished, I'll have it at the asking price"  

The 3 lads thought this was my mate - but I'd only spoken to him on the phone.

I told them that they now had first refusal £250 or walk away, They ummed and ahhed and offered £150.

I tried to explain. I said "look I'll give you 5 mins and then I'm taking this man's offer" They offered £175.

After 5 mins I asked them to leave. They seemed upset.

Bloke from Worcester gave me £250 cash as they were refusing to leave. That seemed to get the message.

He said "I could see the car worked, because you managed to drive up the hill with 4 people in it, and it's hardly overpriced is it"

I phoned the Lady from Handsworth to let her know that it was sold and she cried down the phone. FFS.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I have been known to say "For every fault you can find that I've not already mentioned I'll knock £25 quid off"

 

The stupid thing is that if they looked hard enough they could get £400 off, but they don't, and they get £50 quid off.

 

I bought a 126 once for £500.  It was shit because they are shit. It was fairly reliable once i'd got a new dizzy from Poland. We decided to flog it as it was horrible. So I advertised it for £250 and mentioned the small dent in the wing in the advert.  This was BEFORE the internet, so I had a lovely thick woman from handsworth turn up and waste an hour of my time. She wanted it, but could I wait til pay day. 

Then 3 Asians (I don't know if that is relevant, but they were stereotypical of something) turned up to "haggle" I took them for a drive, they ummed and ahhed. they offered £100.

At this point a bloke gets out of his car, and says "I'm a bit early, when these lads have finished, I'll have it at the asking price"  

The 3 lads thought this was my mate - but I'd only spoken to him on the phone.

I told them that they now had first refusal £250 or walk away, They ummed and ahhed and offered £150.

I tried to explain. I said "look I'll give you 5 mins and then I'm taking this man's offer" They offered £175.

After 5 mins I asked them to leave. They seemed upset.

Bloke from Worcester gave me £250 cash as they were refusing to leave. That seemed to get the message.

He said "I could see the car worked, because you managed to drive up the hill with 4 people in it, and it's hardly overpriced is it"

I phoned the Lady from Handsworth to let her know that it was sold and she cried down the phone. FFS.

Chancers. Life is full of the eejits.

[Split_Pin]

I got some deluded woman messaging me on Facebook about my sons little tikes 4x4 I had up for £35 in Marketplace. It was in excellent condition as he had hardly played with it. I declined her offer of £25 and could I meet her at the Airdrie turn off of the M80 because she had to travel from Glasgow. The advert said collection only.

 

She then got upset because she had already told her son he was having it. I just ignored the message, the next she heard from me was an automatic notification that it had sold, to which she replied "thanks".

 

I also put up for sale some of my sons other garden toys, like a Rolly John Deere Tractor so that he could buy some computer games. After a string of one word messages with derisory offers from people who I would describe as losers, they each sold for the full asking price to an outwardly sane and rational person.

[chaseracer]

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

 

How is it YOU do so well then, our Billeh...?

 

[richardthestag]

pretty much every time I would sell a car I had shit. only the two most recent had no agro at all. That's AS customer for ya

 

Prior to the intraneweb  selling through autotrader and such like constant issues with dickheads, maybe I dont sell so many cars these days but it seems easier.

 

Autotrader knobs include

 

Wycombe Massive rocking up with extended family to test drive a cheap Mondeo, in fact it was the cheapest in that age range because it had done 20k / year at my hands and was now showing 80k. FFSH bargain price. Offer was 1/3 of asking, I just locked the car and went back inside. Chap phones me up (didnt bang on the door, maybe showing off he had a Mobily in 1999. and asks what the issue is and I explain, "you waste my time and i'll waste yours" he responds "whats your best price?" got to be the asking price hasnt it, fuck all wrong with it except it is a 95 mondeo with 80k on the clock. He buggered off eventually, then calls me every day upping the offer by £10. Sometimes you just have an instinct that a buyer is going to be a right pain in the arse. I am not sure that I would have sold it to him for full asking price because he would have been on the phone moaning about dead flies on the headlamps of some such shit.

 

Sold it within a week for near the asking price. let fucknugget keep upping his offer by £10 at the time for nearly 3 weeks after I sold it.  well he didnt ask if i had sold it yet until the very last call, and I told I sold it weeks ago

 

Trying to sell my 88 thin bumper Golf GTI 3 door in black but 8v. absolutely the perfect GTI (dont bore me with the 16v shit 8v is sweeter and less damaging to the driving licence. Car was again high miles 110k iirc and it was getting on for 12 years old but fucking immaculate. Advertised it right in the mid range range of GTI for sale. Lad and his mate come and have a look, spend an hour going over it, checking everything. take it for a 40 mile test drive on my fucking fuel. Then says he is really looking for a 16v will I take 50% of the asking. Errrr fuck off.

 

Sold it 2 weeks later in a bidding war between two dubbers in my yard for £100 over asking. Sadly the winner was a knuckledrager who pineappled it before smashing it up 6 months later. gutted

[MikeKnight]

Sold my GT6 Mk1 to a nice young lad who unfortunately came along with his dad. You know the kind. "I had one of these", yes of course you did. "Oh that's not original", what.. you mean the deep dish steel wheels that're factory fit but incredibly rare in deep dish form that I had to hunt down at great cost? I disliked his dad immediately.

 

Wanker dad made the kid low-ball me an offer of 8k or so (I was asking 11k, which for a Mk1 in good condition isn't high) and I refused. Dad gave me the "oh we're just wasting our time then" huff and huffed off so he could huff at home about it.

 

Young lad called me later and gave me 11.5k in cash next day. I'm not sure why? I certainly wasn't going to argue. I think the 500 was an apology for his dads behaviour as he said some other unpleasant things about the car and myself during the viewing.

 

Nice kid. Wish I'd have had 11.5k burning a hole in my back pocket in my early 20's.