Most stupid message while flogging a shiter

[Shortos]

This is pretty much why I asked the question as I wasn’t sure whether I’m just throwing my teddies out of the pram 

[Dave_Q]

Some people do still operate like there is some sort of code of honour and you have to let the first person to call view first or you'll be seen as a scoundrel.

Try not to get wound up about it, his prerogative to take a 50/50 chance that the other buyer will either not turn up or will turn up but will only be able to offer £400 and/or a non-pedigree staffy for it because his budgie needs surgery and he's skint because the police raided his weed grow.

[Fraz]

I’ve been trawling through gumtree and fb marketplace for a cheap sub £1500 car recently and I’m really struggling with the morons. 
 

The way the cheap car market is at the moment it appears there’s no haggling, things sell within an hour or two and if you’re not quick to message you don’t even get a reply. 
 

The only stuff I’ve really had a reply from is cars which have problems and require repair and don’t sell as quick. Even there the price is higher than it should be (IMHO) 

[davehedgehog31]

Was talking about this the other night, the price of cars has taken quite a lot of the fun out it for me. 

The type of thing you'd pick up for £400 with a ticket is now well into "actual money", money that could make a difference elsewhere in life. 

There's an element of rose tinted specs, it was always hard going trawling Gumtree but don't recall it being quite so dire. 

I like buying and selling and experiencing different makes and models. In the glorious year of 2018 I went through 13 cars, can't see my turnover ever being that high again. More inclined to look after what I've got now seeing as they appear to be actual assets. 

[Erebus]

15 hours ago, Shortos said:

Am I the assh*le in this situation? More than happy to be told I’ve got the car selling etiquette wrong. 
a Focus is up for sale on eBay for £800 with a Buy It Now button and Make an Offer button. I message and offer £750 to pick up tomorrow or Sunday. The seller replies he has someone viewing it (only viewing) on Monday so is unwilling to consider my offer until after that. I message back saying I’ll pay the full price so as not to lose the car over a mere £50. The seller replies No.  I’ve not replied yet as im not sure if he’s being a moron or I’m being pushy.  What say you? 

The seller is being a fool to himself.  You're obviously a serious buyer and the seller is turning you down so a potential messer can view it or not even turn up!  It's first there with the cash

[sierraman]

I once had something similar on a Mk1 Sierra, the woman was adamant that someone was coming to view on Wednesday that sounded keen, despite me saying if it’s as described I’ll have it and be there within the hour. Absolute pillocks, hopefully a pack of six turned up and put the fucker on its roof. 

[sierraman]

32 minutes ago, davehedgehog31 said:

Was talking about this the other night, the price of cars has taken quite a lot of the fun out it for me. 

The type of thing you'd pick up for £400 with a ticket is now well into "actual money", money that could make a difference elsewhere in life. 

There's an element of rose tinted specs, it was always hard going trawling Gumtree but don't recall it being quite so dire. 

I like buying and selling and experiencing different makes and models. In the glorious year of 2018 I went through 13 cars, can't see my turnover ever being that high again. More inclined to look after what I've got now seeing as they appear to be actual assets. 

It’s not really worth buying anything with problems now as people expect it to be pitched at just above what the part would cost from some god forsaken scrapyard in Bury on eBay less than a good one. 

[Timewaster]

Out of the normal AS realm but more towards classic and sought after stuff but....

Oh look, car and classic have a 20k mile immaculate example with one owner, full history, always garaged, all original, a folder of invoices and in the best colour for £25k.

Owner glances out the window at his 120k mile, part history, scruffy interior, lacquer peeling shit box in a hideous shade of green and thinks "well that must be £20k then!"

[SteersWithThrottle]

Not me, but this turned up in my farcebook feed:

[Low ontime]

On 3/18/2023 at 9:11 AM, sierraman said:

I once had something similar on a Mk1 Sierra, the woman was adamant that someone was coming to view on Wednesday that sounded keen, despite me saying if it’s as described I’ll have it and be there within the hour. Absolute pillocks, hopefully a pack of six turned up and put the fucker on its roof. 

Some people work in odd ways! 
 

for me if I was selling first with actual money gets it.

if I’m buying I’m going with money or the means to transfer, it’s not fucking window shopping  if it checks out ok.

[SteersWithThrottle]

Another one shamelessly nicked from farcebook feed:

[RoverFolkUs]

How to approach FB marketplace scammers, confuse them with gibberish then piss them off

[Mr Livered]

Presumably "Linda" is messaging vendors en masse on behalf of capitalvininspect, trying to get them to pay for dodgy checks or whatever they do? I hadn't heard of that company or that scam, but if it's obvious to me it's hard to imagine anyone falling for it.

[RoverFolkUs]

13 minutes ago, Mr Livered said:

Presumably "Linda" is messaging vendors en masse on behalf of capitalvininspect, trying to get them to pay for dodgy checks or whatever they do? I hadn't heard of that company or that scam, but if it's obvious to me it's hard to imagine anyone falling for it.

Yeah I'm not sure whether it's a scam to simply get money out of people for the bogus checks, or if it's a bit more sinister by means of a phishing scam to harvest information 

[lesapandre]

4 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

How to approach FB marketplace scammers, confuse them with gibberish then piss them off

How thin skinned and humourless these people are. 

It's a sales approach by an agent it appears. May be one of those 'make £1000 per week' commission from home things. The 'f*** o**' sounds distinctly British phrasing so may be operated from here could be said to fall under the Malicious Communications Act that unprovoked FO.

They always want to control the narrative on set lines to their advantage. A bit of innocent silliness soon flushes them out or riles them as here. They have no time to waste as its on to the next punter.

Asking them questions works well too.

THE company is online - I've not accessed their site and don't intend to. They have AI it appears. They may be an innocent party.

But very little company information available.

https://capitalvininspect.com/

Based in California. Here:

[loserone]

I had one of those last year. They were a pretty hard sell and didn't just say fuck off straight away 😂

[lesapandre]

It's still a fraudulent approach to pose as a buyer. There is going to be some legislation covering this. 

Payment will  be through bank card I assume. Any card provider is going to most unimpressed by sale by deception if that what it is.

[Metal Guru]

On 18/03/2023 at 08:16, Dave_Q said:

Some people do still operate like there is some sort of code of honour and you have to let the first person to call view first or you'll be seen as a scoundrel.

Try not to get wound up about it, his prerogative to take a 50/50 chance that the other buyer will either not turn up or will turn up but will only be able to offer £400 and/or a non-pedigree staffy for it because his budgie needs surgery and he's skint because the police raided his weed grow.

I don’t think it’s playing fair if you make an appointment with the first caller and the second says he can be there earlier, so you let them and then tell the first one, it’s gone.

Within reason of course, if your first caller says he can’t make it until next week, you can’t be expected to wait.

[sierraman]

People piss folks around someone rotten if it’s a car for sale. You can almost sense a sob story coming along about a run of bad luck. It’s done Car Take Back and WBAC well though, they don’t give a fuck about how shit your lucks been or have to put up with buyers turning up in packs of six. Only way to go to be honest.