Most stupid message while flogging a shiter

[catsinthewelder]

This does seem to have turned into the weekly everyone else is idiots thread.  Why not look underneath a £200 car?  I wish I had when I bought a mk2 Espace for £205 in the early days of eBay motors as I'd have seen all the yellow chalk and disputed the sellers tale that he hadn't had time to take it for a test.  If the second of Billys photos is an enlargement of the first I might not have spotted the missing plug lead and indeed wondered if it ran (although I'm guessing you said it didn't in the description).  I appreciate that "500 2nite" messages are irritating but perhaps as a nation we need to start accepting descriptions with "no offers" without grumbling?

[Cavcraft]

Fair point, Rich. He did know it wasn't running, but then again everyone else must have read it wasn't registered but it hasn't stop myriad questions about a number plate and a log book!

[wuvvum]

9 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

If we still have a quote of the year thread I'm calling this a contender 

We do, but it's up against some tough competition with Mr Bo11ox's "parsnip-fingered nonce" rant.

[somewhatfoolish]

35 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Can it be ridden back to Runcorn?

If that's downhill then yes.  

[bezzabsa]

First to see will bye....(yh spelt wrong)

No more timewasters 

in the same ad??? so 1st to see DID'NT buy!!!!

 

Or the ever great

 

NO OFFERS I KNOW WHAT I HAVE

 

usually a rust heap that would be better swept up!!!

[Split_Pin]

4 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

We do, but it's up against some tough competition with Mr Bo11ox's "parsnip-fingered nonce" rant.

I'd like to see that! Goes off to find it...

[New POD]

39 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Can it be ridden back to Runcorn?

I suspect that anyone from Runcorn, will be saying "What's your address" and "when will you out" 

And arranging to come and "bye" it  whilst you are out. 

(No offence to anyone from Runcorn, but I worked in a factory there for 7 years and have met the thieves from The Park Gate Estate that got Liverpool it's reputation) 

[New POD]

And I didn't misspell bye.

 

I mean say good BYE to it. 

[Uncle Jimmy]

I think some of em just fancy a chat, a bit lonely maybe, so long as it stays on the internet I've nothing, quite literally nothing,  against talking to random Nigerian gangsters about knackered old motors.

[DodgyBastard]

A 125cc bike I was selling for £1k

[DodgyBastard]

Another bike I was selling...

[DodgyBastard]

A bike I did end up selling for £1k

[DodgyBastard]

This was amusing, a member of this very forum giving me grief for selling the niva without "doing anything to it" for more money without realising he was actually speaking with me on Facebook...

I also had another couple of forum members give me grief about it.

[DodgyBastard]

[HMC]

Brilliant! I had that on retro rides years ago, I wanted to buy a bmw e28 and someone started messaging me explaining  how the vendor bought it for x, y months ago- I wasn’t exactly sure what was going on or what to say, so just said thanks. It didn’t change my interest in the car. It felt like it was considered a crime to ask anything other than what it was bought for.

[sierraman]

And that’s before we’ve got to the debacle of the Cortina!

Fair enough on a £200 car poke your head underneath but bloody hell it doesn’t need an inspection of every square inch of the floor. There’s not a lot you can’t find simply sticking your head under the car for 30 seconds.

[DVee8]

This is the message i received on Saturday, from the lad that bought the golf I had for sale just before Christmas.

Mark never was lo book f golf camr tgst eith thr lssr owner houlf of toljk

I then received this.

Get intouvh plspr ile pop threw gert s bit tomr get ftid csr right v was reply

to which i kind of deciphered.

Hi Leslie, I sent the logbook for the Golf off to the DVLA on the 28th December.

As the DVLA are on furlough and not all working it could take a few weeks for it to turn up.

 

Not t worry cheers f reply thougb

To be fair though he was a canny lad

 

 

 

 

 

 

[DodgyBastard]

I just don't understand why you would bother messaging...

[wuvvum]

You do seem to attract them...

[DodgyBastard]

A fucked 305 van...

[DodgyBastard]

I never did sell this one...

[Mr Laurence]

You’re a lot more patient than I would have been

[Dick Longbridge]

11 minutes ago, DodgyBastard said:

I never did sell this one...

Did you crop the next part of the text where he said he needs to get back to his game of Fornite before his mum calls him down for tea? 

[DodgyBastard]

Cash?

[DodgyBastard]

Cheap vans and off road bikes seem to bring out the dregs of society.

[Cavcraft]

If anyone should ever write a book about trying to sell things, it's you. That penniless teenager one still makes me laugh, absolute gold.  

[Alan Prost]

Well this just in.... no probs I will just pass by and see if you like it, only 3 plus hours drive!

[sutty2006]

Fuckin hate um. Messing pricks. I’ve gone the same way as you. Just drag them along 

[sierraman]

7 minutes ago, Alan Prost said:

Well this just in.... no probs I will just pass by and see if you like it, only 3 plus hours drive!

That sounds like code for something, I’d swerve that one.

[HMC]

I wonder, has the internet age made it a lot worse or was it this bad in its own way, if this was for instance 1984 through the medium of exchange and mart or whatever.