Tossers on Retro Rides [part 109]

[Rocket88]

I recently bought avery tidy Audi 200 Turbo off the Pistonheads forum. With travel costs, it cost me the thick end of a grand. Since then, I've replaced a couple of rear wheel bearings, and sorted out the front callipers. A really nice Herald has now dropped into my lap, and I've decided to sell, so I shoved on RR for £1295, offering to pay travel costs for anyone who came to Jersey to buy it.

Some tosser apparently posted some fairly abusive comments [now deleted by moderator] about my "profiteering". The previous owner had the usual band of wasters making viewing appointments, and then not turning up, probably the same tossers who are now complaining.

[Negative Creep]

We all get annoyed by people buying a car cheap then selling it on at a profit. But at the end of the day if you saw a car for £500 that could be punted on for a grand, you'd be a muppet to turn it down

[Alexg]

Fair play to Rmad for his no nonsense response though.

 

I had a similar thing on RR when I advertised a Montego I'd won on ebay 4 months before. I advertised it for about £100 more than I paid, although this included the road tax I had just bought for it. The first reply told every one what I had paid for it on ebay and questioned why I was asking for more than this! What a c**t.

[cort16]

That really rips my knitting. As rmad said on RR. If you don't like what someones asking for it don't buy it.

If you buy a car on ebay cheap for 500 and sell it for 1000 then good on you. You spent your money and took the initiative to buy it then sell it on risking the fact it might burst into flames or something. There is however no telling some folk so I wouldn't worry about it.

[trigger]

I was expecting comments like that when i selling the Mk3 but luckily noone said anything.

[retrogeezer]

yeh but we all thought it!!

[mk1_4dr]

yeh but we all thought it!!

 

[Cavcraft]

Some people are just pathetic. Did you put a gun to the seller's head and demand he take a low(er) offer for it? Of course not. Just ignore the jealous trolls who've nothing better to do, these two bob arseholes are everywhere these days and not worth the time of day.

 

As Alex said, fair play to Rmad for taking no prisoners.

[messerschmitt owner]

went to look at the thread and saw a 57 blue Vauxhall Wyvern for sale - I think it's my wife's old one but plate raped.

[outlaw118]

To quote my old nan....

FUCK 'EM.

[pb1969]

Im quite impressed to find that there is actually another response to an ad on retro rides, other than one of the three default ones

 

" id have that if it wasnt so far away "

 

" if i had the money "

 

" if i hadnt just bought one "

[Guest]

Im quite impressed to find that there is actually another response to an ad on retro rides, other than one of the three default ones

 

" id have that if it wasnt so far away "

 

" if i had the money "

 

" if i hadnt just bought one "

 

OOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFF

[HillmanImp]

TBH, it does annoy me when someone buys a car, makes a meal of the fact they are 'saving' it and then immediately try to punt it on the same forum for more cash after doing nowt. Seen it a few times. How is that saving it? It's making it harder for someone who wants to save it to have it. Taking into account some overheads is fine but some people seem to take the Mic. It's the way they are wanting praise for their 'selfless' act that does my head in.

 

I am hoping to make a profit on the Sera but we will have spent some time and money putting it on the road and quite truthfully I could do with the money.

 

I am no motoring hero like Mr Bollox who is happy spending dozens of hours on a shagged worthless car and then selling it on for less than he paid for it but he may well be richer (and more dedicated and talented) than me. I would love to do that but its not possible for many reasons, mainly that I don't really know what I am doing.

[messerschmitt owner]

Im quite impressed to find that there is actually another response to an ad on retro rides, other than one of the three default ones

 

" id have that if it wasnt so far away "

 

" if i had the money "

 

" if i hadnt just bought one "

 

OOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFF

and there was my response to the wyvern ad -

I think that's my wife's old car

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=FSW&action=display&thread=111633

 

 

335 to shiply it from Glasgow, would have to sell the BX but ...

[HillmanImp]

Are you saying the plate is lnl 250? The plate on the car is different or am I being stupid?

[messerschmitt owner]

Are you saying the plate is lnl 250? The plate on the car is different or am I being stupid?

it was plate raped before my wife bought it - its original plate was LNL 250, then she had it when it was an A Plate (number sold by owner previous to her), and now, if it is the same car, it has an age-related number to replace the A plate.

 

There can't be that many 57 Wyverns with Cresta trim in Scotland, let alone Navy blue ones with light blue interiors.She had it before the PAs.

[HillmanImp]

Are you saying the plate is lnl 250? The plate on the car is different or am I being stupid?

it was plate raped before my wife bought it - its original plate was LNL 250, then she had it when it was an A Plate (number sold by owner previous to her), and now, if it is the same car, it has an age-related number to replace the A plate.

 

There can't be that many 57 Wyverns with Cresta trim in Scotland, let alone Navy blue ones with light blue interiors.She had it before the PAs.

 

That makes sense. Was just checking you had not accidentally put whiskey on your corn flakes

[messerschmitt owner]

thing is, I have almost enough cash to buy it, get it shiplyed and do a little work to get it MoT'd - do I?

[gtd2000]

 

That makes sense. Was just checking you had not accidentally put whiskey on your corn flakes

 

So he's not drinking Scotch then?

 

As an aside there was a Hyundai XG30 on the eBay thread over in Glasgow with 40k on it (on Gumtree) - for £800, looked in great nick - even considered it myself and it's now been bought and on offer at £2100 (dropped from £2200) in Crieff. Personally, I think somewhere over the grand mark would be more realistic.

[Cavcraft]

If something's over-priced it likely won't sell anyhow.

[Negative Creep]

Im quite impressed to find that there is actually another response to an ad on retro rides, other than one of the three default ones

 

" id have that if it wasnt so far away "

 

" if i had the money "

 

" if i hadnt just bought one "

 

OOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFF

 

 

Of course you'd never get those replies here......

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I really dislike Retrorides - it's Pistonheads for owners of old crap. The same penniless smartarses who make it all too much like hard work.

 

 

U Pull It in York have a 1982 Y plate Audi 100CC complete with the CD030 decals and the 4+E box. 1.9 litres of five pot rightness.

 

And a destruction order meaning that it can never grace the roads with a five cylinder thrum again.

[trigger]

it was plate raped before my wife bought it - its original plate was LNL 250, then she had it when it was an A Plate (number sold by owner previous to her), and now, if it is the same car, it has an age-related number to replace the A plate.

 

I didn't think that once a car has been plate raped that you could change the plate again?, This one hasn't been taxed since 1996.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

The comments made about colc on Retrorides were bizarre and foolish, but realistically every site has its good and not so good attributes and that includes Retrorides, PistonHeads or for that matter, Autoshite, which can be a little sanctimonious at times.

[dollywobbler]

The comments made about colc on Retrorides were bizarre and foolish, but realistically every site has its good and not so good attributes and that includes Retrorides, PistonHeads or for that matter, Autoshite, which can be a little sanctimonious at times.

 

Indeed! I'm sure I'm not the only one who's fed up with the fact that Autoshite seems to be becoming a site dedicated to slagging off another forum.

[messerschmitt owner]

it was plate raped before my wife bought it - its original plate was LNL 250, then she had it when it was an A Plate (number sold by owner previous to her), and now, if it is the same car, it has an age-related number to replace the A plate.

 

I didn't think that once a car has been plate raped that you could change the plate again?, This one hasn't been taxed since 1996.

Before they issued age relATED numbers they handed out a plates. Then they decided the a plates could have age related numbers.

[stuboy]

screw them

[wackywacerwill]

screw them

 

Or velcro GR8 4 NOT PAYING 4 FUEL.

[Guest]

Never understood why some people get so fussed about someone selling a car on for more money. People do it with land/property/antiques all the time and for some reason that's all dead savvy and encouraged, you do it with a car and some people get in a right state about it. Fair enough if there was some kind of deception involved in obtaining the car in the first place (e.g. taking a car for free on the basis that you would restore it, then putting it up for sale that afternoon), but if you've bought a car at a price the seller was happy with, what's the problem? If they wanted more money, they could have asked for it. On the other hand, if someone buys a car for what it is worth and then tries to put it back up for sale at double that, chances are no one is going to buy it anyway! So don't worry too much.

 

Put it another way - I won my Laurel on eBay for less than its true value because the seller put it up for sale at a strange time of year and I was the only bidder. If I was to sell it (doubtful), would I put it up for that price? Of course I wouldn't - I'd sell it at what I feel it was worth, which would probably be about a grand more. As well as bad luck on the auctions, some cars are cheap by circumstance - seller wanting rid of it, needing space, money, etc. It's not the car's fault and it shouldn't be resigned to being only worth what it was last sold for, just because the guy selling it was desperate to pay his rent that week. Not to mention that some people just aren't very good at presenting an advert - look at "The Doctor", pretty much all he appears to do is buy an already nice car, give it an extensive valet and put it straight back up for sale with better quality advert/photos. I'm sure he makes money off it and fair play to him.

 

As for the RR For Sale section - it has its faults, but I reckon it is pretty good value overall, I've never felt the need to ask for a refund yet.

[retro80sboy]

If im selling a car ill always try and make a profit on it - it makes up for the ones I end up losing money on!