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lol he probably has a few RHI boilers so i used to money for nothing
Ive had years and years of good sales, never a problem... Until a few months ago... A well known young young car buyer/seller through Facebook and jon44, does a bit of dealing in silvias and the likes.. Id bought parts off him and chatted away so was friendly enough with him, premier edition type r civic running hondata etc, High miles but cheap for the spec, deal was done, wanted me to do a 50 mile drive to collect the deposit from him lol eventually gor a bank transfer and he was due to collect on Tuesday, no word and on Wednesday his bird rang to say insurance was too dear so she would call the next day with her granda as he had trade, fast forward to the day after they bought it and I got a message from him saying the 2 front mud gaurds were missing and there was a wire hanging down underneath(lambda plug as it wasnt needed with ecu), all stuff he should have noticed when buying, anyway I said whats your point and he said nothing im just saying...next thing him and a few mates landed to my door at 10pm looking their money back over fcking splash gaurds on a 12 year old civic lol I agreed to fix it and when I thought about it I realised holdvon, if theyll land to my house over splash gaurds what will they do over a gearbox etc, so I told them the next day ill just take the car back, handed them the cash and they said well its for the best it happened now and not a few months down the line when something big has went wrong.. Lol fack aff! Im sure a good few on here would know him. It was my call to Give the money back as I couldnt be bothered with people like that, only thing that annoyed me was he buys and sells and knows rightly it was sold as seen.
only people that do it every day will understand the struggle.Im not even going to start.... Although when I meet an honest buyer who has maners and doesnt speak to you like dirt its refreshing
Going to be an interesting thread
Not car related but we had a guy in yesterday I couldn't quite believe.
Sure no problem, no product, no receipt and no idea. Are you sure you didn't have 2 pairs? Sure take £130 to be safe.
Standard Mid Ulster acceptance. You are now mates. Not unusual to have a yellow wall up this way. When I had the filling station it had a separate purpose built loo (fully plumbed unisex) outside. Many times I saw men pish against the wall of it.Had an m3 for sale and bunch of lads from Draperstown came up to see it, while they looked over the car, one of them proceeded to walk over to the side of my house and took a pish against the wall....
Not car related but we had a guy in yesterday I couldn't quite believe.
"Hi I bought a pair of snickers trousers and they shrunk in the wash. I rang snickers uk and they said they would refund them so I'm here to collect the £65."
"Ok sir lets see them"
"Sure I threw them out as they didn't fit anymore."
"ok sir can I see your receipt?"
"No I lost it. Not sure I definitely bought them here but your a snickers retailer so I want my £65".
Sure no problem, no product, no receipt and no idea. Are you sure you didn't have 2 pairs? Sure take £130 to be safe.
When I was breaking the old 182 a guy had come out to lift the engine and the throttle bodies, had them all ready to collect and sitting in the garage for him. Cracked open the door and he proceeded to point things out in the garage he wanted to buy, felt like supermarket sweep. He picked up all sorts of random parts, tools and a second engine and I totalled it up in my head and out came the notes.. Suited me fine!
Selling the Z the first time the guy who bought it was a body builder, got out and was MASSIVE, then his mate gets out of the car from presumably the back seat. He made the other guy look tiny and when a massive wad of 10s adding up to 12k were taken out for me to count I swiftly texted @Boydie to pop round incase my arse was turned into a yawning hippo. Lads ended up being dead on, but I didn't fancy that one all on my todd.
Clio 197 was easily the best sale, chatted to the guy over the phone. Picked him up for the airport, drove to my house while his Aston Martin mechanic went over the car and talked to me about the work done/spec. 10mins later money in my account and off they went to the ferry
Now the bmw on the other hand would put me off selling cars, 2 boys from birmingham on at me for ages about the car and no time ever suited them to get over. Finally a Friday came round where I was meant to be heading down south for a wedding but I stayed around and picked them up from a flight which was 4 hours late. They went over the car with everything bar an X-ray machine to make sure it was ok, pointing out every flaw in the car. Everything I'd already mentioned over the phone and in photos anyway. Went through every receipt and invoice in my kitchen when his mate decides to roll himself a fat one and get loose, now wants to talk about how much I earn and how much my house is worth. Tells me i'll take an offer 3k less than I was asking and after laughing in their face I say it's time to call them a taxi i've to get on the road to Dublin. Their reply was no... we aren't leaving. Couldn't get them out of the house for love nor money and now I was starting to lose the rag with them. @ChrisL was text to get round asap and we hear him coming round the corner in the jag like Ken block is filming a new gymkhana video outside. A few minutes later and a couple of phonecalls turns out he decided to take it, payment via 2 different bank transfers and some cash. Couldn't have been a more awkward sale
When I was breaking the old 182 a guy had come out to lift the engine and the throttle bodies, had them all ready to collect and sitting in the garage for him. Cracked open the door and he proceeded to point things out in the garage he wanted to buy, felt like supermarket sweep. He picked up all sorts of random parts, tools and a second engine and I totalled it up in my head and out came the notes.. Suited me fine!
Selling the Z the first time the guy who bought it was a body builder, got out and was MASSIVE, then his mate gets out of the car from presumably the back seat. He made the other guy look tiny and when a massive wad of 10s adding up to 12k were taken out for me to count I swiftly texted @Boydie to pop round incase my arse was turned into a yawning hippo. Lads ended up being dead on, but I didn't fancy that one all on my todd.
Clio 197 was easily the best sale, chatted to the guy over the phone. Picked him up for the airport, drove to my house while his Aston Martin mechanic went over the car and talked to me about the work done/spec. 10mins later money in my account and off they went to the ferry
Now the bmw on the other hand would put me off selling cars, 2 boys from birmingham on at me for ages about the car and no time ever suited them to get over. Finally a Friday came round where I was meant to be heading down south for a wedding but I stayed around and picked them up from a flight which was 4 hours late. They went over the car with everything bar an X-ray machine to make sure it was ok, pointing out every flaw in the car. Everything I'd already mentioned over the phone and in photos anyway. Went through every receipt and invoice in my kitchen when his mate decides to roll himself a fat one and get loose, now wants to talk about how much I earn and how much my house is worth. Tells me i'll take an offer 3k less than I was asking and after laughing in their face I say it's time to call them a taxi i've to get on the road to Dublin. Their reply was no... we aren't leaving. Couldn't get them out of the house for love nor money and now I was starting to lose the rag with them. @ChrisL was text to get round asap and we hear him coming round the corner in the jag like Ken block is filming a new gymkhana video outside. A few minutes later and a couple of phonecalls turns out he decided to take it, payment via 2 different bank transfers and some cash. Couldn't have been a more awkward sale
That birthday story is amazing !
My friends Mk4 golf wouldn't start, he arranged for trainers to lift it.
I offered him £200, jumped it, took it home, cleaned it and sold it for £1200.
Good jab!
Had one years ago, came looked at the car agreed price to be collected next day, next day i'm counting the cash and as I get to 12 grand he says it's a bit short it's all I could get , 1500 short is more than a bit, handed it back and said all the best.
Bloody immigrants coming here and buying our stuff.Best one was when I was selling my old KTM supermoto road bike. Quite a desirable model so had calls and texts from all over the UK about it which as per went nowhere. Answered the phone one night to a child's voice asking where I was. Thinking it was a young fella with wishful/hopeful thinking or a prank, I humoured him and said Waringstown. He replied I'm coming up now. Thought nothing more until an hour later got phonecall from same child's voice saying he was in Waringstown looking directions to my house. Long story short, the 10 year old was a translator for his Latvian dad who couldn't speak a word of English, so dealt and haggled though the young fella and they took the bike away that same night. Treat everyone on the other end of the phone as a potential buyer is the moral here!
Lol he actually exported the bike back to Latvia to sell on there. Know a few biker mates who have had bikes bought off them to be exported to eastern Europe. Must be hard to get or something over there.Bloody immigrants coming here and buying our stuff.