Stories of strange selling experiences
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Shore said:
Mine was a guy who wanted to purchase a fiat Punto mk1 off of me. Had the car advertised at £350 and it had a full years MOT. Get a call and the man comes over later that day. He pays me the £350 in £1 coins and leaves a happy man. Never really been paid in coins before for a car but at least it sold.
Worked in an amusement arcade I reckon.
Alex_225 said:
There are some truly bizarre stories on here.
I've never really had any overly strange incidents when selling a car. Although I recall selling my first Clio 172 to a chap who was a couple of hours drive away. He came and looked at the car, agreed it was mint (2 years old/15k on the clock) and we agreed a price. Following weekend he came and picked it up.
It had a set of aftermarket wheels but included in the price were the OEM ones which he readily took as well.
A bout a month later I had a missed cal from the guy and I text him asking if he was alright. I get, "No, these original wheels don't fit on the car!".
I replied that they fitted the car perfectly well as it came with them attached. Perhaps he should check that the spigot rings from the after market wheels aren't still on the hub. Surprisingly he went quiet, so I'll only assume he fitted the. The guy was a bit of a t*t anyway.
I've had that plenty of times before - sellers who go apesI've never really had any overly strange incidents when selling a car. Although I recall selling my first Clio 172 to a chap who was a couple of hours drive away. He came and looked at the car, agreed it was mint (2 years old/15k on the clock) and we agreed a price. Following weekend he came and picked it up.
It had a set of aftermarket wheels but included in the price were the OEM ones which he readily took as well.
A bout a month later I had a missed cal from the guy and I text him asking if he was alright. I get, "No, these original wheels don't fit on the car!".
I replied that they fitted the car perfectly well as it came with them attached. Perhaps he should check that the spigot rings from the after market wheels aren't still on the hub. Surprisingly he went quiet, so I'll only assume he fitted the. The guy was a bit of a t*t anyway.
t about something they're doing wrong (straight to 'rage'), but it usually continues on."Passenger window is ******d"
"Have you made sure the button isn't pressed on the driver's door" (the isolation switch)
then it'll be "I thought there were two keys [rage][ripped off][etc]", then they realise it's in with the documents (where they put it when you handed it to them).
Sometimes the more you answer, the more they'll keep coming back to you. I think I've had buyers before now that had no friends and were trying to befriend me through whining and complaining. Just like a crazy ex, you can only do so much before you just have to ignore them.
Some people will want a refund on something that was free, just the way nature made them.
Two recent occasions.
I had a mk4 1.4 petrol golf for sale with 12 months MOT. Step brother wanted rid as he had a new car and this was taking space, I could have a cut if I sold it. Typically, he didn't lift a finger in the selling process and left it to me. I put it up for sale and inundated with messages straight away.
One buyer drops me a message at 11pm on a Friday night.
buyer: Can you drive it to me? (lives about 20 miles away, in a rough part of South Wales)
me: when now?
buyer: Yeah I'll give you asking price in cash
me: It's 11pm on a Friday night. Come get it tomorrow.
Low and behold he turned up the following day, viewed it and bought it.
I had a mk4 1.4 petrol golf for sale with 12 months MOT. Step brother wanted rid as he had a new car and this was taking space, I could have a cut if I sold it. Typically, he didn't lift a finger in the selling process and left it to me. I put it up for sale and inundated with messages straight away.
One buyer drops me a message at 11pm on a Friday night.
buyer: Can you drive it to me? (lives about 20 miles away, in a rough part of South Wales)
me: when now?
buyer: Yeah I'll give you asking price in cash
me: It's 11pm on a Friday night. Come get it tomorrow.
Low and behold he turned up the following day, viewed it and bought it.
I sold an old rover 400 diesel, good car never let me down etc,had it 4 years and 80.000 miles in my hands, sold with 120k
it went to a guy on ebay who came from scotland to yorkshire on the train, picked him up at station, went to bank so he could transfer money into my account,
he gave me a lift home,on his way to the A1,very happy kept saying how much it would cost back home so worth the trip etc,
2 months later when it was about minus 15c, he messages me to say it needed new glowplugs, and can I send the money to cover it, on a £600 car?
it went to a guy on ebay who came from scotland to yorkshire on the train, picked him up at station, went to bank so he could transfer money into my account,
he gave me a lift home,on his way to the A1,very happy kept saying how much it would cost back home so worth the trip etc,
2 months later when it was about minus 15c, he messages me to say it needed new glowplugs, and can I send the money to cover it, on a £600 car?
I think my story is one of the strangest, see http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=163...
I work for a funeral director and a couple of years ago we decided to part company with our ageing fleet of Daimler DS420s via eBay...
Hearse 1: Decent car, only used occasionally. A bloke from Milan bought it, paid a deposit, flew to Birmingham on Good Friday and took a taxi up here to Cumbria. By that I mean he literally walked out of the terminal and took the first one off the rank. Turned up with his sister at my bosses house in a battered taxi driven by a young Asian guy who clearly thought all his birthdays had come at once. Looked round the car, paid the asking price and drove it straight back to Italy - the car did more miles in those 3 days than it had in the last 2 years. A lovely chap who had suffered a serious garage fire that wrote his entire fleet off.
Hearse 2: Bit of a basket case which hadn't been used for some considerable time. Two blokes arrived in a Citroen C1, one walked around it and asked whereabouts the coffin went. They paid up, went to the Post Office to tax it and set off to drive it to Bolton (bearing in mind it had only been driven to the MOT centre and back for about the last 3 years). Never heard of it again until it turned up online looking like this...
Limo 1: A man from Paraguay paid the full asking price for this one and then sent a lorry with a shipping container for it about six months later. It was such a tight fit that we had to get our skinniest bloke to drive it in, climb out of the window and slide down the bonnet.
Limo 2: By far the best of the bunch but by pure fluke it broke down on its new owners after they had got about ten miles away. Recovered back to us, fixed, and delivered to them the following week.
The boss once bought a Volvo Hearse unseen and arranged to meet the trader (who we have dealt with before) at a service station half way between us. Trader said to meet us right at the back of the car park out of the way. He turned up and reversed the car right up to the grass bank, briefly showed us round it, money changed hands etc. I drove it home and realised after a short distance that the back window seemed very dirty. The boss, who was following, had noticed the same thing. It turned out it was a sheet of tatty old perspex. New pane of glass cost £850 + fitting and VAT, special order from Volvo in Sweden. The piss taking we got when we explained this the following day was quite substantial.
Mind you, I've often wondered how it was broken...
Hearse 1: Decent car, only used occasionally. A bloke from Milan bought it, paid a deposit, flew to Birmingham on Good Friday and took a taxi up here to Cumbria. By that I mean he literally walked out of the terminal and took the first one off the rank. Turned up with his sister at my bosses house in a battered taxi driven by a young Asian guy who clearly thought all his birthdays had come at once. Looked round the car, paid the asking price and drove it straight back to Italy - the car did more miles in those 3 days than it had in the last 2 years. A lovely chap who had suffered a serious garage fire that wrote his entire fleet off.
Hearse 2: Bit of a basket case which hadn't been used for some considerable time. Two blokes arrived in a Citroen C1, one walked around it and asked whereabouts the coffin went. They paid up, went to the Post Office to tax it and set off to drive it to Bolton (bearing in mind it had only been driven to the MOT centre and back for about the last 3 years). Never heard of it again until it turned up online looking like this...
Limo 1: A man from Paraguay paid the full asking price for this one and then sent a lorry with a shipping container for it about six months later. It was such a tight fit that we had to get our skinniest bloke to drive it in, climb out of the window and slide down the bonnet.
Limo 2: By far the best of the bunch but by pure fluke it broke down on its new owners after they had got about ten miles away. Recovered back to us, fixed, and delivered to them the following week.
The boss once bought a Volvo Hearse unseen and arranged to meet the trader (who we have dealt with before) at a service station half way between us. Trader said to meet us right at the back of the car park out of the way. He turned up and reversed the car right up to the grass bank, briefly showed us round it, money changed hands etc. I drove it home and realised after a short distance that the back window seemed very dirty. The boss, who was following, had noticed the same thing. It turned out it was a sheet of tatty old perspex. New pane of glass cost £850 + fitting and VAT, special order from Volvo in Sweden. The piss taking we got when we explained this the following day was quite substantial.
Mind you, I've often wondered how it was broken...
motoroller said:
I think my story is one of the strangest, see http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=163...
You finally admit it is just a story.motoroller said:
I think my story is one of the strangest, see http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=163...
strangestreɪn(d)ʒ/Submit
adjective
1.
unusual or surprising; difficult to understand or explain.
"children have some strange ideas"
2.
not previously visited, seen, or encountered; unfamiliar or alien.
I'd suggest it's not strange at all - quite common, as people don't have much common sense when dealing with expensive purchases.
cj2013 said:
strange
stre?n(d)?/Submit
adjective
1.
unusual or surprising; difficult to understand or explain.
"children have some strange ideas"
2.
not previously visited, seen, or encountered; unfamiliar or alien.
I'd suggest it's not strange at all - quite common, as people don't have much common sense when dealing with expensive purchases.
It's alien to me at least :P stre?n(d)?/Submit
adjective
1.
unusual or surprising; difficult to understand or explain.
"children have some strange ideas"
2.
not previously visited, seen, or encountered; unfamiliar or alien.
I'd suggest it's not strange at all - quite common, as people don't have much common sense when dealing with expensive purchases.
HaroldBishop said:
There used to be more photos of it online... it looks OK in that one but when you look at it closely it's a bit of a shonky job.
I found some here:http://automotoclassicsale.com/node/27453
Once I sold a 996 - guy flicks through the paperwork whilst sat in the car and agreed to buy. He leaves everything in the car and does an online transfer. Drives it away happy as larry.
However about 2 weeks later he phones me up and says I've stolen the service history book as it was in the paperwork and now not there. Told him he had it when he left my house and it was hence nowhere to be seen.
He started objecting on the phone that I should get a complete service book stamped up again by phoning / visiting these garages around the country. I told him politely to foxtrot Oscar - at which point he called me a con artist!!!
Anyhow a few hours pass and I get a call from his wife apologising for her husband behaviour - she had put the service book into the filing cabinet for safe keeping and hadn't told him. He wasn't man enough to phone me and apologise himself.
Crazy and paranoid people out there who would be far better off buying from a dealer.
However about 2 weeks later he phones me up and says I've stolen the service history book as it was in the paperwork and now not there. Told him he had it when he left my house and it was hence nowhere to be seen.
He started objecting on the phone that I should get a complete service book stamped up again by phoning / visiting these garages around the country. I told him politely to foxtrot Oscar - at which point he called me a con artist!!!
Anyhow a few hours pass and I get a call from his wife apologising for her husband behaviour - she had put the service book into the filing cabinet for safe keeping and hadn't told him. He wasn't man enough to phone me and apologise himself.
Crazy and paranoid people out there who would be far better off buying from a dealer.
ensignia said:
Jimmy Recard said:
*tale of deceit and betrayal*
This has absolutely enraged me.Your brother is a
and so is his girlfriend and her sister.The girlfriend's sister heard it from the girlfriend.
He still drives that car now!
Jimmy Recard said:
I'll be fair to my brother - he didn't make any complaint and has always been very, very grateful about the car. He got the MOT sorted out.
The girlfriend's sister heard it from the girlfriend.
He still drives that car now!
Sounds like a friend I have who, and I'm not making this up, watched a Netflix documentary on the scientific research field I work in and then argued with me about certain things. Apparently 'Netflix subscriber' holds more weight than the job title 'Research And Development Scientist' - he then proceeded to watch another documentary about black holes and claims that everything physicists think is untrue. The girlfriend's sister heard it from the girlfriend.
He still drives that car now!
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