tonybooth

What a to55er - Buys my car then stops the cheque. When I call to ask why he give me a pathetic excuse.

This is the 3rd person in a week to let me down and quite frankly it is beginning to pi55 me right orf [sp]

Cheers [Not]

TONY

Turbohot

So,he has taken the car and cheque didnt clear?

jods

Hope you didn't hand the keys over yet !!

I hear that there are foreign bankers drafts out there that appear to clear your account so you hand over keys, days / weeks later the foreign issuing bank flags the draft as stolen so refuses payment ??

tonybooth

No I still have the motor but I am still furious. You know what its like when you think the deal is done and you start looking at your 'next' car for it all to come to nothing.

Some people..........

TONY

Lee247

Have they got nowt better to do.

Pavlo

I was talking in the office about this, how to take payment for a car.

We came up with the best surefire way of doing it, was to go to the bank with the buyer and sort the money there by either cash (counted and checked by the bank) or a CHAPS (telex) transfer, which unlike a BACS transfer cannot be stopped or returned.

Paul

tonybooth

Agreed and tis what I normally do for larger transactions but it was a Saturday afternoon.

TONY

Mark Miwurdz

Why would you be any less stringent for £20K? It's a sizeable amount of money in anyone's language.

dba

I always take a cash deposit,plus the cheque,at least you get something for your wasted time

wwp8

and i bet it must have cost ya a fair bit through bank charges??

if they write a cheque is it possible to ask them to withdraw the cash?