Buying cars privately (or not!)
04 August 2005, 09:03 PM
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Buying cars privately (or not!)
Id forgotton how much fun it was...
Phoned up about a car (Focus) for my wife on Tuesday night from the Autotrader, car sounded good, and the guy sounded decent... So arranged to go through to see it tonight...
Got to his house and noone in, so phoned him and got:
"oh sorry, thought Id text you, its sold" aaarrghhh!!
£40 HPI, £10 fuel, and 2 hours of our time down the pan...
Complete *steward !!
This was the car, feel free to ring him to ask if its still for sale at about 3am
http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www...ch_full=SEARCH
Phoned up about a car (Focus) for my wife on Tuesday night from the Autotrader, car sounded good, and the guy sounded decent... So arranged to go through to see it tonight...
Got to his house and noone in, so phoned him and got:
"oh sorry, thought Id text you, its sold" aaarrghhh!!
£40 HPI, £10 fuel, and 2 hours of our time down the pan...
Complete *steward !!
This was the car, feel free to ring him to ask if its still for sale at about 3am
http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www...ch_full=SEARCH
04 August 2005, 09:11 PM
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Exactly the same thing happened to me the other week, the bloke selling said to get there in half an hour which I did only to be told when I got there that he'd just sold it 
Then a couple of weeks ago we made a round trip of 100 miles to see a T reg with aircon that turned out to be a P reg without aircon and I've lost count of all the cars that have been in 'excellent condition' that have actually turned out to be a pile of poo 
Then a couple of weeks ago we made a round trip of 100 miles to see a T reg with aircon that turned out to be a P reg without aircon and I've lost count of all the cars that have been in 'excellent condition' that have actually turned out to be a pile of poo
04 August 2005, 09:15 PM
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same thing happened to me last year drove 60 miles to see an escort cab got all the way there gave, him a ring to find the exact address only for him to answer and tell me he sold it not as much fun as trying to sell my scoob though get some right freaks/timewasters/canvessers ringing up
not as much fun as trying to sell my scoob though get some right freaks/timewasters/canvessers ringing up
04 August 2005, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by scoobychick
I've lost count of all the cars that have been in 'excellent condition' that have actually turned out to be a pile of poo
My wife wouldnt let me stuff obscenities through his letter box though!
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04 August 2005, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Christ
This was the car, feel free to ring him to ask if its still for sale at about 3am
http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www...ch_full=SEARCH
http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www...ch_full=SEARCH
At < 2 cents a minute to the UK, it will be well worth it.
04 August 2005, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Christ
Id forgotton how much fun it was...
Phoned up about a car (Focus) for my wife on Tuesday night from the Autotrader, car sounded good, and the guy sounded decent... So arranged to go through to see it tonight...
Got to his house and noone in, so phoned him and got:
"oh sorry, thought Id text you, its sold" aaarrghhh!!
£40 HPI, £10 fuel, and 2 hours of our time down the pan...
Complete *steward !!
This was the car, feel free to ring him to ask if its still for sale at about 3am
http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www...ch_full=SEARCH
Phoned up about a car (Focus) for my wife on Tuesday night from the Autotrader, car sounded good, and the guy sounded decent... So arranged to go through to see it tonight...
Got to his house and noone in, so phoned him and got:
"oh sorry, thought Id text you, its sold" aaarrghhh!!
£40 HPI, £10 fuel, and 2 hours of our time down the pan...
Complete *steward !!
This was the car, feel free to ring him to ask if its still for sale at about 3am
http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www...ch_full=SEARCH
04 August 2005, 10:35 PM
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05 August 2005, 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Christ
£40 HPI, £10 fuel, and 2 hours of our time down the pan...
06 August 2005, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by mad_dr
Probably best that next time you HPI it AFTER you've decided you want to buy it. It might mean you can't buy it at the first viewing, but that's probably sensible anyway. Besides - in this case, 2 trips instead of one would have probably been worthwhile given that it only cost £10 in fuel...
Must keep looking for more Focii....
06 August 2005, 05:53 PM
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We've just got back from spending the entire day looking at cars (again!) and it was a complete waste of time and money We've seen one with 100k miles on the clock not the 70k I was told on the phone this morning, one that seemed to have been resprayed with blue metallic mastic, one that was 2k more than the advertised price and walked away from countless others that were really dodgy looking. We've covered an area from Bradford to Dewsbury to Rochdale, then back up to Burnley, Earby, Ilkley and finally home near Skipton 
My other half has collapsed knackered on the sofa and I feel like a bag of sh1te and am still car-less. The whole day was a complete waste because stupid fookin people can't be honest on the phone Oh and one car I rang up this morning had about 80k miles on the clock which in fact turned out to be 145k
I hate looking for cars
We've seen one with 100k miles on the clock not the 70k I was told on the phone this morning, one that seemed to have been resprayed with blue metallic mastic, one that was 2k more than the advertised price and walked away from countless others that were really dodgy looking. We've covered an area from Bradford to Dewsbury to Rochdale, then back up to Burnley, Earby, Ilkley and finally home near Skipton My other half has collapsed knackered on the sofa and I feel like a bag of sh1te and am still car-less. The whole day was a complete waste because stupid fookin people can't be honest on the phone Oh and one car I rang up this morning had about 80k miles on the clock which in fact turned out to be 145k I hate looking for cars
06 August 2005, 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by scoobychick
We've just got back from spending the entire day looking at cars (again!) and it was a complete waste of time and money We've seen one with 100k miles on the clock not the 70k I was told on the phone this morning, one that seemed to have been resprayed with blue metallic mastic, one that was 2k more than the advertised price and walked away from countless others that were really dodgy looking. We've covered an area from Bradford to Dewsbury to Rochdale, then back up to Burnley, Earby, Ilkley and finally home near Skipton My other half has collapsed knackered on the sofa and I feel like a bag of sh1te and am still car-less. The whole day was a complete waste because stupid fookin people can't be honest on the phone Oh and one car I rang up this morning had about 80k miles on the clock which in fact turned out to be 145k
I hate looking for cars
We've seen one with 100k miles on the clock not the 70k I was told on the phone this morning, one that seemed to have been resprayed with blue metallic mastic, one that was 2k more than the advertised price and walked away from countless others that were really dodgy looking. We've covered an area from Bradford to Dewsbury to Rochdale, then back up to Burnley, Earby, Ilkley and finally home near Skipton My other half has collapsed knackered on the sofa and I feel like a bag of sh1te and am still car-less. The whole day was a complete waste because stupid fookin people can't be honest on the phone Oh and one car I rang up this morning had about 80k miles on the clock which in fact turned out to be 145k I hate looking for cars
07 August 2005, 04:35 PM
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1st choice is a Disco, 2nd choice is a Focus and the rubbish cars have all been Discos
We made the mistake of going to Motorpoint to look at a Focus today. I came out feeling like I'd just been run over by a steam roller after listening to the spiel of the salesman
We made the mistake of going to Motorpoint to look at a Focus today. I came out feeling like I'd just been run over by a steam roller after listening to the spiel of the salesman
08 August 2005, 08:54 AM
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The thing is they have a nice one year old Focus Zetec which will do me just fine and is a good price but I won't buy it because I don't want the salesman to earn anything out of me
Sorry Chris for hijacking your thread
Sorry Chris for hijacking your thread
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Good call scoobychick 
I did buy from there, and had huge issues with the car after purchase.
No second set of keys, locking wheel nuts drilled off, some paint issues, turned out the car was an import when they said it was not...no leather, no brake pad warnings lights (found the hard way), then the engine blew. Ended up sueing them....won, but it took time
I did buy from there, and had huge issues with the car after purchase.No second set of keys, locking wheel nuts drilled off, some paint issues, turned out the car was an import when they said it was not...no leather, no brake pad warnings lights (found the hard way), then the engine blew. Ended up sueing them....won, but it took time
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Bloody hell 
Looks like I had a lucky escape then. They were very, very vague on the UK/import thing too and tried to stitch me up with a load of stuff I didn't need like new number plates, valet, breakdown cover etc etc. All they seemed interested in was getting a £300 deposit out of me for a car I hadn't even seen, they were very, very pushy and got my back right up.
Looks like I had a lucky escape then. They were very, very vague on the UK/import thing too and tried to stitch me up with a load of stuff I didn't need like new number plates, valet, breakdown cover etc etc. All they seemed interested in was getting a £300 deposit out of me for a car I hadn't even seen, they were very, very pushy and got my back right up.
08 August 2005, 10:51 AM
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LOL.... the only car I got to to find it had been sold was in fact the subaru that I bought in the end...lol
agreed friday I'll travel down at 10:30am on the saturday for the car.... got there on time rang when I was on the guys street and he said he sold it half hour ago to be fair he had emailed me to let me know someone was veiwing it before me but I didnt have access to works email after I left at 5pm.... So Id drove all the way down to see it and couldnt then they contacted me 2 weeks later and said he still had it, the guy who originally bought it only put a deposit down and aparently lost him job so couldnt afford the car so i went and fetched it there and then....
although Ive seen many dogs avertised, usually I get a feel for how someone sounds on the phone, you can usually tell if they dont sound like theyre honest people
agreed friday I'll travel down at 10:30am on the saturday for the car.... got there on time rang when I was on the guys street and he said he sold it half hour ago
to be fair he had emailed me to let me know someone was veiwing it before me but I didnt have access to works email after I left at 5pm.... So Id drove all the way down to see it and couldnt then they contacted me 2 weeks later and said he still had it, the guy who originally bought it only put a deposit down and aparently lost him job so couldnt afford the car so i went and fetched it there and then.... although Ive seen many dogs avertised, usually I get a feel for how someone sounds on the phone, you can usually tell if they dont sound like theyre honest people
08 August 2005, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by scoobychick
Sorry Chris for hijacking your thread
No worries
, your in a similar part of the world to me, so let me know if you see any good £5k focii..... Chris
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Originally Posted by Patt@firstime
Linky no worky for phone number
36500 miles, taxed & test April 2006, FSH, air con, CD, PAS, EW, EM, CL, alloys, 4 new tyres, heated front screen, excellent condition. £5,250.
Tel: 0191 3839195 or 07941 546615
Distance: 46 miles
Price: £5,250