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leethefish
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« on: August 01, 2011, 08:48:52 PM » |
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i have had a shit few months financially..... although this should not really come into it!
my van failed its mot total of £700 to get it through....the van is v reg ldv convoy and i could not see the point in throwing good money after bad
so i scraped and i do mean scraped the money together and went to the auctions and picked up nice 2001 transit van.
now this is the thing was transferring all my kit over and a guy who lives up the road (border line alcoholic) comes up to me and this is the conversation
"nice new van"
"thanks mate"
"selling your old one ?"
"yes"
"how much"
"£600 mot and tax due at end of the month"
"give you £500"
"£550"
"£500 AND I GO AND GET THE CASH NOW"
"go get the cash dude"
now should i have told him about the £700 its going to cost to get mot or ..............
is it his own fault i mean he never even test drive it or asked any questions
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George2Loose
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« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2011, 08:54:56 PM » |
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Think u know you should tell him Lee
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leethefish
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« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2011, 08:55:28 PM » |
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Think u know you should tell him Lee
really? |
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gatso
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« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2011, 08:58:27 PM » |
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pretty shitty tbh
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If you get to the yeasty clunge you've gone too far
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outragous76
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« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2011, 08:59:11 PM » |
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caveat emptor for me - his hard luck
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Solaris
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« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2011, 08:59:24 PM » |
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How would you feel if the shoe was on the other foot etc?
I doubt you'd be sitting there thinking, "should have checked, guess that serves me right".
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leethefish
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« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2011, 09:02:13 PM » |
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How would you feel if the shoe was on the other foot etc?
I doubt you'd be sitting there thinking, "should have checked, guess that serves me right".
i would of test drove it and asked at least some questions |
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gatso
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« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2011, 09:04:16 PM » |
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how would you feel if you took it for a test drive and it seemed fine then you found out that it had just failed an mot even though the guy selling it had told you that was due in a month? clearly trying to deceive and it sucks
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« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2011, 09:06:09 PM » |
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pretty shitty tbh
+1 I especially like the negotiating on ur part. |
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Solaris
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« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2011, 09:06:56 PM » |
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Put it this way, you wouldn't have started a thread if you felt confident that what you had done wasn't in fact wrong.
I'm sure you're a nice person etc, but doing what you did is deceitful and dishonest imo.
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leethefish
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« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2011, 09:13:15 PM » |
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i suck i was going to take it to scrap yard !!
but this guy wanted to give me £500 double what scrap value is !!! guess i just a tosser like Mr hopkin
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« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2011, 09:13:33 PM » |
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i have had a shit few months financially
(border line alcoholic)
These two things are you trying to make small justifications to yourself that your actions are ok. This is a pretty scummy thing to do really. |
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« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2011, 09:19:45 PM » |
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Perfectly fine. The buyer knows a shitty old van isn't sailing thru a mot and so tellin him the mot is due is telling him to expect further costs. If he doesn't want to investigate the extent of those inevitable extra costs that's up to him. Don't know why you should force that info onto him when you're trying to sell your van. Why don't you sit him down and continue to convince him not to buy the van by harping on about the other bad points like the acceleration is crap and the seats smell? Lol. He prob has a mechanic mate who can do the mot for a fraction of the price the garage quoted or maybe he's not planning to mot it. I would tell friends or close neighbours I knew but not a random borderline alcoholic from down the road. Lol at borderline alcoholic. wtf?
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leethefish
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« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2011, 09:20:41 PM » |
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i have had a shit few months financially
(border line alcoholic)
These two things are you trying to make small justifications to yourself that your actions are ok. This is a pretty scummy thing to do really. justifying to myself about being skint....yes border line alcoholic ......just an observation of anyone in the real world he almost certainly wont even bother getting an mot if he does it will be dodgy |
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« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2011, 09:20:53 PM » |
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you did nothing wrong lee, if the guys foolish enough to buy it without a testdrive or looking it over then its sold as seen and far from morally wrong.
but you chose the wrong forum if you wanted your backslapped mate more saints here than the vatican ;-)
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