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Advice on selling car

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  • Inactive
    Inactive Posts: 14,509 Forumite
    actionman wrote: »
    They are wear and tear cos someone who used to deal in the trade has seen them and described them as such. I would take more note of a person like that than you.



    Well bully for you, good luck with your sale.:rolleyes:
  • Inactive

    Can't you read. NO MORE POSTS.Ive reported you and told them Ive requested no more of your halfwit posts. Please go away. I have more important things to do like selling my car!!!!!!!!!
    If you find something irritating in my post or that you disagree with,then please don't jump on me ,just please ignore my post.I have come to the site for useful information and not to argue. thanks.
  • Inactive
    Inactive Posts: 14,509 Forumite
    actionman wrote: »
    Inactive

    Can't you read. NO MORE POSTS.Ive reported you and told them Ive requested no more of your halfwit posts. Please go away. I have more important things to do like selling my car!!!!!!!!!

    Thank you, that was very charitable of you.

    I can read, but because you started the thread, sadly that fact alone doesn't give you ownership of the thread.


    I thought that you had accepted an offer on your car?.:rolleyes: .
  • LandyAndy
    LandyAndy Posts: 26,377 Forumite
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    actionman wrote: »
    Inactive

    Can't you read. NO MORE POSTS.Ive reported you and told them Ive requested no more of your halfwit posts. Please go away. I have more important things to do like selling my car!!!!!!!!!

    Shame someone offered you 3750.

    You bought a brand new car you don't appear to have needed and drove it about 10 miles a week for 10 months.

    You chose a fairly unpleasant car that you should have known would depreciate heavily in the first year and seem surprised to have lost £40 per week.

    And you call someone else a halfwit:confused: :rotfl:
  • LandyAndy
    LandyAndy Posts: 26,377 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    And you appear to have ignored the good advice you where given in your own thread here http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=602153 about the depreciation perils of buying new.

    Quarterwit anyone?

    Go on report me.
  • lincroft1710
    lincroft1710 Posts: 19,332 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    What Car valuation says £3795 for a 57 plate Picanto GS private sale, so £3750 seems OK. First year depreciation is pretty horrific - some models lose as much as 50% of their value in those 12 short months. Car sales are well down, so the fact you've got a buyer is quite good in itself.
    If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales
  • allydowd
    allydowd Posts: 4,965 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Uniform Washer Name Dropper
    I sold my car on eBay.

    Whatever you do make sure YOU send off the V5C form when the car is sold. Don't trust the buyer to do it. You don't want someone else's speeding fines.
    Debt-free day: 8th May 2015 "Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck," Dalai Llama
  • Tiddlywinks
    Tiddlywinks Posts: 5,777 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Actionman - why the attitude? You came here (a public forum) asking for advice and opinion and that is what you received.

    Don't take things so personally - I have re-read all of the posts that you found objectionable and cannot understand your problem:confused: .

    You bought a relatively unpopular make and model of car and are now suffering as a result. The vast majority of cars depreciate very heavily in the first year, this is something you should have researched BEFORE buying.

    Take it on the chin and move on.... Oh, and I suggest that you don't seek opinion if you aren't prepared for advice you make not like.
    :hello:
  • Hintza
    Hintza Posts: 19,420 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Away and boil your head!

    In these times if you get an offer close to what it books at you should probably take it. What cars are advertised for often bear no relation to what they sell for.

    You gave limited information so I had to make an assumption.

    If you have buyers that have noted the scratches then if they feel it knocks a couple of hundred quid off the price that is their perogative, you telling them it is fair wear and tear means nothing to them.

    Report me too if you like :D
  • i think someone is bored and trying to wind folk up.

    paint damage as fair wear and tear? try telling that to a hire company.:rotfl:
    ...work permit granted!
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