Private sale now buyer threatening legal action

Judas

The position is you as part of the contract agreed to provide the receipt. You have failed to do this. I don't think keeping it for just 2 weeks was reasonable as he could have been busy/on holiday etc.

Now legally this entitles him to compensation for his losses as a result of the breach. Now it all depends on how he has lost £200. If he bought the sofa at a bargain price to sell on and can show without the receipt it is devalued by £200 he may have a case.

Gut is that he is a trader or the sofa is more valuable than you think and it was bought to sell on and only once he sold it did he need the receipt for the buyer.

undaunted

I agree that you put in writing recepit to be provided - not if found, not time limited etc - & that was probably a mistake on your part but the buyer nevertheless seems to have been intending trying it on from the start to me. I would therefore stand my ground and let him go to court if he wants to. I doubt he'll get £200 compensation even if he were "lucky enough" to win

lincroft1710

I'd be inclined to ask him how he values receipt at £200 because if it went to court that is what he would have to prove.

poppy_f1

im wondering if he wants the recipet to do some kind of insurance scam

Foggster

I am really trying hard to understand why someone would need the receipt. I have bought and sold 2nd hand furniture over the years and I have never asked for or been asked for a receipt from the original purchase. Someone help me out here.

OP - did you question why he needed the receipt at the time of sale? Did you not think it odd? Hindsight is a wonderful thing but had someone asked me to write down that I would provide a receipt when I eventually found it (which I think is an odd request) I would never have then thrown it out when it had been kept for over a year and a buyer had specifically asked for it, regardless of how many calls I had to make. Why didnt you post it?

All sounds a bit odd to me.

pimento

Could the shop you originally bought the sofa from provide you with a copy 'for insurance purposes'?

blue_monkey_2

What was the sofa? Was it expensive? I am going for the Insurance scam also!! He is gong to say he bought it 2 years ago and paid x for it so he can get a new one off his Insurance Company.

Let him tell the judge what he wants it for.

mountainofdebt

poppy_f1 wrote: »

im wondering if he wants the recipet to do some kind of insurance scam

I thought exactly the same even before I read your comment poppy

Zandoni

I'd call his bluff.

Personally I wouldn't want someone having the receipt, it carries some of your personal details.

gwapenut

Sounds like he's trying to pull some kind of tax fraud. Claim at as an expense against letting out a house, or something.