URGENT - Bought a car on ebay but something amiss?

vaio

sassy-one wrote: »

I would not buy a car off eBay TO THE VALUE of £4000 odd.

It it was a few hundred, even a grand maybe but not £4000 as I would want to go to a trader where by I had some sort of come back, even if it was for a week!

I wouldn't buy the car but now that you have brought it, unless you can PROVE and show strong evidence, you made a legal contract to buy and unless you have evidence to prove the seller, be it he is a trader or private seller, to have written something in his listing wrong, you must carry the contract through.

Also, I have read the listing and to be fair to the seller, they did CLEARLY state they would need a deposit, which you should have sorted prior to bidding - not having ago mate but at the end of the day, you are saying about all these faults now and not giving this guy a chance, you are just going along with gut feeling when in sense you should have thought about all this before clicking 'Place your bid'

Our last four cars have come off ebay (£4k and £7.5k from hundreds of miles away and £1.4k & £1.5k from less than 50 miles away) all were good deals and turned out well.

But, I treat it like any other car seller but with the advantage the the price has already been agreed, ask any questions, get more pictures if you want etc etc before bidding and would not have hesitated to walk away if the car had not been as described or had I had any concerns about the ownership of the car.

barnabee

Also note that the car currently has no road tax. Are you planning to take it home on a trailer?

sassy_one

Also, just looking at the listing again it states that it has just had a new exhaust fitted and reads the follwoing:

THE MAZDA 6 HAS JUST HAD COMPLETE EXHAUST AND MANIFOLD WHICH HAS JUST COSTED UNDER £4000.00

Do exhausts on these makes/models of car really cost £4000.00?? Sh*t
Think that would put me off before I even got started!!!!!!

Kimberley

Strider590 wrote: »

It worries me that people slate Ebay and Gumtree etc etc etc..... It's no more risky than replying to an ad in the Autotrader or local rag.

People slate them because quite a few scams are on there. Just look at the Gumtree pet section and you will see. These sort of free ads attract scammers because there are so many gullible people out there. I agree Ebay is less risky but you still get scammers on there. Have you not read or heard about those who buy a "car" from a free ad and then go to pick the car up with the cash and they then get beaten up and robbed off the money?

sassy_one

barnabee wrote: »

Also note that the car currently has no road tax. Are you planning to take it home on a trailer?

Perhaps because the seller is really a trader he will be so kind to throw in 12 months TAX, at cost of course

sassy_one

Kimberley wrote: »

People slate them because quite a few scams are on there. Just look at the Gumtree pet section and you will see. These sort of free ads attract scammers because there are so many gullible people out there. I agree Ebay is less risky but you still get scammers on there. Have you not read or heard about those who buy a "car" from a free ad and then go to pick the car up with the cash and they then get beated up and robbed off the money?

Yes I have!
Read something about that a few months ago in the paper.
I wouldn't personally go and meet anyone somewhere to exchange cash, and even if I did I wouldn't take cash, I'd first find out the nearest cash point to my meeting location then go meet the person if they didn't want too/couldn't come to me and after I was happy I'd go to the cash point.

I have used Gumtree a handful of times and really hate it, if you place an ad you get loads of spam and scams which are not funny any more, they bore me.

And buying something on there, someone never gets back to you even if it's sold and your left waiting!

DCFC79

Strider590 wrote: »

It worries me that people slate Ebay and Gumtree etc etc etc..... It's no more risky than replying to an ad in the Autotrader or local rag.

Your effectively saying "use the papers or dealerships and you can be confident of a good buy", encouraging people to take their brains out and walk blindly into buying a car via methods widely and publicly known to rip people off, more than any online method has ever done and will ever do.

Your buying a car, be it new or old or from an internet ad or from the local stealership, you have to be extremely f*cking careful regardless!!
So many people end up with finance upto the ears on dodgy, unreliable cars...... JUST because they thought "we'll go to the dealership for peace of mind".

Buyer beware!

ive bought a few cars from dealers and not had any problems, id rather buy from a dealer than ebay

sassy_one

vaio wrote: »

Our last four cars have come off ebay (£4k and £7.5k from hundreds of miles away and £1.4k & £1.5k from less than 50 miles away) all were good deals and turned out well.

But, I treat it like any other car seller but with the advantage the the price has already been agreed, ask any questions, get more pictures if you want etc etc before bidding and would not have hesitated to walk away if the car had not been as described or had I had any concerns about the ownership of the car.

I am not coating everyone with the same brush vaio

But I hate buying a new car as I have been fooled so many times.

When you take a car for a test drive, all can seem lovely but the thing is many faults will not incur until the engine has fully warmed but.

For example, automatics sometimes can be really knackered and when cold will drive and pull through all gears smooth, however once warm you can get long delays on gear change and the pull can reduce, A LOT!

My Mondeo I have now and have had for the past 4 years now I brought privately, and I'm not about to tell anyone how much I paid But I had it for a bargain price and the seller was VERY truthful, he had lost his licence due to speeding hence the sale.
It has never let me down and has always started on the key, even in the poor cold weather earlier this year!

However I have brought cars that appeared great on test driving, but I have paid £££ for and had to take to the scrape yard as they were fu*ked!
I have taken a total of 4 cars to the scrape yard in the past two years due to this reason, hence why I have spent so much on my car as I know it inside out.

DCFC79

sassy-one wrote: »

Also, just looking at the listing again it states that it has just had a new exhaust fitted and reads the follwoing:

THE MAZDA 6 HAS JUST HAD COMPLETE EXHAUST AND MANIFOLD WHICH HAS JUST COSTED UNDER £4000.00

Do exhausts on these makes/models of car really cost £4000.00?? Sh*t
Think that would put me off before I even got started!!!!!!

unless the seller added and extra 0

sassy_one

DCFC79 wrote: »

unless the seller added and extra 0

I certainly hope he did or that the exhuast is made from pure gold

My twin exhaust is a lifetime exhuast stainless steel, and the weight of it :eek:
It goes right back to the engine and is solid - it will not rust, dent or ever need replacing again.
The total cost of it was £1400 including VAT and fitting.
Money well worth spent, I think anyway