used car from Private seller

pendulum

"The car is due for a service, I am happy to do the service or you can have £100 off the price and have it done yourself."

Maybe the brakes would have been picked up in the service. Did you do it or did he?

Btw, blanking out all the details in the screenshots was a waste of time. It's easy to search for a line of the description in Google and it comes right up

verityboo

paseodj wrote: »

I bought from a private seller who advertised through a classified ad on Ebay.


Lee AKA Paseodj

Looking on Ebay, The classified Ad is different to your screen print and the description is simply Honda HRV

The screen print is from an earlier listing for the car when it was for sale as a buy it now (not classified ad) and it did not sell. The seller could make an excuse that they spotted the mistake in the original listing and hence the classified ad, which you say you based your purchase on, does not have any incorrect info

Based on the classified ad the car was not incorrectly descibed

paseodj

verityboo wrote: »

Looking on Ebay, The classified Ad is different to your screen print and the description is simply Honda HRV

The screen print is from an earlier listing for the car when it was for sale as a buy it now (not classified ad) and it did not sell. The seller could make an excuse that they spotted the mistake in the original listing and hence the classified ad, which you say you based your purchase on, does not have any incorrect info

Based on the classified ad the car was not incorrectly descibed

but the date of purchase is prior to the date of change of the advert!

I bought the car on the 7th and it was changed on the 17th

so therefore it is in correctly described

paseodj

pendulum wrote: »

"The car is due for a service, I am happy to do the service or you can have £100 off the price and have it done yourself."

Maybe the brakes would have been picked up in the service. Did you do it or did he?

Btw, blanking out all the details in the screenshots was a waste of time. It's easy to search for a line of the description in Google and it comes right up

had it booked in for a service this month! so didn't even have chance to get it serviced!

paseodj

oh and the original advert I have is not in the form of a screen print, it is the form of a saved webpage which details the date etcetc

and Verityboo..... you seem to presume the car didn't sell during the period it was listed....when infact it did i bought it remember. albeit through face to face negotiations, which means i didn't use the buy it now option on the CLASSIFIED AD

BFDMBIE

vikingaero wrote: »

Easy. If you're that interested in a car then book it in for a MOT - a cheap £55 (or less) vehicle inspection.

When my sister bought a car I booked it in for a MOT and it came back having an advisory for the exhaust which we used to negotiate some money off.

But I don't know anyone (sensible) who buys a secondhand car without getting on their knees.

I notice that the from the eBay advert that the car was registered in 1999 - a 12 year old car which is highly likely to have rust problems.

If i was selling a car and you asked to do this i would refuse, i would let you get it checked independantly but not MOT'd, if the car failed on anything at all it would be illegal to drive it until repaired and re MOT'd, which would both have to be at my expense. Good idea in principal but not in practice.

Flyboy152

This from the troll who thinks that banks give out pin numbers. :D:D

vikingaero

BFDMBIE wrote: »

If i was selling a car and you asked to do this i would refuse, i would let you get it checked independantly but not MOT'd, if the car failed on anything at all it would be illegal to drive it until repaired and re MOT'd, which would both have to be at my expense. Good idea in principal but not in practice.

But you'd still have the old valid MOT...

Luckily car sales is more of a buyers market and I'd walk.:D

d123

paseodj wrote: »

but the date of purchase is prior to the date of change of the advert!

I bought the car on the 7th and it was changed on the 17th

so therefore it is in correctly described

The ad you link to was ended on the 3rd, you might struggle to get a court to believe you bought it from an ended Buy it Now auction that was ended early and 4 days before you say you bought it.

I also noticed the MOT advisory says "both rear brake pipe slightly corroded". Which doesn't quite go with your description. You might still win, hopefully for you the seller won't come to court on the day.

paseodj

d123 wrote: »

The ad you link to was ended on the 3rd, you might struggle to get a court to believe you bought it from an ended Buy it Now auction that was ended early and 4 days before you say you bought it.

I also noticed the MOT advisory says "both rear brake pipe slightly corroded". Which doesn't quite go with your description. You might still win, hopefully for you the seller won't come to court on the day.

yes that linked advert ended on the 3rd however if you look and see it was relisted exactly as I posted the ad. then look at the new ad which just advertises Honda HRV, click on the revisions and it says on the 17th April, the seller revised the item description.... I purchased it on the 7th...... well before the item was revised and this is where my ad comes from... the price on my ad differs from the one on the third and the current one at a pound so theres another bit of evidence to show my ad was the one which got changed


and the advisories say slight corrosion yes, but this was on the previous mot not the current one the current one doesn't mention the brake pipes but they clearly haven't been changed, the brake pipes are not mentioned on any mot before this so they haven't been changed in 11 yearsto the slight corrosion so if they had been changed, they would last more than a year...probably another 11years as someone has already tried to point out