Buying off eBay

motorguy

CrazyRatLady wrote: »

You do realise that we're talking about walking away because the car was not in the condition described? In those cases the seller has wasted the buyers time by not being honest.

+1

I won an auction for a Zafira recently. Described as all good, no problems.

Drove 30 miles with a friend (who was going to drive it back). Got there and the guy insisted HE started it (which was a poor way to hide it only fired up on three cylinders at most) and the car was blowing masses of blue smoke.

I just walked away. Sadly the seller not only wasted his time, but more importantly, mine and a friends too.

verydeeppockets

If it's the 528 I think it is, it looks a tidy barge - private seller, both keys, service records and he sounds honest enough mentioning stuff that's broken. Sunroof too.
Don't panic, I just looked on ebay, I don't know the car personally.
Good luck. You have more bottle than I do

s_b

jase1 wrote: »

What about the poor sod who has to pay up the £50-100, and a week wasted putting it online, you've just wasted on him?

This is the reason I'll never sell a car worth more than a couple of hundred quid on ebay. It's completely unacceptable to waste people's time like this and people who do it are worse than the stuff I pick up on the base of my shoe.

If you can't view before bidding, don't bloody bid. It really is that simple.

i agree but will go further
if its a decent car i autotrade it if i need to advertise it
if its a £200 car i weigh them in
ive seen people selling cars on ebay auctions and then seen the nitpickers
there was one where he advertised it as a slipping clutch and it sold for about £200 buyer came up on the train drove it and rejected it for the clutch
seller refused to sell it to under bidder and drove it onto the bridge of death where he got paid £240 for the car at £205 a tonne
i learnt one of my lessons from that

i put on here the other week in a separate thread and will repeat it because i see it daily i saw it this morning when money owed was not paid to me but i got a promise i will get it next week

all buyers are liars

custardy

s_b wrote: »

i agree but will go further
if its a decent car i autotrade it if i need to advertise it
if its a £200 car i weigh them in
ive seen people selling cars on ebay auctions and then seen the nitpickers
there was one where he advertised it as a slipping clutch and it sold for about £200 buyer came up on the train drove it and rejected it for the clutch
seller refused to sell it to under bidder and drove it onto the bridge of death where he got paid £240 for the car at £205 a tonne
i learnt one of my lessons from that

i put on here the other week in a separate thread and will repeat it because i see it daily i saw it this morning when money owed was not paid to me but i got a promise i will get it next week

all buyers are liars

lol,what a pleb statement

mikey72

custardy wrote: »

lol,what a pleb statement

What do you think?
He's a trader.
"Good runner, one careful owner"

TrickyWicky

mikey72 wrote: »

What do you think?
He's a trader.
"Good runner, one careful owner"

Too true. Traders seem to see customers as cash cows hence I've only had one car from a trader. While the car ran fine I was a bit hacked off about another aspect of it. Sold as clean, tidy, no bad odours etc and the thing STUNK of a dog. I didn't mind that so much, cleaned it up etc but I won't buy from another trader again.

To counter s b:
All traders are scammers.

jase1

s_b wrote: »

there was one where he advertised it as a slipping clutch and it sold for about £200 buyer came up on the train drove it and rejected it for the clutch

Well there you go.

This is the kind of scenario I was referring to. If people can't be bothered to read properly and instead inject their own opinions into everything that's their lookout, and frankly is the kind of attitude that leads to things like the above happening in the first place.

Ironically, such folk would be the first to come on here and !!!!! about it if they were the victim of something like the above.

I don't think they'd like it very much if the seller refused to sell the car because the buyer "looked a bit scruffy" either. Yet this is what the seller is expected to swallow if the like of AlexisV gets their way.

The only time the "not as described" thing holds any water is if the car is not as described. Taking things to the extreme, if a car is sold as "Vauxhall Astra 1.6, 2002" and the buyer turns up on-spec and finds there's a rip in the driver's seat, TOUGH, you should have checked before you bid.

mattyprice4004

Bought 4 cars unseen on eBay, all more than 10 years old apart from my most recent - the 75.

Picked it up from Nottingham in the dark, took a list of the common faults with those cars with me and got about half-way through the list before I gave up and went inside his house for a brew lol.

If you're happy to have some minor niggles to sort out, buying unseen is fine.

mikey72

jase1 wrote: »

Well there you go.

This is the kind of scenario I was referring to. If people can't be bothered to read properly and instead inject their own opinions into everything that's their lookout, and frankly is the kind of attitude that leads to things like the above happening in the first place.

Ironically, such folk would be the first to come on here and !!!!! about it if they were the victim of something like the above.

I don't think they'd like it very much if the seller refused to sell the car because the buyer "looked a bit scruffy" either. Yet this is what the seller is expected to swallow if the like of AlexisV gets their way.

The only time the "not as described" thing holds any water is if the car is not as described. Taking things to the extreme, if a car is sold as "Vauxhall Astra 1.6, 2002" and the buyer turns up on-spec and finds there's a rip in the driver's seat, TOUGH, you should have checked before you bid.

Probably the seller's description of a "slipping clutch" was "slight slipping, still driveable" and the poor buyer who turned up on the train couldn't even get it off the forecourt.
The seller must have eventually decided the buyer was right, it was only fit for scrap in the end.

As to refusing to sell if the "buyer was a bit scruffy", I bet you wouldn't be keen if the money looked a bit funny.

TrickyWicky wrote: »

Too true. Traders seem to see customers as cash cows hence I've only had one car from a trader. While the car ran fine I was a bit hacked off about another aspect of it. Sold as clean, tidy, no bad odours etc and the thing STUNK of a dog. I didn't mind that so much, cleaned it up etc but I won't buy from another trader again.

To counter s b:
All traders are scammers.

I'm after a particular model, and so far the only ones for sale are with traders. I just can't bring myself to buy from them. I keep telling myself they can't all be the same, but even so......

jase1

mikey72 wrote: »

Probably the seller's description of a "slipping clutch" was "slight slipping, still driveable" and the poor buyer who turned up on the train couldn't even get it off the forecourt.

Take that up with s b -- I was simply going on what was written rather than building my own assumptions into the story (again).