Sold car, buyer isn't happy..

mikey72

s_b wrote: »

the clue is here in the original post for those that dont read everything relevent



frankly those of you that have literally told this poor buyer to go do one i really despair at
just think of the vitriol i would be getting if i had done this as a trader and stuck it up her drive

you should hang your heads in shame:mad:

Be all over you like a bad rash.

But you were in the first posts, and followed by the rest saying take it back.

Only strider reckons it's halfway fair, as he may not have spotted it on his car, and would want a clutch from a dealer, or imagines she would.

hartcjhart

3 options

pay for a new clutch

refund her the money

lose a court case and then pay costs on top

you knowingly sold the car with a slipping clutch

Charliezoo

I don't get it - this woman was crazy enough commit to buy a car without seeing it, handed over the £££ without test driving it or getting it checked over and now complains that there's something wrong with it!

Surely she's gone against all the basic rules of buying a second hand car and is now paying the price? I feel sorry for her but she took a massive risk buying a car in this way - if I was her I'd be biting your hand off for that 1/3 contribution you've offered towards the clutch.

s_b

Charliezoo wrote: »

I don't get it - this woman was crazy enough commit to buy a car without seeing it, handed over the £££ without test driving it or getting it checked over and now complains that there's something wrong with it!

Surely she's gone against all the basic rules of buying a second hand car and is now paying the price? I feel sorry for her but she took a massive risk buying a car in this way - if I was her I'd be biting your hand off for that 1/3 contribution you've offered towards the clutch.

maybe she trusted the seller?
remember he had already been let down by original buyer because as said already original buyer probably rejected it
op says he has money problems so he probably laid on the charm in thick coats to this trusting woman who accepted his word and his generous gift to deliver it

Miles16v

Charliezoo wrote: »

I don't get it - this woman was crazy enough commit to buy a car without seeing it, handed over the £££ without test driving it or getting it checked over and now complains that there's something wrong with it!

Surely she's gone against all the basic rules of buying a second hand car and is now paying the price? I feel sorry for her but she took a massive risk buying a car in this way - if I was her I'd be biting your hand off for that 1/3 contribution you've offered towards the clutch.

And she bought outside of ebay.

She certainly hasn't done herself any favours, buying a £900 car without a test drive, which does leave her up for problems, but the seller has been a bit immoral.

If you knew there was a potential problem with the car that you did not wish to disclose, then you'd have been best listing it with a vague description, stating 'sold as seen'. (Or be honest).

jase1

This is surely a moral, rather than legal thing.

The eBay description is irrelevant unless it specifically states that the clutch was OK.

I think it would be easier to list the private sales on Autotrader which *don't* have undisclosed faults than to list the ones that do.

Private sale = no comeback. If the buyer failed to test-drive, tough titties. That said, if the seller knew he was selling a wrong'un and didn't disclose, they should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

I've done this myself, bought a car on a private sale that turned out to have a clutch that dragged when the car had been on a run (not picked up on test-drive). Are people *seriously* saying I had cause to take the seller to court?

blossomhill_2

This LINK may help - you don't have to volunteer faults

caeler

At what point do we get to critisise the buyer?! She didn't test drive the car, therefore she has no come back. I appreciate the seller now suggests the clutch might have been slipping but this is all hindsight, because the moment a problem is suggested you suddenly accuse yourself of not noticing something and it plays on your mind and you build it into something it was not. This buyer might have done a few dodgy manouvers and killed the clutch for all we know. Ultimately the vehicle was driven to this buyers address. Sold as seen. No moral rights for stupidity - we all know what it is like to buy a second hand car - it is a total unknown.

caeler

^^^^ Apologies for the harshness but I sold my first car over 10 years ago to a friend of a friend. I'd been running around in it fine but I wanted to upgrade to a sporty car. The car was sold as seen for a few hundred quid, it was really an old banger but I loved it, cleaned it every weekend well you do when its your first car! My friend and his friend took the car on a test drive, spend ages look over it and decided to have it. A few weeks later I'm told her mechanic brother has found thousands of pounds worth of work (including clutch) and I had to pay. I was horrified and devasted (I'm seriously such an honest person to my detriment on occasion) I felt so awful until I eventually realised I was being played. There was nothing wrong with that car when I sold it and if she had a mechanic brother why did he not look over the car before she parted with her money. I learned a lesson there and then.

motorguy

benham3160 wrote: »

Ignore in all honesty.

Nothing to say she simply isn't a poor driver who was riding the clutch, or that she felt like the vehicle should have been performing better than it should (what car is it?)

Regards,
Andy

Other than the O/P has admitted to us they knew it was slipping before they sold it?