private car bought - advertised with service history

halfpastfour

I posted this in 'Motoring' a few days ago, so apologies to those who rediscover it, i hope it's not poor etiquette. I am particularly interested in opinion regarding the law on possible two fronts.
a) because the car was advertised with service history (probably my hard luck personally)
b) i think a crime has been committed, fraud? although prior to my transaction with seller.

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i bought a local car privately with advertised service history and paid full asking price as service history and car appeared good to my eyes. Two days later entire service history turned out to be faked, i suspect seller bought the car with fake history. Now trying to arrange face to face meeting with reluctant unaccused busy seller to explain i would have paid significantly less or walked away. The car is sub £2000 category.
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still yet to face-to-face with seller despite two more telecons.

wealdroam

halfpastfour wrote: »

I posted this in 'Motoring' a few days ago, so apologies to those who rediscover it, i hope it's not poor etiquette. I am particularly interested in opinion regarding the law on possible two fronts.
a) because the car was advertised with service history (probably my hard luck personally)
b) i think a crime has been committed, fraud? although prior to my transaction with seller.

original post>
i bought a local car privately with advertised service history and paid full asking price as service history and car appeared good to my eyes. Two days later entire service history turned out to be faked, i suspect seller bought the car with fake history. Now trying to arrange face to face meeting with reluctant unaccused busy seller to explain i would have paid significantly less or walked away. The car is sub £2000 category.
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still yet to face-to-face with seller despite two more telecons.

You have had fourteen replies on your other thread.

I notice that you haven't bothered to respond to any of those replies, some of which asked you questions.
What didn't you like about those replies?

The first reply you received summed the situation up quite nicely:

Quiet_Spark wrote: »

Unless you can prove the vendor knew the service history was fake, it will be a case of caveat emptor.