Bought an item in error seller now threatening legal action

CHR15

Originally Posted by tomstickland
I think "bullet dents" is a descriptive term for the bigger dents that collect on the front edge of bonnets etc.

lol, I don't think anyone was seriously suggesting they were real Bullet holes :laugh:

tomstickland

Either way, picking holes in the advert doesn't really excuse the OP for bidding and then pulling out.
Having said that, if I was the seller, I'd not waste my time trying to force a sale, I'd relist it.

MORPH3US

phatbear wrote: »

I hope that he has learnt three lessons from this:

1. Always be careful about how you describe an item on ebay
2. Dont mess with the bear
2. Dont mess with MSE.

Just to add balance, I hope you have also learned your lessons from this... you were almost as bad as he was and all this "I was away... girlfriend had to have it" rubbish counts for nothing..... :rolleyes:. It could just as well have been an MSE'r selling a '54 car registered in 2005...

Although that said the seller was obviously an idiot and got what he deserved.

M

greenstreetprince

MORPH3US wrote: »

Just to add balance, I hope you have also learned your lessons from this... you were almost as bad as he was and all this "I was away... girlfriend had to have it" rubbish counts for nothing..... :rolleyes:.

the bear has already acknowledged his other halves naivety, but that takes nothing away from the fact that sellers such as this one just shouldn't be allowed to get away with this kind of stuff.

greenstreetprince

Grade_A_Reject wrote: »

He describes this one http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PEUGEOT-307-HDi-ESTATE-2003-2-0-DIESEL-LUXURY-AC-TURBO_W0QQitemZ140144895761QQihZ004QQcategoryZ9859QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
as having "[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]iMPERFECTIONS: FEW TINY BULLET DENTS & STONE CHIPS"

Maybe he *is* a gangsta
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that ones been removed too, this guy probably cant believe what's happening to him!

Sarah-Jane_2

greenstreetprince wrote: »

you don't seem to understand the word "previous", if i purchased a car from new 10 years back and sold it now, it would be perfectly OK for me to state 0 previous owners, as that is correct, there are no owners prior to me!

I do understand the word previous. As he is clearly not the owner of this car from new, he just trades in them, then it does have at least one previous owner. He did not purchase the car from new, he has got it from somebody, maybe as a trade-in or at an auction. Therefore as he did not buy the car from the garage and drive it the 90,000 miles himself over the however many years old it is, it has a previous owner. If I was to list my car as a private seller, and i'd bought it from a forecourt 2 years ago, then yes that could be no previous owners. But if I went to my local paper, bought a car with no previous owners and put it on eBay, the car would have a previous owner, and I (or in the case of this listing the man selling) would be the second owner. He is clearly a trader for cars, and any other random crap he can find, so the car he listed did have a previous owner - whoever he obtained the car from.

tomstickland

A trader who doesn't drive the car could call it "no previous owners" if it's still registered in the name of the existing owner.

Time2Go_25

I guess the number of previous owners should tie up with the number of former keepers on the ergistration certificate

Time2Go_25

I guess the number of previous owners should tie up with the number of former keepers on the ergistration certificate

samanthaknd

forget it I was gonna ask a real stupid question until I realised what it was. never mind.