Faulty ebay car 'private sale'?

maxmycardagain

Joe_Horner wrote: »

This as the only realistic comeback. First and easiest check is ebay history - is he "changing" his car every 5 minutes on there?

Even as a private sale you could probably fight it - "running well" doesn't include having to fill with coolant after 1.5 hours of motorway, where they tend to run cool. But you'd have a long, uphill (and expensive) battle to try that way, with no guarantee of actually getting any money back in the end even if you won.

The same thing about no guarantees applies if he was a trader, but you at least have the leverage of informing trading standards / local council (running car sales from home - likely due business rates and possibly breaking tenancy conditions if he's renting)) / DSS / HMRC / all of the above.


eta: for all those wh'll no doubt come along and say it's not worth it: If the OP decided it was worth the effort and there were signs of the guy trading then this is exactly the sort of trader who needs to be put out of business for the good of everyone. That won't happen as long as everyone throws their hands in the air and says what can you do

FIRST....google his phone number, you wouldnt believe how dumb some "private" ebayers are, ive found the same number listed on TWO id's bidding against each other......epic fail or what!


If the OP wants me to do it and dig deeper they can PM me the details they have

Trading standards used to log all paper adverts phone numbers to find "traders" who try to avoid the requirements under law for selling