Paid deposit on a car and just noticed they sold it at the wrong price

Car_54

Zandoni wrote: »

What a kind. caring person.

The original quoted price was £9k plus (both versions)

The OP was offered £3k as a trade-in.

9 - 3 = 6.

The OP was quoted £7k plus and jumped at it. That is not an accident. Lets's be kind and add "innumeracy" to my list.

Zandoni

Car_54 wrote: »

The original quoted price was £9k plus (both versions)

The OP was offered £3k as a trade-in.

9 - 3 = 6.

The OP was quoted £7k plus and jumped at it. That is not an accident. Lets's be kind and add "innumeracy" to my list.

An over simplified equation to try and make the OP look stupid and to support a dishonest car salesman.

AdrianC

Zandoni wrote: »

An over simplified equation to try and make the OP look stupid and to support a dishonest car salesman.

You're big on reasons why it's a con, but very short on explaining the actual con in detail.

So how did this "dishonest" salesman get away with saying "£9,500 - <sleight-of-hand> - £9,800, minus £3,000, plus (absolute max <£300, prob <£100) tax equals £7,200"?

And in what parallel universe would anybody with a modicum of alertness and basic numeracy then go "Oooh, if we call it £7k dead, there's a deal", then shake on £7,100...?

How, then, is paying £7,100 a "con", when the deal has been explicitly negotiated and agreed on that £7,100 figure?

Sorry, but there's more than just the figures not adding up here.

bod1467

Only the OP can clarify details, and (s)he hasn't posted back here since post #10 on 10/05/2015.

BeenThroughItAll

Zandoni wrote: »

An over simplified equation to try and make the OP look stupid and to support a dishonest car salesman.

Pray tell how you would complicate the equation to support your view that the OP wasn't negligent in not checking the numbers?

Zandoni

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Pray tell how you would complicate the equation to support your view that the OP wasn't negligent in not checking the numbers?

I agree the OP should have checked the figures but they didn't and that was a shame. This doesn't mean the seller should have taken advantage of the situation. When using the actual figures it's a little more understandable than when using your single digit equation

BeenThroughItAll

Zandoni wrote: »

I agree the OP should have checked the figures but they didn't and that was a shame. This doesn't mean the seller should have taken advantage of the situation. When using the actual figures it's a little more understandable than when using your single digit equation

Shows how much you're paying attention that you think it was my 'single digit equation'.


Similar inattention might easily result in you paying too much for something, even if you were happy with the figures discussed.


Not an AE of the OP are you, by any chance? You seem unnaturally accommodating of their negligence in this situation. You're busily accusing other posters of being blinkered to the situation whilst displaying similar tendencies in your own inability to accept that the OP was, to a major extent, responsible for the situation we find ourselves discussing.

Zandoni

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Shows how much you're paying attention that you think it was my 'single digit equation'.


Similar inattention might easily result in you paying too much for something, even if you were happy with the figures discussed.


Not an AE of the OP are you, by any chance? You seem unnaturally accommodating of their negligence in this situation. You're busily accusing other posters of being blinkered to the situation whilst displaying similar tendencies in your own inability to accept that the OP was, to a major extent, responsible for the situation we find ourselves discussing.

I'm nothing to do with the OP, I'm just supporting their plight. I'm still amazed at how many people support a crooked dealer.

matttye

Zandoni wrote: »

I'm nothing to do with the OP, I'm just supporting their plight. I'm still amazed at how many people support a crooked dealer.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/common-problems-with-products/problems-with-price-or-payment/prices-of-goods-are-changed-on-the-website-or-at-the-shop-till/

Dealer does not have to sell at advertised price. Buyer does not have to buy at inflated price. Dealer may have done something unscrupulous or it may be an oversight on their part, but the OP is not entitled to a refund. Dealer does not have to sell at the advertised price, but cannot make the buyer pay inflated price.

colino

Suppose there is no chance the OP coming back to say I saw a car I really liked, offloaded a troublesome TI, agreed to pay £7100 on top of the TI but now want to mump about the invoice that I don't understand?