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Dealer sold an unroadworthy car

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  • soolin
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    hollydays wrote: »
    You can report any of her other listings as you are not allowed to put conditions on the use of paypal. You have to offer paypal.

    Not with cars or other motor vehicles and sellers should rightly refuse any attempt to use PayPal on a car.

    OP just looking at one of your posts, is the last service showing as 2012 a mis print? That seems. Long while to go without a properly recorded service.
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  • ScorpiondeRooftrouser
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    No dealer is going to sell a car needing a new battery, if that is causing visible issues - they'd put a working battery in. If they say it needs a new battery, they are covering for something.
  • bod1467
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    soolin wrote: »
    OP just looking at one of your posts, is the last service showing as 2012 a mis print? That seems. Long while to go without a properly recorded service.

    There's at least one typo in the post ... MOT shows as January 2017.
  • hollydays
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    soolin wrote: »
    Not with cars or other motor vehicles and sellers should rightly refuse any attempt to use PayPal on a car.

    OP just looking at one of your posts, is the last service showing as 2012 a mis print? That seems. Long while to go without a properly recorded service.

    I can now see they don't have to offer paypal.
    However they have offered partial paypal, and it's still against ebay rules to discourage someone from using a particular payment method by imposing conditions, surely?
  • soolin
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    bod1467 wrote: »
    There's at least one typo in the post ... MOT shows as January 2017.

    I didn't notice that.

    Doing a quick look on eBay at cars it appears most sell on classified ads which work exactly the same as ads placed in the local paper- so the whole 'off ebay' thing is a bit of a red herring as this would not have had any of the normal eBay protection. Seller places ad, buyer goes and has a look pays cash and that's it as far as eBay are concerned.

    This needs to be treated just like any other dealer purchase.
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  • soolin
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    hollydays wrote: »
    I can now see they don't have to offer paypal.
    However they have offered partial paypal, and it's still against ebay rules to discourage someone from using a particular payment method by imposing conditions, surely?

    Nope, as you say the seller does not have to accept PayPal but they can if they wish set up requirements about deposits . It is the buyer in this case that cannot insist on using PayPal, the seller can do what they wish- and a PayPal deposit would actually give no protection to either the buyer or seller anyway.
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  • hollydays
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    soolin wrote: »
    Nope, as you say the seller does not have to accept PayPal but they can if they wish set up requirements about deposits . It is the buyer in this case that cannot insist on using PayPal, the seller can do what they wish- and a PayPal deposit would actually give no protection to either the buyer or seller anyway.

    Ebay says this is prohibited
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    Discouraging buyers from using any payment method the seller specified in the listing (for example, by imposing a surcharge for a certain payment method)"
    Would this not be applicable to their current listings?
  • custardy
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    hollydays wrote: »
    You can report any of her other listings as you are not allowed to put conditions on the use of paypal. You have to offer paypal.

    nope,not on vehicles.
  • soolin
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    hollydays wrote: »
    Ebay says this is prohibited
    "
    Discouraging buyers from using any payment method the seller specified in the listing (for example, by imposing a surcharge for a certain payment method)"
    Would this not be applicable to their current listings?

    If you are talking cars then no, it doesn't help. Cars are exempt from any requirement to accept PayPal.
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  • hollydays
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    edited 8 March 2016 at 11:13AM
    soolin wrote: »
    If you are talking cars then no, it doesn't help. Cars are exempt from any requirement to accept PayPal.

    That's not my point.ebay says no one is allowed to impose a surcharge, it doesn't exclude any section of sellers.
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