Can Trader do this?

maninthestreet

Sounds like a 'bait and switch' trick - the trader wants you to pay 25% extra for a car with 13k more miles on it than advertised, has had accessories removed from it that were present when the car was advertised and also advertised as FSH but apparently has no service book.....

bigadaj

Was it actually the advertised car?

Herzlos

That's what I was wondering, is he trying to sell you a completely different car?

In any case, with the state of the advert, you can only imagine how bad the after sales would be. Either walk away or look *very* carefully at it for things that have been hidden.

bigjl

AdrianC wrote: »

The advert is irrelevant. It did its job when you went to view the car.

From there on in, it's entirely down to what deal you cut with the vendor. The mileage on the car is the one you saw on the odometer (but who cares, if it's a cheap used car?). The price is the one you agree with him. The bits on the car are the bits you agree with him. The service history is what you have documentation to back up.

Sorry AdrianC.

Can't agree.

It look suspiciously like a Bait and Switch.

Sosumi

AdrianC wrote: »

The advert is irrelevant. It did its job when you went to view the car.

You miss, callously, another point. What about the time and expense of the potential buyer, who goes to see, in good faith, a car that has been advertised dishonestly?

Your attitude sucks and it also reveals a lot about yourself.

AdrianC

Sosumi wrote: »

You miss, callously, another point. What about the time and expense of the potential buyer, who goes to see, in good faith, a car that has been advertised dishonestly?

You seem to think that people go to see a vehicle advertised for sale with some kind of expectation that it must be absolutely worth buying, and finding out it is not is some kind of personal disaster.

Nope.

When looking for a vehicle, I'm be going to look with an expectation that it is NOT worth buying, and am looking to be convinced that it IS. If I rock up, and what's sat there is not what I'm expecting, then - hey ho, turn around and go. The odds are that I'd be doing exactly that anyway.

There must be people who turn up, find out that it's not what they were expecting, but seem to think they have to buy it anyway. If there weren't, then misdescribed ads would be pointless.

If I were travelling from anything but a nominal distance, then the damn thing would have to be pretty damn unusual in the first place, and there'd be some serious pre-qualification on the phone, with plenty of photos being sent through, before I bothered with the journey. And I STILL wouldn't be travelling with an expectation that anything but buying was a dismal failure and a waste of time, effort and money.

Herzlos

Most people, I assume, will only travel to go and see a vehicle if they feel it is worth buying, and will only make a cursory check with the dealer before travelling, because, well, it's all in the advert.

My local dealer (on the dodgy end of the spectrum) claims that almost no-one test drives his cars - they've pretty much made up their mind online and just turn up, pay and drive off. He does have a workhorse niche though.

Sure, it's not in itself a big deal to travel a few miles on a day off to visit a car, and if I did that to find it was a waste of time then it's OK, but for some people that may require childcare, buses and what not.

I've travelled 1 and 3 hours to view cars before, to find them nothing like described in the ad / over the phone and been pretty peeved, though.

AdrianC

Herzlos wrote: »

Most people, I assume, will only travel to go and see a vehicle if they feel it is worth buying, and will only make a cursory check with the dealer before travelling, because, well, it's all in the advert.

My local dealer (on the dodgy end of the spectrum) claims that almost no-one test drives his cars - they've pretty much made up their mind online and just turn up, pay and drive off.

More fool them. No wonder there are so many shonky traders flogging rubbish.

missile

jadex wrote: »

Seller is a trader (not private), seems nice and honest, likeable chap.

I think you are a little naïve.

Strider590

jadex wrote: »

Seller is a trader (not private), seems nice and honest, likeable chap.

The seller is a typical sociopathic car salesman.

We have this thing in the western world of trusting people who talk a lot and "seem nice", but those people are actually the people that we should trust the least.