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Selling a recently purchased car

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  • Inner_Zone
    Inner_Zone Posts: 2,856 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Next week here.



    But I suggest you follow the link in post #2. Much more there on numerous subjects.
  • DanS1
    DanS1 Posts: 109 Forumite
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    Have now sold it to We Buy Any Car. Got a few hundred pounds less than originally paid but that's the price of convienience. Did manage to find more space to park in my area but it was very llimited (about 5 spaces at most) and because I had black box insurance i couldn't just park where I felt like. Immediate family are fuming but it's a massive weight off my shoulders. Will wait until I've got a better job and somewhere bigger to live with more room to park before I do that again!
  • Inner_Zone
    Inner_Zone Posts: 2,856 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    DanS1 wrote: »
    Have now sold it to We Buy Any Car. Got a few hundred pounds less than originally paid but that's the price of convienience. Did manage to find more space to park in my area but it was very llimited (about 5 spaces at most) and because I had black box insurance i couldn't just park where I felt like. Immediate family are fuming but it's a massive weight off my shoulders. Will wait until I've got a better job and somewhere bigger to live with more room to park before I do that again!


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  • NBLondon
    NBLondon Posts: 5,735 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    DanS1 wrote: »
    Have now sold it to We Buy Any Car.
    How much did you pay the OP for it? Sorry - I mean AE don't I?
    I need to think of something new here...
  • DanS1
    DanS1 Posts: 109 Forumite
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    I am the OP - not sure why I'm all of a sudden DanS1.

    Not giving figures but it was a few hundred less than what I paid for it.
  • DanS1
    DanS1 Posts: 109 Forumite
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    So - do you guys think I've done the right thing??
  • DanS1 wrote: »
    So - do you guys think I've done the right thing??

    Not bad going you've lost £300-400 in 3 weeks.......good job you didn't keep it for a few months
  • DanS1
    DanS1 Posts: 109 Forumite
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    edited 11 November 2019 at 11:29PM
    Thanks. My insurance would most likely have been cancelled to due to having to park here there and everywhere nearly every night and having a black box would have meant I'd have got caught. And once your insurance is cancelled its very difficult to get insurance elsewhere. As I say it was a lovely car and the family are disappointed but I had no choice. I was stuffed either way. I was good at driving but the stress of parking knocked my confidence. That's why I had to sell it.

    If I'd kept it for a few months I'd have got even less and be more stressed with it!
  • DanS1 wrote: »
    I am the OP - not sure why I'm all of a sudden DanS1.

    Not giving figures but it was a few hundred less than what I paid for it.

    Because you are DanS1 who was called out as a wum on another Forum!! and took the huff!!!
  • Scrapit
    Scrapit Posts: 2,304 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Second Anniversary Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    OP has different user name to the "OP" that is replying...seems legit.
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