Post-exchange bargaining

rmc1664

Hi all,

We've just exchanged on a house :j

Before exchange, the vendors asked for around £3,000 to include some wardrobes in the sale (not fitted, but very suitable for where they're located).
Now after exchange, it's been revealed that they're leaving the country and shipping things out. Now they've made a new offer - £1600 for a light fitting and the 6 Ikea PAX wardrobes (working out to about half of retail price), also offering to give us some garage/garden consumables and a small exterior camera for free.

Our mortgage offer was reduced before exchange, so we'll be very hard up on the day of completion. The vendor has said if the items aren't required, they'll dispose of them.

Any thoughts?
Thanks

G_M

Are the wardrobe, light fittings, garden stuff, camera etc included in the contract (via the F&F form)?

If yes,they must be left.

If no, decide if you want them and how much you are willing to pay.


How did this offer come? direct? via estate agent?via solicitors?


If you don't want them, just ignore - they might be left anyway....

Tiglet2

Sounds like they don't want to have to ship these items out, so they could leave them behind in any case. Maybe they are hoping you'll agree to purchase, so they make some money out of the deal and they don't have to pay shipping costs. You could take the chance that they will leave these items in situ and you'll get them for free. You've exchanged so it is too late to add these fixtures & fittings to the contract to make it legally binding. It could be risky if you hand over money before completion and they still take the items.

rmc1664

Not included in the F&F list - they would have been if we'd agreed the £3k initially.

The offer came through the EA, so I imagine we'd send the money to the vendors directly on the day of completion based on trust.. they know where we live after-all.

They've made clear they don't want them. I just wondered if the "buy them or we'll bin them" concept was a common thing? We do want the items, but don't even think it would cost us this much to re-buy them second hand.

Thanks

G_M

Just ignore. No need to even reply.


If the agent follows up, tell him you will not cause problems if the items are abandoned in the property and will not charge removal costs for them.


You can get all those things for peanuts from an auction house eg


https://peacockauction.co.uk/

welwynrose

The seller of the property we’re buying keeps on offering to leave stuff I think they’re struggling to sell stuff on eBay

eddddy

It sounds like a bit of a desperate punt by the seller.

To avoid friction, and to to allow the seller to save face, I'd probably say something like this to the EA:

They're nice wardrobes, but they're not really worth £1600 to me. So it probably makes sense for the seller to sell them to somebody else. But if the seller can't find a buyer in time, as a fall-back I'll pay £250 for them.



(I really doubt that the seller wants to spend a few hours taking the wardrobes apart in order to sell them.

And similarly, I doubt that many buyers would risk buying a pile of flat-pack panels, and a box full of assorted screws, and probably no instructions - in case bits were missing etc.)

Thrugelmir

welwynrose wrote: »

The seller of the property we’re buying keeps on offering to leave stuff I think they’re struggling to sell stuff on eBay

Don't be surprised to find the attic or garage full of unwanted junk.

walwyn1978

G_M wrote: »

Are the wardrobe, light fittings, garden stuff, camera etc included in the contract (via the F&F form)?

If yes,they must be left.

If no, decide if you want them and how much you are willing to pay.


How did this offer come? direct? via estate agent?via solicitors?


If you don't want them, just ignore - they might be left anyway....

Absolutely this. When we bought this house the vendor through our solicitor offered about 10 things. We haggled on 3 (a dishwasher was one of them, I think he wanted £100 and we agreed on £30) and agreed a deal on those, and politely thanks but no thanks to the rest. Lo and behold, we get the keys and all 10 things were there!

pinkteapot

Totally over-priced! We’ve just cleared out a load of furniture for a move and sold it for 10-15% of what it cost through local Facebook selling groups. And that was good quality, solid oak furniture that looked like new.

If you like the stuff and need/want it, offer them £500. You’re doing them a favour as it saves them the hassle of disposal. We’ve just assembled 7 Pax wardrobes and they ain’t light!!

jbainbridge

I was happy to leave the PAX wardrobes in one room for our buyer .. they’re absolutely huge. Would have been a lot of work to remove them!

As someone else suggested perhaps offer a lower amount explaining that money is tight.