Sold a vehicle that I have been told in unroadworthy

GrumpyDil

My bet is no conversation has taken place or his memory is a little off. 

I have a friend who is a solicitor and I'm pretty certain their advice would have been along the lines of "what planet are you living on" and "don't waste your time" 

caprikid1

You could also go plan B.

Contact the police and report them for Harassment !.

jimjames

Coop1234567890 said:

I have not responded to the message. The buyer must think they have a case against me. Losing a lot of sleep over this. 

Please don't lose sleep over it. The buyer has no case against you regardless of whether they think it or not. They chose to not test drive or inspect the car which you had get MOTd which demonstrates that it was roadworthy at that point. As above they can't even get the law correct so they're trying it on and probably just found that info online that they could send and probably haven't even spoken to a solicitor.

Flight3287462

I think the OP wants to cave, not listening to anything the board has said.   

Block the number and ignore.

prowla

I once had a scammer try and tell me he'd discussed things with a solicitor and would sue me for libel, so I should apologise to him or it would cost me.

I challenged him to point out anything I had said which wasn't true, as the truth is an absolute defence against libel.

Of course, there was no solicitor.

Aretnap

The Sale of Goods Act does (or rather, did) apply to private sales, but imposed far less rigorous rules on private sales than it did on business to consumer sales. In a private sale SOGA stipulated that (a) the goods must have been yours to sell in the first place and (b) that your description of them must have been accurate (not necessarily complete). That's it. Additional requirements that the goods be of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose etc applied only to business to consumer sales.

Of course the Sale of Goods Act has largely been replaced by the Consumer Rights Act. Referring to SOGA implies that either (a) he hasn't really spoken to a solicitor or (b) he's spoken to a friend of a friend who mostly does conveyancing and isn't up to speed on consumer law.

Trading Standards have no role to play in private sales.

A text is no more and no less "legally binding" than a letter at this stage - there's nothing to be bound to. It's just some bloke asking for his money back. You can engage with him or not as you see fit. 

Jenni_D

Re. your points about SoGA and private sales - I don't think anything has changed in that regard in the CRA.  

rca779

Send him a link to this discussion

theoretica

Coop1234567890 said:

I have not responded to the message. The buyer must think they have a case against me. Losing a lot of sleep over this. 

The buyer merely hopes they can wear you down - and I am confident you would not get the car back in the condition you sold it if you did refund, that being the nature of fraudsters.

brianposter

None of the faults listed are likely to persuade a buyer who does not know what they are doing to have a recently MOTd car inspected. This has all appearance of being a scam.