Robbo
Member
Registered: 6th Aug 02
Location: London
User status: Offline
|
in Brum 
|
flybikeslee
Member
Registered: 2nd Jan 07
Location: Liverpool
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Kurt
Send Nic Barnes round 
nic would never get there with corners involved remember
|
John
Member
Registered: 30th Jun 03
User status: Offline
|
How much was the car up for?
If it's an old clio the guy was never wasting hs time doing a 400 mile round trip.
|
Kurt
Member
Registered: 23rd Oct 05
Location: Hi
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by flybikeslee
quote:
Originally posted by Kurt
Send Nic Barnes round
nic would never get there with corners involved remember
he delivers tyres in a van... and tyre irons are quite "handy" 
|
J da Silva
Member
Registered: 10th Apr 03
Location: The FACTory
User status: Offline
|
This was a naive and ill judged deal, but it will make you more wise next time, so use it as a learning experience.
Dad x
|
p
Member
Registered: 20th Apr 04
Location: England
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by John
How much was the car up for?
If it's an old clio the guy was never wasting hs time doing a 400 mile round trip.
2,500 just what I needed. Cnut doesn't pick up his phone or anything.
|
Butler
Member
Registered: 2nd Jun 05
Location: London
User status: Offline
|
Must have been a pretty special clio to go all that far!
|
p
Member
Registered: 20th Apr 04
Location: England
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Butler
Must have been a pretty special clio to go all that far!
It was exaclty what I needed. Mint con, low miles, the color, the mot, the tax etc. The train journey wasn't bad it was just the cost. Obviously was going to drive the thing back!
|
sc0ott
Member
Registered: 16th Feb 09
User status: Offline
|
insurance? the would up the cost.
|
Butler
Member
Registered: 2nd Jun 05
Location: London
User status: Offline
|
Clios are really common though, if you look hard enough you find one locally in no time
|
andys sxi
Premium Member
Registered: 19th Jan 06
Location: Chester Drives:Scirocco tdi bluemotion
User status: Offline
|
what it sounds like to me the car broke down and he was too embarased to say typical french car 
post the details sure some people will have some fun with him
find a localish one to you there will be hundred for sale
April 08 feature car
|
p
Member
Registered: 20th Apr 04
Location: England
User status: Offline
|
Yeh I will do. Insurance was only 300 which wasn't to bad.
I'll post his number up or something later
|
DannyB
Premium Member
Registered: 6th Feb 08
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by corsadee
I'll post his number up or something later
|
--DAN--
Member
Registered: 3rd Feb 03
Location: Bottesford. Drives;3 Series
User status: Offline
|
Why did you take your mum I know its not really the point but it would have saved you a fortune if you were a big boy and went on your own.
[Edited on 06-10-2009 by --DAN--]
|
SVM 286
Member
Registered: 13th Feb 05
Location: pain
User status: Offline
|
Dee, I can better your story...
Trudged all the way to the back of beyond in essex to look at a 1990, ebony black metalic 4X4 Sapphire Cosworth.
Car wasn't perfect but was more or less worth the four grand asking price and he wouldn't budge so we shook on it. Told him everything I had to do to seal the deal and make it legal and said i'd be along to collect it the following Saturday.
Spent the following week taking time out of work to hunt down and arrange a bank loan and insurance for the car.
Had cover in place and the certificate in my possession and the loan was signed for and the money in my account.
On the FRIDAY. Six days after we'd agreed the sale and the afternoon before the morning I would be picking it up, he TEXTED me to tell me he'd changed his mind and that he wasn't going to sell the car any more. 
I'm sure you can imagine the content of the next phone call we had.
In case you cannot, I informed him that I hoped the car would blow up, get smashed up, stolen, or any combination of any or all of the above.
I also wished him a premature, yet lingering death that involved him screaming and bleeding out of his eyes and arsehole and that if that were not possible that he would contract some sort of cancer or AIDS or consumptive desease or at the very least be raped and horribly beaten some time in the near future.
Needless to say he didn't speak much, other than to appologise repeatedly like some kind of cornered bitch and to offer to get me the wheels I wanted to put on the car ''at cost''. ''Not a lot of good without the fucking car to put them on'' I responded. I then told him he was the biggest c.u.n.t i'd had the misfortune of dealing with and put the phone down.
I spent the next year paying the four grand back with interest and loan protection of course and I had to pay the first installment on the insurance.
There's some proper arseholes out there Dee. All we can do is learn from our mistakes i'm afraid.
|
Kurt
Member
Registered: 23rd Oct 05
Location: Hi
User status: Offline
|
Jim that is fucking shocking 
|
willay
Moderator
Organiser: South East, National Events
Premium Member
Registered: 10th Nov 02
Location: Roydon, Essex
User status: Offline
|
Jim
|
Jake
Member
Registered: 24th Jan 05
User status: Offline
|
you will go and deal with cosworth owners Jim..
|
Cosmo
Member
Registered: 29th Mar 01
Location: Im the real one!
User status: Offline
|
dont ypu get 14 days or something with insurance to cancel it at no cost?
|
SVM 286
Member
Registered: 13th Feb 05
Location: pain
User status: Offline
|
Not good is it boys.
I learned the extremely hard way.
So seriously wanted to maim or kill the worthless fuck.
Never again. Deposit and signed contract in any car dealings from that day on.
|
SVM 286
Member
Registered: 13th Feb 05
Location: pain
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
dont ypu get 14 days or something with insurance to cancel it at no cost?
Was a specialist policy with modifications and so on as far as I remember Cos. Happened in 2004 so i'm a bit sketchy, but i'd paid the policy in full and got my refund minus a handling fee and a percentage for the time the car had been covered which was conveniently roughly the cost of a months cover if I remember correctly. Not impressed at all.
|
SVM 286
Member
Registered: 13th Feb 05
Location: pain
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by jake
you will go and deal with cosworth owners Jim..
They are usually refined folks. This bloke was a bit of a middle man/wheeler dealer type selling from home I think.
I think he'd bought the car to make a profit and had not done so. As a result I think he was trying it on or had fallen for the car and wanted to keep it for himself.
Either way. What a wanker.
|
Jake
Member
Registered: 24th Jan 05
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by SVM 286
quote:
Originally posted by jake
you will go and deal with cosworth owners Jim..
They are usually refined folks
id like to meet those versions. all the cosworths here you will find skidding around carparks
|
Robbo
Member
Registered: 6th Aug 02
Location: London
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
dont ypu get 14 days or something with insurance to cancel it at no cost?
probably in the days of yore tbh
|
p
Member
Registered: 20th Apr 04
Location: England
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by --DAN--
Why did you take your mum I know its not really the point but it would have saved you a fortune if you were a big boy and went on your own.
[Edited on 06-10-2009 by --DAN--]
Needed some one to drive it back who has insurance, plus I can't drive at the moment with the medication I am on.
|
