We left a deposit as it all stacked up nicely at the time. Nice car, relatively high mileage for that sort of car, so price seemed okay. Guy seemed like a good bloke. We met him at a nice house, had a couple of nice vans outside and so on. When you want to secure a car, u leave a deposit till u come up with the rest of the cash.

I personally reckon that the car is okay, it is just WHO is the real owner and why did we get told it was his, pride and joy, loves his Rs cars, always wanted one, had it for a long time etc, then it was his wife's car, then it was his ex-wives car and she was down in london and they had fallen out and he was selling it cos he had bad memories, and no we couldn't meet her and buy the car from her, he had already bothered her once to get her to call him, then it was his mates car, then his mates wives car and it had been traded in against another car that he sold. (can you believe that one person would tell that many stories?!?!)

The private number plate was a nephews, then it was a mates and so on and on and on.

It all stacked up fine (that number plate is clear on HPI as he showed us) till we got down to the nitty gritty of the V5 form and us not being willing to buy the car from someone whose name was not in the V5 or someone who didn't have a receipt of purchase for the car. Supposedly people buy cars all the time from someone if their name is not on the V5 (so we were told, and that is why I wanted to ask you lot if you had?). I can see me buying a car from a trader when it doesnt have his name on the V5 - that is to be expected, but not what at first seems like a private sale.

Read that story and then think that WE were the ones who lost out financially on the deposit and we were called timewasters.

RW