D-Sport

as per title i find myself with 2 cars i want to get rid of, had them advertised locally on a local website

heres a conversation via text today from someone thinking im saint vincent de paul charity

the conversation starts with this guy asking about a 2005 pertol vectra taxed and tested i have for sale, would i trade in his sisters 2002 hyundai coupe petrol with no test and 180,000 miles on it

i says yeah but would need 1600euro with the coupe for the vectra

heres his reply

------ SMS ------
From:
Received: 17 Jul 2012 16:04
Subject: About 5 you lookin for way to much...

About 500 euro, you lookin for way to much it only vectra it for my sister i drivin black m 3 01 so you tryin a catch the wrong person the hyundi was bought for 3 grand for her 3 months ago . Thanks anyway

my reply to him back was

------ SMS ------
To:
Sent: 17 Jul 2012 16:08
Subject: Not trying to catch anyone mate,

Not trying to catch anyone mate, your asking to half the mileage and come up 3 years for 500?? Best of luck on that one mr I'm an m3 driver lol, hyundai coupes are fetching between 1500 and 2500 on done deal, urs has no nct and it seems you already got caught 3 mths ago otherwise u wouldn't be looking to change,


i went on to further say to him

Call into an opel dealer and see what they will quote u, I'm sure they could do with a good laugh, oh be sure to mention you drive a black M3, that will have them shaking in their boots


between this shite and midnight phone calls looking for info on the cars for sale and im not even a dealer, i just have 2 cars to get shut of ffs

lol

RS Grant

iTrader: (1)

I hate selling cars privately.


Cheers,
Grant

fraser9764

iTrader: (3)

Never sold a complete car privately, not looking forward to it either, I would have probably sold and replaced my van by now if I could be arsed with idiots

DanW@FastFord

iTrader: (1)

Sold all my cars privately (well apart from the ones i crashed) and never had any issues. Probably depends on what you're selling I suppose.

matts1

Makes me laugh, when selling my misses old mans pug 405 td estate for Ł350 with a full ticket and six months tax i got:

'does the car come with full service history and are there any marks on the paintwork'

At Ł350 and 20 years old, you should expect it to have been to the moon and back, to have not seen a main dealer since it last drove past one and more than the odd vicar has lent his bike against it in it's lifetime'.

Second idiot:
'will u swop 4 xbox init'

Sorry, cash or 4 camels and your daughters hand in marriage only'

This is Gumtree for you lol!!

That said, if you blank off the text'ers and the instant 'what you gunna take, lowest price yeh' idiots, you normally find a genuine buyer without too much trouble, and if you dont, either it is priced too high, or the pictures and description is w*nk.

XRT_si

iTrader: (2)

Had some proper bad ones.

Was selling the engine from my Cossie a couple of years ago and put it on eBay as I wasn;t having much luck on the forums. Was a good runner, 200 block etc... A guy messaged me saying would I take Ł600. I politely said no - I wanted a lot more for it. He replied - "Are you having a laugh? It's not the '90s anymore, it's worth nothing like that. It's not even got the turbo on it."

I SO wanted to email him when it sold for Ł1300. Actually sold it to as really nice, honest guy as well!

D-Sport

It's the idiots that think theirs is worth millions and u should give urs away for free

McGoo 69

im having the same issues atm, trying to sell my m3 replica and people expect me to let it go for 2-3k under the asking price..

and ive tried selling my shell on ebay and the winning bidder "couldnt make it" to collect

selling cars privately is a ballache!

Escy

Tell me about it. Whenever i'm selling a car I get silly part-ex offers. People always seem to expect top price for their cars. I have to remind them that for me to take something i'm not wanting in a part-ex, i'm doing them a favour and therefore the figures need to be stacked in my favour otherwise why should I bother?

Best one I had was some bloke offering a part ex of a 996 4S on my E36 M3. I say what figures have you got in mind? He wanted 10k on top. He valued his car at better than top book price as it was good condition while also taking 3k off the price of my M3.

Generally everything goes nice and smoothly, you just got to sieve the idiots out 1st.

D-Sport

Maybe I should add a grand so the idiots will then by default offer a good price

spot1

Done that before on ebay had a bike up for Ł4.5k which was a bargain kept getting offers of Ł3.5-Ł4 so put it upto Ł5 and sold it to a dealer in scotland(i'm in dorset) for Ł4.5k in half a day.

D-Sport

The problem in the boom time was everyone wanted to boast about how expensive their car, house, vagina surgery cost, now the boast is how little they got it for and how well they fucked the seller over

D-Sport

Anyone want a cheap vectra? Lol

D-Sport

Ive just added 500 to the vectors price, let's see if anything works from that, maybe cunts thought it was too cheap and something wrong with it

RigPig

Its normally the other way around eith most " car dealers ", they want to give you fucl all for your trade in , but want top money for what they are selling.

BRAMMER

iTrader: (23)

All my sales have gone through apart from one

Was selling a Clio 16v with a blown gearbox - it would drive a little but the input shaft was shot so it was just advertised purely to collect on a trailer.
The lad who said he wanted the car and would come to collect with his mate, came 350 miles expecting to drive it back - i told him several times it won't get him back - it blew to pieces after 20 miles then a phone call complaining, young lad that thought he knew it all

D-Sport

" oh I'm sorry sir, the fact that you have passed the 20 miles distance from my house means I really couldn't give a fuck, bye bye now ta ta"

Psycho Warren

iTrader: (5)

ive noticed that with lots of things, not just cars. You advertise it cheap and you just get scum trouble with it. It seems to put off the decent buyers as they think somethings wrong or its too good to be true and brings it into the price range of the clowns.

once you have something in the "cheap" price range, people seem to expect the world for fuck all

When i did kitchen fitting a while back, we found the cheap kitchens we occasionally did were the worst customers. They seemed to expect a show kitchen quality from a Ł1200 budget unit set...... Didnt bother doing cheaper kitchens from then on. Just wasnt worth what was probably 3 times the hassle.
I hope you laughed then hung up

Shings

Guys.

For everyone of you that is commercially astute and wouldn't dream of selling your cars cheaply there is 10 of you who will take a kick in the teeth.

When I buy a car I will always ask the question and come up with stupid reasons why the car should be cheaper and someone will always sell it cheaper.

It might not be you but it will be someone.

Why take it personally - it's just business.

Money is better in my pocket than yours - simple really, or do you always pay asking price. Course you do!!!!

Psycho Warren

iTrader: (5)

theres a difference between saying "well its got a few dings and needs a cambelt so i can only offer xxx" and the complete bullshit spouted so often that makes no rational sense whatsoever.

D-Sport

And the cunt today who paid 3 grand for a 2002 Hyundai coupe with 180k miles on it and wanted 2500 in a trade when I can buy one down the road for 1500 to 1800, and wouldn't tell me why after only 3 mths he wanted rid of it and why there was no test on it, made zero sence

Psycho Warren

iTrader: (5)

exactly, theres bartering down a price, and there is complete fucking bullshit the two are quite different.

D-Sport

Hey why are you agreeing with me? Lol, aren't you the one born to " Internet bitch" with me?

Lmfao

Psycho Warren

iTrader: (5)

hahahahaha no just because we disagree on some issues doesnt mean we do on all

RC4

mate ,there is e46 m3,s for under 7k now,i,ve seen your advertisment on here(a while ago) and on ebay and it is a very nice car but at the end of the day people see it as a 99' 323 with a changed engine and m3 bits and for 6k i dont think it will sell good luck though mate as i said above not slating the car it is a nice thing but not 6k nice

1.9 xr2 on 40's

i sold an rs1600i rep xr3i once, bottom end knocking its tits off (at a genuine 60k!)

guy drove it home to devon (7+ hrs)
i advise him to buy a rope at the earliest convenience
trouble it i doubled my money but that car was mint and almost everything rs16 so worth a fortune now

xr_craig

iTrader: (2)

I always seem to end up with the fucking muppets wanting my cars too.

Obviously i understand the need to haggle and anyone who doesn't is a bit soft, but don't come and be a complete twat. If you haven't got the money don't waste my time!

xr_craig

iTrader: (2)

I thought this too.

No offence because it looks a nice car but i'd personally not pay anywhere near that for it.

Shings

Yeh but so what..

I try it on and you say no - I move to the next person who says yes. It's no skin off my nose.

AND conversely...

When I sell a car I deal with every dick head under the sun until I sell to the sensible person who offers what I want.... and every dick head before the guy who buys my car simply moves on to the next person who might sell their car cheaply.

It's the way of the world.... I'm not sure what you're all complaining about to be honest - like I said. You must all pay asking price all the time.

Anyone want a FRS - 67k - you're for Ł10k LOL

JRG1

It's the idiots who phone or text and the 1st question is 'what's your best price'?

FUCK OFF......you ain't even seen the car yet and you're trying to haggle!

Boils my piss

Shings

I don't do that....

Derby_Gav

Might be that I have been lucky but the last 3 cars and 3 vans I have sold have all been pain free. Most haven't even wanted a test drive!

Selling another van soon so hopefully my luck will continue!

gingeRS

thats the mk1 focus RS forum on the RSOC BB isnt it

MikeyRobbo

Foreigners when selling anything are the worst, they literally do want everything for free! We sold a Bora last year to a polish guy, came from London and had the cheek to ask if he bought it could he have Ł50 off for juice home!

James B

You should of said Ł50 wont get you back to poland now fuck off back to your car wash.

D-Sport

It would on Ryanair, strap the car in the overhead locker

MikeyRobbo

I'd have happily kept the car and bought him a plane ticket for poland