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Does everyone turn from a normal person to an absolute chode!
So far I've seen:
CAT D.
Cars that jump 5000 miles overnight and change seller.
Pics of a different car x 2.
People unwilling to make any effort to sell their car to me.
Adverts where the spelling and general advert is so bad it screams don't buy me!
Sounds like the ad I put out.
Wasn't for a mint condition fiesta complete with numerous dents by any chance?
No mainly clio's and focus's.
Can't believe people are posting pictures of random cars, that bonkers.
Does everyone turn from a normal person to an absolute chode!
In my experience, yes.
Yep, single worst job in the world is buying a used car. A lot of people are either stupid, liars or down right crooks!
Some of the examples seen recently on our quest for a nice Mini Cooper S would try the patience of a saint! The winner though was the guy who, when we turned up to view, had the rear seat out, fuel filter out, siphoning the remaining petrol from the tank with a hose pipe into plastic buckets.
Hmmm, I'm suddenly feeling like a reasonable human being after reading some of this stuff.
No wonder the guy that viewed today seemed pleasantly surprised, description in the advert is accurate shocker.
I even took photos of all the dents and scratches to email interested parties so they don't waste time only to be put off but battle damage.
Logs on to autotrader to change photo for perfect condition Fiesta ST.
my personal favourite, car price states £999, then you look at the blurb and somewhere it will say "car is actually £5999" all so they can get it to the top of the list
yeah thats a classic dogbert, along with listring all the features then hiding cat d in there next the space saving spare wheel. It's really odd as if I was looking to spend £5999 I'd look for cars at £5999 not £999!!
All that stuff is effectively goober filter, if those guys put up better ads you'd waste more time going to see their ****boxes whereas when you see those ads you just move on.
I think last time round I ended up only viewing 4 cars out of about 5000 matches 😆 1 was shagged but the other 3 were all good honest cars. I probably filtered out a stack of other good cars mind but as long as there's one left, at the right price, mission accomplished.
Anyway piemonster tell me about your fiesta ST? Link to ad please?
this is the main reason when i go shopping for a car i do not have a type or model in mind.
I filter on price , then advert quality, then milage , takes whats left - decide what i could be seen driving in ... research faults/ insurance , go for a look
how ever the last time i spent more than 2k on a car i went to a dealer........and spent 3.5k. Only bought one crapbox this way and it was the car the girlfriend reallly liked so i bought it for her - 1.4 golf , despite knowing the engines in em are terrible - lost 1500 quid on that one
One mint condition Festa RST
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Actually. Sold the car this morning, the guy who viewed yesterday now thinks I'm a choad for not selling to him for a worse deal.
Slippery bloody business, glad VAG go on forever so I don't have to deal with this stuff for a good long while.
It's a fricken nightmare, I've just had to endure this, due to an idiot writing off my perfectly good but old focus. There didn't seem to be any private sellers (traders just pretending) or if there were they wanted more than top book prices, a complete joke.
Went to see a car at the weekend. The dealer said "if you want to look under the bonnet, I'll just have to fetch some pliers to get it open."
He didn't seem to understand why we turned round and walked off.