Had my car on Pistonheads and Ebay for just over a month, quite a lot of interest and many messages of great car, keep it.

 

Decided because it may take a while to sell, I wouldnt tax or mot, keep it SORNd for now. If anyone is interested, they could view the car, if interested, I would MOT, TAX and Insure the car, so it could be take for a test drive.

 

Received call last week, someone interested, explained the above, no problems. Dad and his son came to view, car was for dad, son races a RX7 car, so knows jap cars. Totally loved the car, amazed with the work, the receipts. Decided they wanted it. They said do not worry, we know someone with a transporter, so we will just trailer it away. Will call you Monday, once we have spoken to guy with transporter.

 

Got call Monday, all well, wanting to come and view car again. No problem. Call on Wednesday, to say will come Saturday with wife, maybe give car quick drive on road outside. Said no problem, but worried then because of car isnt inured, or Taxed. Decided, I would insure car and if possible get it MOTd and taxed for tomorrow. This way the guy could have a proper test drive and make sure he was fully happy with everything, unfortunately I wasnt able to get it all sorted for tomorrow.

 

Tried calling tonight to explain I wasnt able to get everything done, but no answer from his phones. Later this evening recieved a call. It was from the Dads business partner! Saying they were going to view a car in London on Sunday. Which is around 4.5k. I said no problem, but this guy who hasnt even seen the car, said, but if you were interested, we would give you 5k!. I told him I was insulted by this. He said the car in London is just like yours but half the price. Explained, there are not many with the amount of money gone into them.

 

I more annoyed that the guy himself didnt call me to tell me, but for someone else to call, then to offer a stupid amount, really made me angry.

 

In the meantime I had emailed everyone who had been interested in the car, even someone who emailed me earlier from ebay, telling them that the car was potentially sold. One potential buyer was from Sweden, who was looking into booking flights.

 

Anyway, I will start a new For Sale thread, once I have had the car MOTd and Taxed and removed my plate. Hopefully in the next few weeks.

 

The guy may be on this forum, or maybe in the future. I hope you find a nice car, but just think how you handled things wasnt great.

 

Barry.

I'd be annoyed if i were you, hate time wasters.

 

Hope you find a buyer soon :)

I find it very stressfull selling via Ebay...it seems to be full of chancers with no money who go through the buying process as something to do for entertainment:censored:.Recently sold a boat which reduced me to a hatred for the human race for a week after the listing ended and ended up dropping my price just to rid myself of bellends asking stupid questions and consistantly being let down.

He'll probably be back in touch after he's seen the dog in London and realised what's what ;)

Got to agree Ebay is a nightmare for selling cars, i used to trade in second hand cars and had lots of people wasting time either not turning up, haggling on the price etc.... give it up in the end as it was costing a bit to advertise.

 

Hope you do eventually sell the car and if he does come back to buy the car I would let him come and view again, take him for a test drive and then say its not for sale just to waste his time.

hy baz could i pop down and have a look at it if that ok mate thanks

The guy contacted me through Pistonheads. But have had some silly messages from ebay, saying great car, I have no money, but do you want a Vectra!. To be honest, I wouldnt of minded if the guy had called me just to say, he wanted to see another. Its the fact his business partner called me, then insulted me with the offer.

Nathan,

 

Give me a week or two, I will get the car MOTd and Taxed and get it to Phil at Blackmoor, he can give it a once over. Then that way if your seriously interested, I could take you for a test drive. I will be in touch with everyone who had shown interested next week, to let them know what has happened and that the car will be fully ready for sale within the next 2 weeks.

 

Barry

defo want to come and have a look i have been speaking to daz out of 300 club about all the time at jae lol that guy just sound like a you know what in words he dose now what a stunning zed it is i reely would love to come and see it cos i do appricate what you have done in looks and performance thanks mate nathan

Sold my brothers car for him on ebay, after three auctions and none paying bidders not turning up two Romanians finally turned up. They won the auction for £1400 but turned up with £800 and said take it or we leave negative feedback and say the car is shit. I hate ebay.

Sold my brothers car for him on ebay, after three auctions and none paying bidders not turning up two Romanians finally turned up. They won the auction for £1400 but turned up with £800 and said take it or we leave negative feedback and say the car is shit. I hate ebay.

 

a kick in the b0llocks and take the neg feedback would of been my answer...dont mind dropping prices but from 1400 to 800 is taking the piss

a kick in the b0llocks and take the neg feedback would of been my answer...dont mind dropping prices but from 1400 to 800 is taking the piss

 

Should have kicked them in the nads!! :hammer:

Sold my brothers car for him on ebay, after three auctions and none paying bidders not turning up two Romanians finally turned up. They won the auction for £1400 but turned up with £800 and said take it or we leave negative feedback and say the car is shit. I hate ebay.

you should have told them where to go, because if you expain what happened to ebay, they would have removed the negative feedback and possibly banned the fraudulant buyer.

I do agree that selling on ebay can be a pain in the arse, although there are ways to get problems sorted out (although these too can be a pain in the arse).

I told them where to go! They sent me messages on ebay after saying the same thing and threatening to burn the car, I shown these to ebay and they still refused to remove the feedback!

Sorry to see this mate.

do you know when i can come and have a look at it mate i am excited cos she a beutifull car mate thanks nath

Hate to say it but selling cars on ebay is a nightmare they are normally sheds that just need to be got rid of speaking from past experiance lol

try some of the performance sellers !! piston heads is good but there are others