Just thinking, if someone has something on eBay, and is not what it is advertised as. IE a car advertised as 490bhp and once on a rolling road turns out to only have say 350bhp. If I bought it with my credit card could I instruct my card company to retrieve the money I paid and I get to keep the car? As it was a fraudulent transaction?

 

Was just thinking cos my mate had similar with a garage and ended up keeping the car and getting the money back he paid for it.

I think consumer law is tougher on a trader than a private individual.

 

Probably technically, yes you could, but making it happen could take some doing. (he guessed)

I know Top Gear did a piece on this, and basicley, it must be as what is advertised, as for getting your money back, and keep the car, I would'nt put money on that

here you go mate, read till u fall asleep.

http://www.dti.gov.uk/ccp/topics1/saleandsupply.htm

 

Basically the sale of goods act applies to traders and not private individuals so u would have to take civil action to reclaim your cash.

When you buy privately, the law says that you have fewer rights than when buying from a trader. The principle of 'caveat emptor' or ‘buyer beware’ operates. You have no legal right to expect the goods to be of a satisfactory quality. You are entitled, however, to expect the car to be correctly described. So, if the seller had claimed that it was in ‘excellent condition’ for example, then you might have been able to argue misrepresentation,

 

im not sure misrepresentation would cover bhp, and would that alone make you buy the car?

 

so i would say if you aint sure DON'T buy it

Thanks everyone, I'm not interested in buying the car, just wondered about the subject.

 

Thanks again you lot.

lol the complete opposite problem for me, i actually sold my missus's pajero on ebay

 

auction ended, within minutes they contacted me to say did i want a deposit

knowing the car was a bargain, i wasn't that bothered

so a week later nothing, so i checked out her user name on ebay, and saw she was bidding on another, so mailed her and asked her to let me know

if she didn't want it, i wasnt bothered, as typical a few locally have said said they wanted it,

 

heard nothing until the end of the other auction, then they said money was in my bank, and sure enough two days later it was there

 

now the fun and games, i think it appeared on a friday and they said they would get a haulage firm :rolleyes: to pick it up on the monday/tues/wed

so that has gone, then yesterday dinner-time an email to say the guy was picking it up last night, gets to 8pm and i mailed and said if he aint here in half an hour, im off out, no reply, so this morning i mailed to say WHEN they come i want 24 hours notice, STILL nothing

 

ive checked with my bank and bank transfer so everything is kosher, i just can't believe they havn't seen the motor, and paid the cash and two weeks later it is still here, and it wasnt just a few hundred, and the motor is no longer insured as i swopped her insurance to her other motor,

 

starting to piss me off now, as everytime i ask her a question i get no reply

as i also told her if some firm was picking it up i would still be sending the v5 to dvla, signed by me

 

some people have either got more money than sense, or somethings going on?

they do live over 200 hundred miles away, lol good mind to close me bank account and risk bad feedback :eek:

I hope its not a version of the scam where they overpay and say the vehicle will be picked up. You think you have the money but 2 weeks later its shows as fraud and your bank takes it all back. Meanwhile you are down car and whatever so called rebate you paid out. I'd want to see the whites of their eyes if I was you!

I hope its not a version of the scam where they overpay and say the vehicle will be picked up. You think you have the money but 2 weeks later its shows as fraud and your bank takes it all back. Meanwhile you are down car and whatever so called rebate you paid out. I'd want to see the whites of their eyes if I was you!

 

 

i was worried about that m8, but went into my bank, and the right amount was paid in and transferred from a barclays bank account, and they said it was kosher, also i would have thought if they were trying to scam me, they would have picked it up at the earliest opportunity?

strange some people, if it was me id want to see the car id paid so much cash

for, as above i could have misdescribed it to hell, (as it happens they've got a nice car)