Gosh this made me blink

[french]

Mercedes SL55 AMG | eBay

 

[Conquistador]

£15,400 buy it now?! Good luck with that

 

[NDFR]

He's got bids so let's see.

 

[Howard]

One's from his mum.

I put the ad through my translator and it came out with roughly ...

'Old dog sl55 , moody body kit , lots wrong with it but I will attempt to pass them off as nothing to worry about with highly suspect hpi history ... '

 

[a111r]

Nice estate, his garage door speaks volumes.

 

[Wheelsnuts]

Apologises for only 4 photos. Did his camera battery fail as well?

 

[jotter22]

Nice estate, his garage door speaks volumes.

And how is this relevant?

Tony.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

-hasn't wanted for anything

-Please be aware that if you HPI this Vehicle it flags up that its stolen, however if you read further down on the HPi report its NOT STOLEN

-Battery warning light comes on at ignition from when I replaced the battery just needs reset by Mercedes

-Consumers electrics offline, common when not driven over a few weeks just requires a good 30-40min drive to rectify.

-Car has been sat for 3weeks.

-No test drives I will drive unless cash paid upfront and v5signed.

 

[a111r]

And how is this relevant?

Tony.

Buying an AMG privately with a likely good outcome should not entail visiting council estate locations.
Sorry if that offends.

 

[Nero]

Buying an AMG privately with a likely good outcome should not entail visiting council estate locations.
Sorry if that offends.

Your myopic view sucks. Judging people by where they live is wrong, its marginally one notch up from judging someone by the colour of their skin.

 

[french]

Its an appalling attitude to have.

 

[jotter22]

Buying an AMG privately with a likely good outcome should not entail visiting council estate locations.
Sorry if that offends.

yes it does offend but if i end up selling an AMG to you i could put it on the drive of the 3 bedroom bungalow i own in Bexleyheath instead of the 3 bedroom ex council house in Gravesend? The car is still the same! so hopefully your ignorance will get you hung.

Tony.

 

[Steve320]

Buying an AMG privately with a likely good outcome should not entail visiting council estate locations. Sorry if that offends.

I certainly don't subscribe to that view, however, I get the sub conscious link that as human beings many might have by judging the environment and linking to a car purchase, high end quality sports car or not.

That said, aren't we all also being judgemental by assuming that the guy is in effect hiding the truth by listing what appear to be easy to fix defects, and maybe, honestly highlighting what was an administrative error totally outside of his control?

From the rest of the advert my assumption is that the seller seems decent enough, and the car has full service history with MB or indie specialists?

 

[Steve320]

EDIT: Duplicated post.

 

[John]

Regardless of what the owner may or may not have, it certainly doesn't look like much money is spent on that car...

"Battery warning light comes on at ignition from when I replaced the battery just needs reset by Mercedes."

Just get it done then - one thing off the list.

"Consumers electrics offline, common when not driven over a few weeks just requires a good 30-40min drive to rectify."

Just get it sorted then. You want top money for it but are not willing to prepare it to a standard to warrant it.

"No test drives I will drive unless cash paid upfront and v5signed."

Lol. How to make an already-impossible task much harder.

 

[french]

TBH Steve the condition of the car to describe it as a high end sports car is stretching it a bit, I posted it as (IMO) its a waste of a good car...in other words its been barried ??

 

[E55BOF]

And how is this relevant?

Tony.

At risk of attracting opprobrium, I have to say that the somewhat neglected appearance of the house, presumably the seller's residence, outside which the car is pictured would not fill me with confidence that the car would not be similarly (un)cared for. The ad reinforces that suspicion.

In my (quite extensive) experience of buying cars - all right, mostly old bangers - there are ALWAYS minor faults the ads do not mention, and when the ad does mention a couple such, implying they are easy fixes, which the owner has not bothered to have sorted... Barge poles come to mind.

 

[a111r]

At risk of attracting opprobrium, I have to say that the somewhat neglected appearance of the house, presumably the seller's residence, outside which the car is pictured would not fill me with confidence that the car would not be similarly (un)cared for. The ad reinforces that suspicion.

That was my point which you have made rather more diplomatically.
My :fail, wasn't meaning to upset Council house residents.