How not to sell a car!

[chriswt]

Was looking on ebay to see if I could find a cheap XJS to tinker with over the winter and found this:

1989 JAGUAR XJ-S AUTO BLUE | eBay

Broken just about every rule:

1. cr@p pictures
2. Rubbish description
3. Agressive-ish (well a bit annoyed anyway)
4. Awful grammar and spelling

...and to top it all hes called Kingbodger. Bit like buying a house from someone called Cowboybuilder.

 

[trapperjohn]

Number plate is a bit of a FAKA too.

 

[Dieselman]

Seems a fair enough advert to me, bad grammar but OK. He says the car is all good.

He's fed up with the typical ebay time-wasters.

 

[developer]

Not good.

I always loved the rear screen shape on XJS's - so typically Jag on a car missing so many of the (then) Jag styling cues.

 

[chriswt]

Seems a fair enough advert to me, bad grammar but OK. He says the car is all good.

He's fed up with the typical ebay time-wasters.

Fair point, may be I was a bit harsh but when you're desperate to sell a car you need to entice people not scare them away with the usual 'time-wasters' rant.

I just can't work out why he's been selling this for a while yet still hasn't bothered to pull the car out of the garage to take a picture!

 

[Dieselman]

Fair point, may be I was a bit harsh but when you're desperate to sell a car you need to entice people not scare them away with the usual 'time-wasters' rant.

I just can't work out why he's been selling this for a while yet still hasn't bothered to pull the car out of the garage to take a picture!

Possibly due to having a work injury, which is why He's selling it.

 

[chriswt]

Possibly due to having a work injury, which is why He's selling it.

May be but he's managed to squeeze into the car to take a strange array of interior shots.

 

[John]

"you snooze you loose"

Says it all really.

 

[Deleted member 55947]

I see the seller is from Consett so it's just possible he's the most articulate person living there. If you view it make sure you have your thermals on, it snows up there in June!

 

[Dieselman]

When these were new, a friend had an identical car, it looked great but being a 3.6 was only OK.
He used to be able to leave it anywhere when going clubbing with no problems, but it did break down a few times.

 

[NOMONEYBUTAMERC]

And its sold

 

[Dieselman]

He was right..You snooze, you lose.