Idiot car buyers - a rant

[ALFIE CONN]

I need to start looking on pistonheads!

Will have a butchers at my stock-book when I get in at 10 and gve you a shout.

Thank you very much for your phone call, you could not have been more helpfull

 

[x332race]

Been looking for a CLK 350 or 500 for some while now....getting frustrated with cars not being described correctly, log books/ service history missing, 1st aid kits missing (pet hate!!), pricing way over "book" values and private sellers expecting dealer prices.

In respect of main MB dealers, I have realised that I know more about CLK's than they do.....I have heard them come out with some rubbish over the past few weeks....their salesmen should be made to be members of this site...they may learn something about the product they are selling. Also hate it when cars are not removed from the website when sold.

 

[stevesey]

The famously touted advantage of the cover being with the member was that you were supposedly covered even if you were a hitchhiker in a stranger's car!

True - also AA cover extends to members "failure" as well the car they are travelling in - i.e. if you break a leg and can't drive they will recover the car.

 

[Big_Jon]

The idiot buyer steroetype has just left my site.

I have a cheapie Suzuki Vitara at £1995.

The guy walked in, looked at it, told me had had come from wickford and then said how it was the best he had seen and how he had seen crap for more money.

He had an R-Plate escort which he had been bid £300 on elsewhere. I bid him £500 so he was happy with that he said.

Anyhow, he then said what about discount for cash? I said there was nothing off as I was taking his p/x, servicing and testing the jeep and that he had already told me it was the best and a good price.

He then offered me £700 and his p/x saying that my jeep was well overpriced!!!

Oh well, off I go now, a pub beer-garden is beckoning as is my 2y/o who will no doubt spend so much time in the play area, that my beer will evaporate!

 

[Colin_b]

The idiot buyer steroetype has just left my site.

I have a cheapie Suzuki Vitara at £1995.

The guy walked in, looked at it, told me had had come from wickford and then said how it was the best he had seen and how he had seen crap for more money.

He had an R-Plate escort which he had been bid £300 on elsewhere. I bid him £500 so he was happy with that he said.

Anyhow, he then said what about discount for cash? I said there was nothing off as I was taking his p/x, servicing and testing the jeep and that he had already told me it was the best and a good price.

He then offered me £700 and his p/x saying that my jeep was well overpriced!!!

Oh well, off I go now, a pub beer-garden is beckoning as is my 2y/o who will no doubt spend so much time in the play area, that my beer will evaporate!

Not really a problem, just say no thanks. He may come back, or not. If you sell things you take the rough with the smooth. Sounds like a chancer, though...

 

[James Rothwell]

I had lots of comedy wasters in today. High unenjoyable!

 

[fyonn]

True - also AA cover extends to members "failure"

if my member failed, it wouldn't be the AA I called! (unless it was alcoholics anonymous perhaps!)

*ahem* I'll get my coat...

back onto topic, It does annoy me when dealers, esp main dealers don't know their product. I don't so much mind it with independants who might stock any brand of car, but if I walk into a main audi dealer and ask questions, I expect the salesman to know the answers without needing to refer to the book or computer. Okay, I'm not expecting a mechanic like in depth knowledge of how a DSG gearbox works, but I don't expect to know more about what options an A3 might come with than they do.

after all, don't they get sent on courses, and have all the brouchures and stuff?

dave

 

[Setanta]

Been on the buyer side of a host of clowns recently (both private and dealer) - with a Merc, and most of us on here are enthusiasts, their BS is just not going to hold water. Had my time wasted by two dealers in particular - one of them came up with such a load of nonsense to explain away the lemon that he was trying to sell that I was tempted to applaud.

From a sellers perspective, recently sold my LS - had a heap of interest in the car and yes, the usual morons trying it on, but had it fairly priced, it had a full history, MOT etc etc, was exactly as described and got £50 off my asking price to the first fellow who came to see it.

Be upfront, honest and the deal will be done and both parties can move on - whether buying or selling.

 

[219]

...getting frustrated with ...... 1st aid kits missing (pet hate!!)

What's the problem ?

Buy a new one from dealer £££

unopened ones on eBay or from breakers for peanuts .

 

[x332race]

What's the problem ?

Buy a new one from dealer £££

unopened ones on eBay or from breakers for peanuts .

Just shows a lack of care from previous owners in my opinion...if 1st aid kit is missing, what else has been neglected or is missing??

 

[EDZ649]

I agree with most of what you guys are saying, however when I was looking for an SL to buy at the back end of last year I had spotted one on fleabay that had been for sale for a few weeks at £5500 on a clasified ad with best offer.

At the time I couln't get along to see it so when the ad finished I rang the guy, who was obviously a dealer because he asked which car was I talking about, to arrange to go and have a look. He then said to me so that you don't waste your time please don't come and have a look and offer me less than £5500 as Im not in a hurry to sell and I've had plenty of interest, (bearing in mind it was on a best offer clasified ad and it had been up for sale for over a month!)

So I said well I've got some others to look at and would give him a call if I still wanted to go and look. The next day it was back on ebay at £6000!

Needless to say I didn't bother to go and look!