Buyers remorse
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He needed the log book so his mate would add it on a trade policy, I assumed his mate was a trader, the address he gave on the yellow slip was a car sales place in Kettering.
Sounds very peculiar. Did he tell you this after the dealer would be closed so it was too late for you to call them and confirm the story?
So you sold to someone who you couldn't understand, who took your log book, didn't give you his address and instead put down the name of a company which even if it exists may not have anything to do with the buyer?
Fire proof? Really?
Hopefully it is all genuine but personally I'd have refused to do that.
Respectfully, I took him on face value. I did not want to discriminate against him, he seemed an ok bloke. He had been over here 6 weeks, got a job at Landrover and needed transport. I took a chance I suppose but I'll phone the car yard if I can get a number from the details he left, he put their vat number down so it would not be that hard to chase. I'm sure it'll be ok.
AFAIK what you've done is correct when selling to a trader, you as seller only keep the yellow part and the trader takes the rest.
However the 'he's a Romanian' bit is a little concerting, I expect selling it into the trade means it may not get flagged by the APNR system.
The roads in Lincs where I'm from have lots of East Europeans driving without insurance,tax etc.
They buy cheap old cars often sold as spares or repair, don't register ownership, fill up and drive off without paying and run them until the cops catch them & impound the vehicle at which point they just buy another cheap car. It's cheaper than insuring and taxing etc.
However the 'he's a Romanian' bit is a little concerting, I expect selling it into the trade means it may not get flagged by the APNR system.
The roads in Lincs where I'm from have lots of East Europeans driving without insurance,tax etc.
They buy cheap old cars often sold as spares or repair, don't register ownership, fill up and drive off without paying and run them until the cops catch them & impound the vehicle at which point they just buy another cheap car. It's cheaper than insuring and taxing etc.
naivety needs to be punished otherwise we will breed a nation of weak, gullible, fools. Punish 'im for me Errol and then feed 'im to the pigs............
[TW]Fox;29845031 said:What?
This is not how you sell a car. YOU keep the log book and give HIM the new keepers supplement. Then YOU fill the logbook out and return it to the DVLA. This is how you notify them of a change of keeper - until that happens, you are still the registered keeper of the now uninsured car
Presumably you took the extra £650 before you did this?
I told him to listen to you
Do whatever Fox posts
Besides ringing the his insurance company i would also ring the DVLA and try to make them aware that he no longer owns the car and provide as much detail as possible, just to get it on record.
This trade policy crap is just that, as long as the registration shows on MiD and then if his number plate is scanned by police etc it will come up as insured, at least that's how i think it goes or similar, and then not be pulled over and done for no insurance, it is a scam that is growing.
Surely the entire point of a deposit is to secure whatever it is you're buying and is by definition non refundable as a sign of good faith in return for you not selling the car tot he next person to see it.
If a deposit is fully refundable it seems entirely pointless.
If a deposit is fully refundable it seems entirely pointless.
[TW]Fox;29845031 said:What?
This is not how you sell a car. YOU keep the log book and give HIM the new keepers supplement. Then YOU fill the logbook out and return it to the DVLA. This is how you notify them of a change of keeper - until that happens, you are still the registered keeper of the now uninsured car
Presumably you took the extra £650 before you did this?
Hehe...
I'm a bit shocked he actually expects it back, if I was in his position I wouldn't.
Bank the cash - to ensure it's legit then give him it back and reap the karma IMHO. Otherwise I'd expect this plonker to do something silly, since he's clearly a little dense.
Bank the cash - to ensure it's legit then give him it back and reap the karma IMHO. Otherwise I'd expect this plonker to do something silly, since he's clearly a little dense.
your car will now be on the front page of Sundays newspaper after having been used in a ram raid on a mayfair jewellery store.
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