My eBay advert for a broken car - is it good to go

jpaul said:
since you have said it runs smooth when warm with traction off, not sure as a buyer I would want to sign this until I'd had it a few days.
I would find it draconian - was the wording recommended elsewhere ?

... however despite signing this, if he drove off , and next day, for example, cooling system failed, he would have some comeback ?
and, he may well remark such a scenario, before handing over money.
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I am not going to let someone take my car without signing a receipt.

It thought it was a pretty standard way of selling a car and yes I reviewed a few sample receipts online. It is "sold as seen" and "spares and repair" so no, they wouldn't have any comeback. Which I thought was normal for a private sale. If the transmission did fail they could take me to court I suppose to decline the sale as "not accurately described". Although me not mentioning a big issue such as that would conflict with the "spares or repairs" nature of the sale? No idea about that process but it shouldn't be needed as the car is accurately described!
 
If it drives and still has an MOT, why don't you just off load it to webuyanycar?

Heck, they would give you £750 for it, identity a few niggle when you turn up and drop it down a bit but still, you would get more then £500 and no come backs!

Let them deal with it.
 
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I added knocking engine, rust on both wings which WBAC classified as "severe" and parking sensors not working which probably did the trick ;)

Anyway it is a bit late now its getting sold/ won tonight!
 
I sold my 330i 91k miles. 6 owners for 2.4k. No receipt and the lad didn’t even inspect the engine. Only because he was happy the trip he made wasn’t wasted as I described the car to the the t. No receipt was given as I had all the correspondence of the car via mobile messages.
 
this scam bidding was discussed before in general, since you can't automatically block zero bidders....

can you write in a subsequent relist 'zero feedback bidders will be cancelled (or contact me if genuine)'
and manually cancel anyone who breaks that a long time before bidding ends.
 
If it helps... I sold my old 325ci with an overheating problem a couple of years ago and at £1k advertised privately I had literally 35+ phonecalls in one afternoon at work.
 
Right I've put it up on gumtree for about 3 minutes and already had two Londoners call coming one wanted to pay a £30 deposit and have me take it off gumtree already, one openly said its for breaking in Europe, no MOT no V5 no problem. Is that normal for broken cars like this!?

Whatever he is coming tomorrow (no deposit) to have a look but I don't want to / won't shift it until the ebay bit is sorted and he knows this. (have to wait 10 days for the bot to not respond, probably clicked the wrong option...)
 
Cash, sign the correct part of the V5 with his details, receipt to state it's going to Europe, good to go.

My dad sold an S320 with a blown engine and some guys came over from Europe (can't remember where now) with a van and a trailer to pick it up.
 
One of my parents friends had a Golf 1.4TSI which blew up (classic cam chain issue IIRC) and put it on Gumtree for £500 and within a day 3 Polish lads turned up with a trailer and took it away with no issues!
 
Sorry to hear about this, I did anticipate problems when reading this thread a while ago. I tried selling my last car via ebay and had trouble.

At least you've got decent responses on your private ad, I'd just get rid and not wait for eBay.
 
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