Considering buying a Used car - seller wants to come to me

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The price was already too good to be true. The original ad on gumtree didn't specify that it was cat d - though the seller confirmed when I asked him the 'usual questions' directly? He was not forthcoming about the legal ownership status of the vehicle, though I had asked him this in the same SMS as a bunch of other questions which to be fair he did answer some of. I'm not against cat d per se, just want to know what I'm getting in to...

He gave his location initially as a vague area the other side of the city, but on trying to set up a viewing of the car he is now insisting that he will come to me.

Am I right in just walking away from this right now, so I can focus my car purchase efforts elsewhere? :)

"If it's too good to be true..." :/
 
What's the worse that can happen when you buy a stolen car with cloned plates and the engine implodes 20 minutes after this guy vanishes back to the other side of the country with your cash.
 
My engine blew up on my car so bought a cheap micra with 12 months mot off gumtree. Met him on the end of a housing estate, presumed it was his home. Was only a 400 quid car so didn't think much of it, as long as it ran i was desperate.
When i went to tax it, it turned out it wasn't mot'd. Contacted the original owner and some lads had bought it off her with no mot. So thry forged a fake one and added 200 quid to the price for idiot me to buy.

Would never buy a car without signing papers in the sellers home now
 
Just tell him like it is. You need to see the car at his place of residence so you can socially profile him to determine whether you want to buy their car or not :p
 
Tell him you're no longer allowed visitors due to "that last incident" and the cost of body removal without the authorities knowing is very very expensive.
 
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