(Crap, title should read regarding, not from! lol)
I'm curious to know if a situation that I am in, is something that can be taken to the small claims court;
2 days ago my partner and I went to view a car, which cost £3,400, and we placed down a £150 deposit, once we had put down the deposit, we were givena reciept containing the VIN Chassis number and the full registration code of the vehicle. As we had those numbers, we decided it would be a good idea to do a HPI check, to check that the vehicle had a clean history, sadly it did not and was involved in some sort of accident last August, resulting in a Category C write off from the vehicle's insurers at that time.
Obviously this affected our opinion of the car that we had looked to buy, and we decided to not go through with the sale. Although the reciept suggests that any termination of the contract, would mean a loss of the deposit, this vehicle clearly had a storied past that the owner neglected to tell us about, even claiming 3 previous owners, whereas the HPI check stated that there were 7 owners, before the current, which would have made us the 9th owners, not the 4th as we were originally told that we would be.
Needless to say, i find it very unfair to lose our money over false advertising and a salesman blatantly hiding things about the car that any upcoming owner would feel is something they would need to know, as it may affect thier desire to buy it, as it did ours.
Any advice, aside from get the hpi done first, which i know was a STUPID mistake.
Saying that we've now found and pre-paid for one with lower mileage, nicer looks, no dints and dents and cost about £400 less, so might be as well to draw a line under it and call it, not sure what'd be best.
I'm curious to know if a situation that I am in, is something that can be taken to the small claims court;
2 days ago my partner and I went to view a car, which cost £3,400, and we placed down a £150 deposit, once we had put down the deposit, we were givena reciept containing the VIN Chassis number and the full registration code of the vehicle. As we had those numbers, we decided it would be a good idea to do a HPI check, to check that the vehicle had a clean history, sadly it did not and was involved in some sort of accident last August, resulting in a Category C write off from the vehicle's insurers at that time.
Obviously this affected our opinion of the car that we had looked to buy, and we decided to not go through with the sale. Although the reciept suggests that any termination of the contract, would mean a loss of the deposit, this vehicle clearly had a storied past that the owner neglected to tell us about, even claiming 3 previous owners, whereas the HPI check stated that there were 7 owners, before the current, which would have made us the 9th owners, not the 4th as we were originally told that we would be.
Needless to say, i find it very unfair to lose our money over false advertising and a salesman blatantly hiding things about the car that any upcoming owner would feel is something they would need to know, as it may affect thier desire to buy it, as it did ours.
Any advice, aside from get the hpi done first, which i know was a STUPID mistake.
Saying that we've now found and pre-paid for one with lower mileage, nicer looks, no dints and dents and cost about £400 less, so might be as well to draw a line under it and call it, not sure what'd be best.
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