so i'm browsing pistonheads and wondered if you lot would buy from this guy?

Duke · 3 Jun 2007 at 21:16

I'd never buy anything from a poor advert like that.

L0rdMike · 3 Jun 2007 at 21:24

The_One said:
Is it me or is the rev counter needler broken

No he prob really killing his car so he looks well cool init. :cool:

Zefan · 3 Jun 2007 at 21:25

The_One said:
Is it me or is the rev counter needler broken

VTEC just kicked in yo!

The_One · 3 Jun 2007 at 22:07

No wonder its just had an engine rebuild if herevs it like that

Gaijin · 3 Jun 2007 at 22:25

Zefan said:
VTEC just kicked in yo!

VTEC appears to have kicked in and died it would seem.

Malachy · 3 Jun 2007 at 22:43

The_Dark_Side said:
that's one of the things i like about you.
you tend to hold back your true feelings rather than tell us what you really think.

the bling rings stop the tarmac rash bro!

as for the advert no way, probably because i have a hatred towards people who can not make an effort to construct a decent sentence, my English is not the best in fact it's terrible but i know most things i type reflect me so i make an effort.
Why cant this person?
it's the same with how people talk :/

lordrobs · 3 Jun 2007 at 22:54

Gaijin said:
I've got plenty of mates who cant spell and/or use grammar. Doesn't mean they aren't decent, honest blokes.

Exactly.

I know of a guy who works as a site laborour and is honest as the day is long. He works crap hours, crap work but he pulls in big money and spends it on what he likes. That includes a nice car which is serviced to the letter.

He fully admits that he doesn't have to write from one month to the next and says he can't remember the last time he had to write "something proper"

Any car that he was to sell would be mint but if he tried to write a For Sale ad it would probably be of a similar standard.

Personally though it would put me off. Theres far too any cars out there to go for one with any concerns about the car or previous owner(s)

Gaijin · 3 Jun 2007 at 23:07

Someone does read my posts occasionally then

And there I was thinking everyone ignores my pro VTEC spam

BenST · 3 Jun 2007 at 23:07

lordrobs said:
He fully admits that he doesn't have to write from one month to the next and says he can't remember the last time he had to write "something proper"

Bit of a difference here though. The seller has clearly typed in a hurry and without checking over his ad has posted it up. He clearly knows how to spell the words "done" and "had" but has not bothered to notice his mistakes. It just smacks of laziness and I would be very put off by such an advert.

The_Dark_Side · 3 Jun 2007 at 23:22

Malachy said:
as for the advert no way, probably because i have a hatred towards people who can not make an effort to construct a decent sentence, my English is not the best in fact it's terrible but i know most things i type reflect me so i make an effort.
Why cant this person?

Malachy said:
it's the same with how people talk :/

oh the irony.

j/k.

Fr0dders · 3 Jun 2007 at 23:27

Gaijin said:
I've got plenty of mates who cant spell and/or use grammar. Doesn't mean they aren't decent, honest blokes.

However, yes, i'd be on my guard. But as long as the paperwork corroborated what he said, the test drive was ok, and the car checked out - i dont see why not. You could even ring up Norris Designs and see if they corroborate the story.

T'would be silly to not buy from someone solely because they cant spell as well as you

agreed

just because a person is illiterate doesnt make them un trustworthy

personally id ring and speak to the person in question. Its a lot harder to lie on the phone, than it is on paper, and you can ask probing questions about the cars history

if he doesnt know the answers, then you can just walk away. But if when you ring up, he's a real enthusiast whose loved the car, but just writes in text spek, then your not going to walk away from the car on those grounds are you ?

Dogbreath · 3 Jun 2007 at 23:36

Gaijin said:
T'would be silly to not buy from someone solely because they cant spell as well as you

I agree, the seller might be a perfectly decent person and the car might be pristine, but the reaction I posted is what would be going through my mind when if I read an advert like that. I'm really not a snob or elitist etc. but I feel that if the seller has put as much effort into the car as he did in writing the ad, then it's not a good omen. If he's dyslexic, or just not too hot in the written word, then simply by getting someone else to word it for him he could widen his potential market audience considerably.

Avalon · 4 Jun 2007 at 02:43

Being brutally honest unless i was specifically looking for a highly rare item i'd move on to the next advert simply because of the wording of the advert. I'm clearly making a judgment that's wrong and not giving the benefit of the doubt and i'm probably a worse person in some peoples eyes but I avoided the semi clothed woman staggering down the middle of the road with a knife a few minutes ago on the assumption she probably wasn't out to butter anything and i couldn't see a sirloin.