Vehicle traded in - prospective buyer has contacted us

Itchytrigg

Itchytrigg

Itchytrigg

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Last month or so we traded in wife’s old car and got a new one. Out of the blue she’s had a random Facebook message asking if the cam belt had been done.

As far as I can think, nobody outside the dealer should have had her name. So I don’t know how some rando has it in relation to the car without having seen the old v5.

GDPR breach no?

For context, it’s being sold by some other company and not the one we traded it into, and many many miles away from us.
 
Ha, nope we’d never had it done but it was done prior to us buying it about 7 years back.

I was trying to think if there was a real legitimate reason that I’d missed for her details to be shared as it’d been a while since I last sold/traded a car but couldn’t think of one. I can only assume they have the original v5 and the potential buyer just remembered the details or took a pic.
 
We’re not going to reply to the guy at all. It’s not even the dealer we traded it to that is selling it.

Log book 100% didn’t have our details in it. I do realise now we did make a mistake that the dealer should not have taken the full v5, wasn’t really thinking about too too much.

I’ve reached out to the sales guy with a politely worded “wtf mate”.
 
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The car was empty and it was only a replacement log book with no details as we’d lost the original.

It don’t think this was intentional by the dealer, but her name and address have been shared somehow, my guess being the v5, given the dealers gave us a huge speech about data privacy (including a print out of their cookie policy lol) I’d expect them to perhaps apply it.
 
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