Yawn! How childish bringing my car into it.
How you know know what my car looks like, and what that has to do with the car you tried to sell my friend i dont know.
Of course due to the fact i own an MR2, that makes me completely unqualified to comment on the condition of any other cars or even post on an MR2 owners club forum
As you've mentioned it though, with regards to my MR2, like i said to you at the time, its nearly 20 years old, has done over 130k miles and the bodywork is in better condition than that car.
It has less dents, less scratches, tread on all 4 tyres etc so i dont really understand how my car is
"a piece of
(profanity)" compared to the one you tried to sell my friend.
But this isnt really about my car is it? It's about you not being honest on the advert and the phone and telling my friend about the dents, scuffs and scratches, and the barely legal tyres.
You waited for us to turn up on a saturday night?? That's a bit of an exaggeration there as well, in my opinion 5:30pm is early evening.
You make it sound like we didnt get there till 10pm.
My phone call and text records show we left around 6pm.
Of course my friends tried to knock you down, the price of 2 good 18" tyres, because the rears would need replacing immediately, like i said in my original post.
Oh, and i've asked around and its seems you were wrong when you told us that all traders sell cars with nearly bald tyres instead of putting new ones on.
Even as a private seller i would make the effort to put new ones on or tell the potential customer that they would need replacing almost immediately.
Maybe i'm a mug, or maybe thats the way it should be.
We are not the timewasters.
Like i said to you on the day, you're the one who wasted our time.
You told us the car was in good condition apart from one dent on the door, and within 10 minutes of seeing the car we'd found plenty more problems.
It cost us all 6 hours of our day for the trip up there, plus petrol, all because you failed to mention all the other faults.
The other thing to consider is: If you failed to mention the ones we could see with a quick look around the car, what had you neglected to tell us about the stuff we couldnt see? Anything? Nothing? How can we tell? Which i why i told them to forget it and walk away.
In terms of the
"deposit" that never was, you are not entitled to it, at all.
The deposit was part of a verbal contract formed when you told my friend the car was in good condition.
If we had got there and it was in good condition, but she changed her mind and didnt like the colour, you
may have been entitled to it.
The situation was though.
.
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she didn't like bald tyres, dents, scuffs and scratches and cracked foglight, and you had failed to mention these at any point to my friends beforehand.
You were advertising the car with misleading information.
As this was done through an internet advert i'm pretty sure distance selling regulations come into force then, and as the consumer we have the right to cancel a transation within 7 days anyway.
The fortunate thing about this is that you weren't able to take the money off her card so my friend didnt have to waste more time claiming it back through the small claims court.
I stand by the comments in my original post, the car was advertised in a misleading way, both on the advert and over the phone, and the wording in your post shows your bad attitude in my opinion.
If you had been honest about all the faults, my friend wouldn't have bothered with the car, you could have sold it to any one of the other people who were interested in it, we'd have saved our time and money and everyone would have been happy, instead of having all this hassle.
