Auction fever: Arse!

Despite saying I wouldn't bid more than £300, I appear to have bought
this van for £500!

<jubba wubba mooma bling bong>


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2498203183

 

You silly fucker!
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H'mmmm for £500 you can do a lot better, especially as the seller
doesn't have a V5 for it.

Run away.

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Or plead insanity. Or plead that your son/dog/pet monkey placed the bid.

 

A.Lee says...

I agree. People are giving away vehicles like that for nothing. You can
put the 500 quid you'll save towards the insurance on something worth
owning.

 

That's another 18 quid gone.

 

I don't know any of them if they are!

It doesn't look the best I'll admit but I'm going to have a look at it
at least. I'm going on my bike so if it turns out to be shit I'll say
the money's in my bike and make a hasty getaway.

Hey, check this out. This was no part of the listing but came though in
the winner's email. What do you think of this?:

THE WINNING BIDDER SHOULD CONTACT ME WITHIN 24 HOURS OF AUCTION ENDING.
A DEPOSIT OR FULL PAYMENT WILL BE MADE WITHIN 5 WORKING DAYS AT CLOSE OF
AUCTION. THE ITEM WILL NOT LEAVE MY POSSESSION UNTIL FULL PAYMENT IS
RECIEVED. NO WARRANTY! NO RETURNS! AS IS! REMINDER ALL BIDS ARE LEAGALLY
BINDING SO UNLESS YOU BID TO BUY, DON'T BID. TIMEWASTERS WILL BE TRACKED
DOWN AND SUED AT ANY COST!!!!!

 

100 quid according to auction .....

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Occasionally, I'll be consistent

 

Whinging Courier was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Nice colour :-/

 

Contact him quick and tell him to offer it to the 2nd bidder as you've
just had to shell out to cover the bail for your brothers GBH charge.

 

Jesus... walk away, ffs!

If you want to play the game, you can, if you (or someone that you take
along with you to 'collect' it, who also knows what they're looking at),
can't find anything major up with it mechanically, get out of it by
disputing his claim that, and I quote, 'The van looks and drives good' -
they always look better in the pics than in real life, and that looks a bit
shite paintwise and dented floorwise even in those piss poor pics, with your
emphasis being on the poor paint rather than the more obvious floor.

Run the engine... pull the oil filler cap off - if there's a fair bit of oil
smoke wafting up, you can claim "it's breathing a bit heavy mate"... in
doing which you're implying the lump is a bit too shagged out for your
liking - might just be blocked crankcase breathers if it is wafting a lot,
but you're adamant it's well tired, *right*!

Anyway, to avoid any aggro ebay wise, if he gets very shirty and it's not
actually that bad a motor but you still don't want it, offer to pay his
listing fees, in exchange for no bad feedback either way.

<Gratuitous Spam>

That aside, if you do decide to walk away, my L reg Montego Countryman 2.0
TD Estate might be up for grabs soon - just spent £110 (OSF swivel-joint and
anti-roll bar drop link), getting it through an MOT (11 months of which is
left), and fitting a decent set of injectors at the weekend, as one decided
to fubar itself last Friday, causing much carcenogenic smoke to emanate from
its arse as I dropped it down to get up a hill... anyway, it's a seven
seater in 'Nightfire Red', taxed til January, with sensible miles (101k)and
loads of history, and it'll be having a filter service in the next few days
as well.

Oh, and I have a good spare engine and gearbox kicking about too, if anyone
(paging all Land Rover owners) is interested.

</GS>

 

....including six months tax @ £90.75

 

Whinging Courier was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Well, that's a verbatim quote of his payment instructions....

Sometimes it pays to read them.

 

Fortunately, you've got a pretty good chance of pulling out of this one.

He says 'I can't see any rust on the body' - it's an old Escort van, it
_will_ have rust, and lots of it. Take a magnet and go looking - you'll
find plenty there. Don't be surprised if the sills are totally gone, but
patched over with filler - I managed to get an MOT on my MkIV Escort by
liberally coating the sills with thick black underseal, even though the
bit where the B-pillar joined the sill was almost non-existant.

 

VBG

 

for a V5?

 

I went to look at a green one today that was in autotrader. That looked
clean, it had a "hi-fi" etc, etc but when I got there it was the worst
pile of shit imaginable. I'm almost convinced it wasn't the same van!

Yeah, there are other tests I'm going to do but not because of this,
just as a matter of course: worn screws on the dash, welds under the
floor and round the windscreen, do the panels match with no gaps etc
etc. If it's that bad I'll find something and not just because he's
Welsh.

That's not a bad idea. I just phoned him about the V5 and he mumbled
something about taking the chassis number down and putting it on the
V11? form to get tax that way. This was one of the things I wasn't happy
about actually, he really didn't sound like he knew what he was talking
about in this regard.

Sounds nice but I want something like a large estate or a car derived
van. A seven seater will almost uninsurable, I'm sure.

How much, out of interest? I'm unlikely to buy it BTW, I'm just curious.

 

What, you mean they were on the listing?

<checks>

Shit.

 

<Makes notes>

 

Oh ****!
Keep your helmet on.