woould you pay £xxxxxxxxxxx without seeing it?

The item description is part of the contract and if it's substantially false
than I would think you have grounds for null-and-void, or a counter-claim,
or something.

 

It's my understanding that the law makes no distinction between a verbal or
written contract; but proving it can be another matter - it only needs for
one party to lie, convincingly, under oath, and preferably have "witnesses"
who are similarly prepared to perjure themselves, and you're buggered.

 

yes - thats exactly what i was pointing out. The seller hadn't made any
great claims about the Brough. Given that it was a 30K+ sale he
actually said very little about it, and as such it would be difficult to
show that the seller had intended to deceive.

Therefore, the buyer would have entered into a contract that it would be
very difficult to walk away from - legally.