DP says I screwed up. Please tell me I didn't!

[mamateur]

Or as you wish. DP has had a knackered old van parked in the city where we used to live for over a year. He nearly got around to selling it about six months ago, was offered 550 (it had 6 month's MOT). Since then, I've had to renew the tax which had actually run out (I spotted the letter in the post) as I could have been towed. But he didn't quite manage to get round to closing the deal, and the van continued to grace a private road (no doubt annoying the neighbours as it's not exactly a chariot of gold). We just moved and need a dishwasher and tumble dryer, so I said to him I would sell it for him and use the money for that. He agreed. The MOT runs out at the end of November. I stuck it in a car mag for 400. He was a bit cross and said it was worth 500 which it probably is. I reminded him that was with 6 month's MOT. Then I got really bad flu so instead of going up there on the train (£20) and hanging around with DS (14 months and steaming around like a train) for viewings, and with one week before the MOT expired, I mailed the keys to a guy who sounded serious about buying it. He went round, started it with jump leads (not be driven for a year) and offered me 350 because someone has daubed graffiti over one said and it will cost a bit to be resprayed.

So I just told DP I got 350 and he hit the roof.

AIBU?

Tell him he is correct and you are also going to buy a very expensive vibrator to add to the list of your machines - so you don't lose out on anything important whilst he realises that he is BU and appologises (because you obv won't be needing him for those duties under the circumastances)

At least you sold the thing, if someone has already put grafitti on it the next thing would be it would be stolen, then he would have got nothing for it. Or it could have been towed away by the police and he would have had to pay to get it released! You have done him a favour by solving the problem for him. If he wanted more for it he should have sold it himself.

YANBU. He didn't manage to sell it at all for over a year, in which period it has been costing you money, and was about to incur an extra cost for MOT, tax and insurance.

If it was so bloody easy to sell for £400/£500 then why hasn't he managed it in the last 12-13 months?

Yes, exactly what Dittany said. It's all very well agreeing with you, but why on earth are you with someone who considers basic domestic chores 'yours'?

At this point I would fucking kill him.

It's £350 what's he moaning about, he didn't sell it, you did. It was worth sod all for what he was doing about it.

You need a tumble dryer and dishwasher with a little one around, you don't need an abandoned vehicle.

Tell him to grow up.

YANBU

He is being a sexist prat. You got £350, which is more than he did, and avoided tax/insurance/mot.

Whyhave what sort of machine can I get for £350? I imagine something with quite a few bells and whistles...

He's not adverse to domestic chores, when asked.

I am going to dismantle his body parts for easy disposal when he next takes a break.

Very good point that once the car has been vandalised it can be towed.

He just always has to be right. If it had been the other way round, he'd have said, oh fgs mamateur, it's only £50 etc.

I might add, if we're going back to the fifties, it's a shame he can't put the coat rack back up the hallway and I have to pay a diy man, ooh, £50 to do it this afternoon, eh!

Tell him to piss off.

Then go out with your DC and spend the money on fripperies.

Lazy git should be grateful that you bothered.

You didn't screw up because he didn't get round to selling it. Maybe someone would have offered £450, maybe they wouldn't...

YANBU. He should have done it himself if he thought he could do any better.

I am sure it would be impressive!

YANBU.

Tell him to get f*cked.

I bet he didn't have a washing machine in mind when he was moaning about the money, he'd have spent it on himself, I'll wager.

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lol @ expensive vibrator. pmsl

I shall squander it all on some really fancy nails for his coffin

The buyer got a good price, thats for sure.

He probably wont have it resprayed, he just used that as an excuse to knock the price down.

TBH I would have put the van up for 500 because buyers always do this. You would have got 450 for it.

YANBU though, becasue DH didnt get off his backside and handle the transaction himself. Cant blame him for being a little sore however. Someone just took his van away at a steal.

He's bloody lucky that someone didn't steal his van

ccpccp have you seen the van?

ccpccp - and you know this how?

ccpccp, if it was worth £500 with MOT and tax how on earth is it magically still worth £500 when it's six months older, hasn't been driven for months and is going to incur the cost of an MOT (£30 plus whatever is actually needed to get it to pass) and tax (at least £68.75 and possibly more depending on when it was registered) within the next week?

mot is £50

he sounds like he had it all set out perfectly in his head

He just didn't do fuck all

he;ll get over it

I still reckon you should serve his tea on a dirty plate and give him clean but wet clothes

Someone selling a car with a week's MOT is almost advertising that they think it'll fail. I think £350 is a good price.

I thought when I read in the OP that you mailed the keys that the bloke had just taken it and not paid anything.

Most of the people who rang offered 300 or so. I know I probably could have got 500, if I advertised it for that, if I'd gone up there, got it started with jump leads myself (I have no idea where to put them and in fact would have to buy them, plus I don't have a car).

At a distance, for no fuss, i think it was a fair deal. I bet he does get it resprayed, he said his mate had offered to do it for 15 quid, but there was quite a lot of welding to do too, hence the 50 off he wanted.