To rant about the bastard who sold us this car

[DextersMistress]

Bought a car on eBay last week. Dp and I went to collect it, looked it over, paid cash, all good. Drove it to the nearest garage to get petrol and realised one of the back doors wouldn't open.

Called the guy back straight away, he apologised and said it's probably the child lock stuck in the middle. Said either take it back to him the following day and he'll fix it, or take it to a garage and he'll pay. Dp said he'll try a garage that afternoon and phone him back.

Now the fucker seems to have changed his number, and isn't at the unit we picked the car up from. I'm now wondering what else might be wrong with the car

Have messaged him on eBay but no reply, will have to open a case although I'm not sure we'll get anywhere as we happily paid and drove off. Grrr.

Drharleen, why never again re selling a car on eBay?

I have an 8yo clio, low mileage which has been a lovely car until recently. But the gearbox has gone.

Not worth us getting it fixed but money to be made by someone who can fix it themselves. I was thinking of putting it on eBay....

Disappointed, there are lots of traders selling cars on eBay.what would you report him to hmrc for?

I'm actually tempted to bid high and win them all so he has to relist

Understandable, but then he'd report you as a non-payer - and if you'd done it on several items you'd lose your ebay account

Reporting to HMRC might be a better bet, but good luck with finding out what his real identity is

those operating as car dealers have to register as such, both with ebay and in Real Life. Nothing wrong with being a car dealer but pretending to be a private seller and dealing cars IS crooked.

order put it up on ebay as 'spare or repair'. Check ID of anyone interested, make sure they sign the V5 and send your bit off.

do NOT put it on gumtree, you'll be plagued with scammers.

but TBH it is probably scrap.

order just because the guy who bought it was a knob and it put me off.

We recenty got a new(ish) car from a garage, but our old car was an 02 reg, had a few problems and the MOT was due. I didn't fancy putting it through the MOT to try to get it sold. We might have made our money back after the MOT and fixing a couple of other niggles with it. We found a company on line that offered us £80 for it. They came with one of those trucks you see with 3 layers of cars on and then let me know that after looking at it they would sell it at auction as it was still road-worthy. Sorry can't remember the company, but I imagine its a bit like we buy any car type of thing though they offered us money and there was looking over the car and then lowering it. Id use them again in future.

I might have only got £80, but I didn't have to fork out a couple of hundred on fixing it up so I saw it as gaining £300 (I had saved up for the MOT anyway as wasn't sure if we were getting the new car)

If he's a dealer posing as a private seller, you should report him to Trading Standards. In law you've also got the right for a car you buy from a dealer to be a described and of satisfactory quality (even if they're pretending to be a private seller) - strictly speaking you're entitled to your money back or a repair. Easier said than done when he's obviously as dodgy as they come, but it's another thing trading standards would take a dim view of.