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Buyers not paid for oven!

139 replies

Un4732 · 16/05/2025 10:20

Hi,

Small thing but really annoying. Home buyers agreed to pay for freestanding oven which I left. Not much - market second hand was £350-400 and they pushed me to £200 - annoying, but saved me moving it. But they have not paid a week later!

Was a rushed completion and only arranged last few days via (useless) estate agents as solicitor said not part of their remit.

Now what? Shall I go to their solicitors? They knew what they were doing I think!!

OP posts:
LoveWine123 · 16/05/2025 10:40

Go collect your oven

Apollo365 · 16/05/2025 10:41

LoveWine123 · 16/05/2025 10:40

Go collect your oven

This!

BobbyBiscuits · 16/05/2025 10:45

Surely you now don't need it. If you had to take it away, store it and then try and sell it to someone who's got a van to transport it, it would be a massive hassle for you? I'd ask them again but then after that probably just forget about it. Unless I was literally on the bones of my arse.

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 16/05/2025 10:46

If it wasn’t listed on the contract enquiries, the solicitor has nothing to do with it.

Gardendiary · 16/05/2025 10:49

Are you joking? I left this kind of thing for free. You would not have got £200 if you had marketed it, people can’t be bothered. When I was moving i struggled to free cycle a fridge freezer and a washing machine. I ended up asking the buyer if I could leave it with them which fortunately they agreed to, which saved me getting rid of it.
However, if you had wanted to sell it to them, this should have been sorted as part of the contract.

Original poster
Un4732 · 16/05/2025 12:14

True. It was only because it was a just a couple of years old and I was giving it to them for £350 as a good price and accepted £200 for hassle free life.

Now more the principle rather than anything and I left everything in such good order for them.

OP posts:
MeganM3 · 16/05/2025 12:18

Are you local? Pop round and ask for the money.
Or forget about it.
I thought the kitchen inc ovens were supposed to be left anyway.

rainingsnoring · 16/05/2025 12:22

I don't think it was fair of you to try to charge them for an oven.
You can either forget about it and move on in your new home or try to chase via the estate agent if you prefer.

YetiRosetti · 16/05/2025 12:24

Regardless of if OP should have charged, having agreed to pay for it they should pay for it. How was this arranged OP?

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 16/05/2025 12:41

If you have an agreement in writing even on email or WhatsApp [take screen shots] you can pursue this through small claims and create difficulties with their credit records.

Contact them, you expect prompt payment as agreed. Otherwise you'll go straight to small claims.

KievLoverTwo · 16/05/2025 13:48

If it wasn't added to the TA10 with an agreed purchase price (at least, I think that's where these things are meant to go), your conveyancer is right to wash their hands of it. If it was an informal agreement, I'd be tempted to pop a note through the door with 'here's my bank details for the £200 for the oven, thanks.'

Put it down to a learning experience if they don't pay.

wisteriadrive · 16/05/2025 14:07

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 16/05/2025 12:41

If you have an agreement in writing even on email or WhatsApp [take screen shots] you can pursue this through small claims and create difficulties with their credit records.

Contact them, you expect prompt payment as agreed. Otherwise you'll go straight to small claims.

Surely the costs of that wouldn’t be worth it for £200?!
I agree why didn’t you just leave it op, we’re leaving all our kitchen appliances and they’re not cheap !

housethatbuiltme · 16/05/2025 14:09

Our fixtures and fittings says the oven, curtains, blinds and light fitting all come include.

I wouldn't mind either way as we will be redoing the kitchen anyway but I certainly wouldn't pay £200 for someone elses second hand oven. The brand new one we are buying (specific non standard size to fit the new layout change) only costs £250.

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 16/05/2025 14:36

It's rather irrelevant what other people have left for free or what they'd pay for. An agreement was made and is now being breached.

orangedream · 16/05/2025 14:43

You were being unreasonable to make them pay anything for it.

wisteriadrive · 16/05/2025 14:45

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 16/05/2025 14:36

It's rather irrelevant what other people have left for free or what they'd pay for. An agreement was made and is now being breached.

Maybe they were too soft to say no?

housethatbuiltme · 16/05/2025 14:56

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 16/05/2025 14:36

It's rather irrelevant what other people have left for free or what they'd pay for. An agreement was made and is now being breached.

But OP hasn't actually qualified that an agreement was legally reached just that a discussion took place and she has taken this as an agreement. If it was legally agree price the money should have been transferred through the solicitors with the rest (the fact it wasn't seems telling).

Either way taking legal action for a 2nd hand oven that the sellers didn't even really want will cost her more money, stress and hassle to disconnect, retrieve, store and sell is utterly ridiculous (but thinking a years old secondhand oven is worth £400 in the first place unless its a bells and whistles ranger/aga is testament to an odd thought process to begin with).

Liondoesntsleepatnight · 16/05/2025 15:07

Were the buyers given an easy way to pay? I had similar but it was me that owed the money, about a fortnight after completing I received a call from the estate agent with their bank details. I had totally forgotten.

if you gave details via your solicitor ask them to give a friendly nudge? Or use estate agent route? Asking them as a favour

Hdjdb42 · 16/05/2025 15:29

I'd pop my bank details through the letter box. If I didn't hear anything for a week, I'd knock on the door and ask if they no longer want it.

Spirallingdownwards · 16/05/2025 15:34

housethatbuiltme · 16/05/2025 14:09

Our fixtures and fittings says the oven, curtains, blinds and light fitting all come include.

I wouldn't mind either way as we will be redoing the kitchen anyway but I certainly wouldn't pay £200 for someone elses second hand oven. The brand new one we are buying (specific non standard size to fit the new layout change) only costs £250.

Of course you wouldn't if you are happy with one that costs £250 new. But some are considerably more, closer to £1000. The fact is they negotiated a price of £200 so they owe it.

Contact them OP and ask for the £200 or if they no longer require it you will arrange to collect from them at a time convenient to them.

I sold a freestanding small range style one for £450 on FB when we changed our kitchen.

mrsm43s · 16/05/2025 16:09

It seems like you didn't correctly administer this so that the solicitor was aware of it and added into the balance due. Trying to get it now will likely be costly and time consuming.

As such, for the sake of £200, I'd probably just let it go and get on with life. Its a pittance in the grand scheme of the money involved in house buying and selling.

housethatbuiltme · 16/05/2025 16:35

Spirallingdownwards · 16/05/2025 15:34

Of course you wouldn't if you are happy with one that costs £250 new. But some are considerably more, closer to £1000. The fact is they negotiated a price of £200 so they owe it.

Contact them OP and ask for the £200 or if they no longer require it you will arrange to collect from them at a time convenient to them.

I sold a freestanding small range style one for £450 on FB when we changed our kitchen.

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Your attempted little dig means nothing, we are getting the one we NEED. No point paying £1000 for something that would be useless.

The fact is a negotiation is just that its a precursor and the OP and buyers weren't even on the same page. Its not an agreement or deal that has to be honored if it wasnt finalised, just because you talked about they maybe buying it means nothing.

OP needs some proof that the agreement was legally agreed not just 'discussed'. Otherwise they could have it disposed of and charge her for leaving it in the house.

Happyeachday · 16/05/2025 17:11

3 things come to mind.
You chase them up for the money.
You go get the oven back.
You let it go forget about it move on.

CopperWhite · 16/05/2025 17:22

Your attitude is a bit tight considering you didn’t want to have to move the thing. You have no reason to be annoyed that they pushed you down to less than market rate when you didn’t have to go to the bother of selling it on the market or storing it while it wasn’t in use.

Nor do you deserve brownie points for leaving the property you’ve just sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds in a decent condition. That’s just a basic thing you do if you’re not a dirty fucker.

You probably don’t want to go and collect it, but if you want to do something, that’s what you should offer to do. If you don’t want to collect it, then just let it go. They don’t want your old cooker that much.

Todayisaday · 16/05/2025 17:24

Contact them and ask for payment and say if thry now don't want it then you have another buyer and can collect it.