something interesting i have been thinking about and it has to do with the types of people you deal with when selling your car. has anyone here ever said no to someone buying their car?
whether it be coz u had a bad feeling about them or u didnt think they were the right ones for your car. might sound abit silly but something to think about.
lohoon ·
yea Sam,
I sold a XA GT Falcon and I knocked back the first three people for various reasons.There was a couple of P platers that had the money but no respect for any car let alone a classic with plenty of horsepower.
I ended up selling to a Pommy guy who for the first coupla minutes walked around patting it and talking to "Her"!
When i took him for a drive all he could say was"OOooh she fooking goes dooon't she".(in a English accent of corse).
So it took a little longer but i got the money I asked and wasn't worried about the new owner wrapping it around a power pole.
VDUBXTC ·
just sell it and be done with it.
As soon as you start the next project you will forget all about it
kroozzn63 ·
yeah man sell sell sell they might suprise u , BUT aslong as they dont make a convertable out of it, for there daughter
pete wood ·
VWFOOL wrote:something interesting i have been thinking about and it has to do with the types of people you deal with when selling your car. has anyone here ever said no to someone buying their car?
whether it be coz u had a bad feeling about them or u didnt think they were the right ones for your car. might sound abit silly but something to think about.
someone on this forum asked me to take my subaru out of the buggy and then he'd buy it...yeah right.:o
I think it's your car and you can be as choosey as you like. If you think it's not the right car for them, don't sell it. The car is good enough that you'll get what it's worth eventually anyway. Besides, at the price your wanting it's a bit of a bargain. :thumb
mscabrio ·
If I didn't feel that the person didn't have the right karma for my car then I wouldn't sell them it, simple as that
ctefeh ·
These two guys rolled up and started bagging my ask price and telling me how loony I was expecting to get rid of it. They were just plain old nasty and hostile and I suspect trying to bully me into giving it away to them.
Bad enough I get the attitude, worse when it's on your own front lawn! I told 'em I'd take my chances with wrecking it and see ya later.
Funnily enough made much more wrecking it than I would've got if it was together.
ctefeh
twoguns ·
several times!
Brookie ·
Also knocked buyers back who would not apprecate or did not understand type of car.
When we had resto shop many moons ago a guy came in and asked could he drive a car we had nearly finished all bar fitting tailgate. It was a van. We siad OK and he took it for run and came back past workshop at about 120k slammed on brakes and then drove into shop.
He said I will pay you xx dolllars cash right now as it is and will take it with me. I am buying it for my son.
We had quick conference and 10 minutes later off he went with transfer papers and we had $800 more than we intended to ask.
t2 ·
if you need cash who cares if someone fronts with notes waving in your face its hard to say no, you cant control the future even if you sell it to someone you think fits the profile
Joel ·
a good mate of mine bought a really original old granny 68 semi auto of a little italian lady who owned it since the begining of time she told him to look after it and started crying as we left
then 2 years later in a split second decision sold it at valla to andrew dodd
does anyone here that knows him know how the cars going?
its a dark blue 1500 semi auto with a white interior rego was AMK something
Joel
jeremy ·
if I only sold my cars to the 'right' buyer they would all still be sitting in my yard.
Show me the money and the car's gone.
Once I choose to sell a car any attachment to the car is gone, and I want the $$$$$$
Jeremy
shaihulud ·
I sold my first car, a 1948 Morris 8 tourer to a woman who wanted a cheap shopping jeep. Two weeks later it was written off by a truck. It was not her fault. You have no control over what can happen to it.
A while later I refused to sell my mother's Vauxhall Wyvern to a man who out bid some other people who were there before him and when they had gone, he started to haggle me down from his offer. I called him a choice name in front of his wife and stormed off. I still feel that I was justifed in refusing to sell it to him.
Scarlet ·
I think its important to be extremely bloody well choosy......
A few years ago now...... My nicely restored tiel & alabaster '59beetle ended up in flames.... I sold him to this art student, who I worked with at this pub, she just loved the look...... took the time to show her around the car, gave her some lessons on the idio's of him....I gave her the number of a good vw mechanic.... and she goes to a cowboy mechanic, who must have sabotaged him....
rocks into work one morning, tragically hungover clutching her video camera.... hooks it up to the AV system and proceeds to torture me with the cruel death of the Leonard Tiel mobile....... she reckons she had just enough time to gather her stuff, camera included, all she could do was stand back, film it and cry
I had strong reservations at the time of selling, and was crushed to have my intuition confirmed.... felt bad for her, but there was nothing I could do
She told me later on she had the burnt wreck in her backyard, and was going to turn him into bits of furniture for an arts project.... never got to see the results
So do a survey! get a background check! do a DNA test! 😬
PrettyBlueBug ·
I wouldn't hesitate in saying no if someone wanted to buy my PBB but I felt they wouldn't look after her.... not that I'm ever going to sell it! :P
With a classic car, I think most people sell them and hope to still see them on the road, not wrapped around a pole.