Car sold after sale made..?

KingIsabella

I put this up in motors but thought i might get a better sense of things here. Last week went to buy a used car in dublin, Trade of the the old car was accepted, a price was agreed, hands shaken, deposit taken, due to be collected this thursday and told that the car was ours and would be taken off the internet as it was sold. Just got a call from the dealer saying that he has sold the car to someone else now.

We have a receipt which says Receipt of sale of said car signed byu the dealer with warranty details and the car details dated and signed. My question is did the dealer have the right to sell the car after we were given a receipt confirmed the sale was made? Does this not make it our car and not his to sell??

Any information is appreciated before i lose the cool.

Cowboys....fec*"n cowboys.

coylemj

If you have a signed receipt that is effectively a contract committing them to sell you the car. You could see a solicitor and attempt to get an injunction against the dealer preventing him from selling the car but that would probably be an expensive option and I'm guessing that you're dealing with an independent asshole dealer so the value of the car isn't huge and it probably isn't worth going the legal route.

Reloc8

In order to get an injunction you'd have to satisfy a court that damages were not an adequate remedy, which is unlikely unless there was something unique about the car you were purchasing.

If you go out and price a load of similar cars and your cost to change, and this is higher than what you were going to get from this numb nuts, you have in theory a case for payment of the difference between his agreed price and your cost to change elsewhere. If this is not a significant sum, its not worth your while.