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aw · 08-04-2020 07:45PM

Mad_Mike wrote: »

Seems it's not just Donedeal where this amazing CASH stuff is on offer either!
300 offer on car listed for 850, but it's CASH, so it's gotta be worth it right?

Reply: Sounds like a fair deposit, when will you have the other €550?

Mad_Mike · 08-04-2020 07:59PM

To be fair, I'm all for a lad chancing his arm and trying to grab a bargain, but messages like that just really piss me off!
I could almost guarantee that the same lad wouldn't even turn up if I replied with ok, or if he did, I'd have the usual "further bargaining"!

Shefwedfan · 11-04-2020 09:43PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I get annoyed when you're looking at a car for sale, and they take about a dozen photos circling the car, but never take a photo of the inside.

Thats because the inside is like a f**king pig house and they havent bothered to get it cleaned iyet

Rows Grower · 11-04-2020 09:46PM

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Thats because the inside is like a f**king pig house and they havent bothered to get it cleaned iyet

Of all the animals you could have chosen a pig is the one animal that keeps it's home cleaner than any other and will **** as far away from it as is physically possible.

Shefwedfan · 11-04-2020 09:53PM

Rows Grower wrote: »

Of all the animals you could have chosen a pig is the one animal that keeps it's home cleaner than any other and will **** as far away from it as is physically possible.

:P

lalababa · 12-04-2020 02:59AM

Offering cash is a very very old tactic used when buying from dealers who had their own HP set up also/and paying cash could mean full payment...i.e. not a deposit with the balance paid at some future date. Nowerdays this does not apply as the dealership does not care about the former.
Somewhere many years ago an article or two advising car buyers about getting a discount by offering cash, or cash now, has made it's way into every twopenny internet advice article about buying cars.
Cash now is an absolute given in a private sale of lower priced cars. Anyone who uses cash, or cash now in a serious way is annoying. But you will get seasoned buyers/dealers who know it is a joke saying it as well (usually with smile & wink)because it has become so widespread as to trigger an emotional kneejerk response by inexperienced (and some times experienced!) sellers making them feel they are just about to have a lump of lovely cash in their paws. Hhmmmm.....cash.

Rows Grower · 12-04-2020 10:09AM

lalababa wrote: »

Offering cash is a very very old tactic used when buying from dealers who had their own HP set up also/and paying cash could mean full payment...i.e. not a deposit with the balance paid at some future date. Nowerdays this does not apply as the dealership does not care about the former.
Somewhere many years ago an article or two advising car buyers about getting a discount by offering cash, or cash now, has made it's way into every twopenny internet advice article about buying cars.
Cash now is an absolute given in a private sale of lower priced cars. Anyone who uses cash, or cash now in a serious way is annoying. But you will get seasoned buyers/dealers who know it is a joke saying it as well (usually with smile & wink)because it has become so widespread as to trigger an emotional kneejerk response by inexperienced (and some times experienced!) sellers making them feel they are just about to have a lump of lovely cash in their paws. Hhmmmm.....cash.

The only alternative to cash used to be a cheque, that's why cash is the favored way of paying.

johndaman66 · 12-04-2020 11:01AM

I always took cash to primarily mean a sale not involving a part exchange. Yes, can also mean cold hard cash as in €50 notes as opposed to cheques or bank drafts but in the context of buying and selling cars I would firstly assume that a sale not involving a part exchange is being proposed if cash is ever mentioned. It would have in the past what the most of the people who mentioned it to me during the sale was alluding to.

Rows Grower · 12-04-2020 11:04AM

johndaman66 wrote: »

I always took cash to primarily mean a sale not involving a part exchange. Yes, can also mean cold hard cash as in €50 notes as opposed to cheques or bank drafts but in the context of buying and selling cars I would firstly assume that a sale not involving a part exchange is being proposed if cash is ever mentioned. It would have in the past what the most of the people who mentioned it to me during the sale was alluding to.

Very few people try to offer a car as part payment for another one on DoneDeal.

italodisco · 12-04-2020 11:08AM

I had a classic up for sale not so long ago for 3k, priced to sell as similar were up for 3.5k online.

Done feckin deal, the worst site I ever used!

I got a barrage of calls and text from folk in cavan for some reason too which was weird, 'How's it going, oh love the car but look she needs a bit of work, I could pick her up today with the trailer and put 900 your way'

Another classic was ' 1100 offered, I'd have to get her towed up home' when the advert clearly stated the engine had less than 20k miles from new and had been rebuilt and ran like a dream.

Then there were at least 15 who came to see it and offered well below half the asking. I got to a point were I told 2 lads to get the f&€k out of my garage now before I boot you out.

Never. Ever. EVER again will I use done deal!!!!

colm_mcm · 12-04-2020 11:21AM

Donedeal is the public basically.

Rows Grower · 12-04-2020 11:23AM

italodisco wrote: »

I had a classic up for sale not so long ago for 3k, priced to sell as similar were up for 3.5k online.

Done feckin deal, the worst site I ever used!

I got a barrage of calls and text from folk in cavan for some reason too which was weird, 'How's it going, oh love the car but look she needs a bit of work, I could pick her up today with the trailer and put 900 your way'

Another classic was ' 1100 offered, I'd have to get her towed up home' when the advert clearly stated the engine had less than 20k miles from new and had been rebuilt and ran like a dream.

Then there were at least 15 who came to see it and offered well below half the asking. I got to a point were I told 2 lads to get the f&€k out of my garage now before I boot you out.

Never. Ever. EVER again will I use done deal!!!!

Just wait until you try sell something on Adverts.ie and you get people offering you "something from my ads?" which might be anything from a used coal bunker in good condition to a boat that needs some TLC.

10pennymixup · 12-04-2020 11:23AM

italodisco wrote: »

I had a classic up for sale not so long ago for 3k, priced to sell as similar were up for 3.5k online.

Done feckin deal, the worst site I ever used!

I got a barrage of calls and text from folk in cavan for some reason too which was weird, 'How's it going, oh love the car but look she needs a bit of work, I could pick her up today with the trailer and put 900 your way'

Another classic was ' 1100 offered, I'd have to get her towed up home' when the advert clearly stated the engine had less than 20k miles from new and had been rebuilt and ran like a dream.

Then there were at least 15 who came to see it and offered well below half the asking. I got to a point were I told 2 lads to get the f&€k out of my garage now before I boot you out.

Never. Ever. EVER again will I use done deal!!!!

Problem is the buyers not the medium. Be it facebook, adverts, donedeal or others you'll still get the feckin idiots, chancers and would be Boycey's no matter what.

In times past people had to pay money to read ad's in the local papers, buy n' sell etc. With the advent of the internet you just get more tyre kickers unfortunately.

johndaman66 · 12-04-2020 11:24AM

Rows Grower wrote: »

Very few people try to offer a car as part payment for another one on DoneDeal.

Yes, while that is true for the very most part what people are saying when they are offering you cash is that they are not offering you another car as part exchange for the one you are selling. That is what people mean in their own heads anyway at least (rightly or wrongly so). If you will they are just confirming that they are not offering you another car as part payment.

johndaman66 · 12-04-2020 11:38AM

italodisco wrote: »

Another classic was ' 1100 offered, I'd have to get her towed up home' when the advert clearly stated the engine had less than 20k miles from new and had been rebuilt and ran like a dream.

Presumably he meant he would need to get her towed up home as he did not have insurance arranged for the car though as opposed to any reason he was implying the car itself would not make the journey? (I am open to correction here).

Anyway that kind of crap makes my blood boil. Offering you a paltry sum compared to asking price due to their own misfortune of not being able to arrange insurance, don't have a driving license yet, their montly pay has not come through yet, kids going back to school etc etc etc,

California Dreamer · 12-04-2020 11:44AM

And still no actually time wasters have come on to this thread to explain why they do what they do.

Is it mental problems? Bored? No friends? Cronic masturbater?

mfceiling · 12-04-2020 11:48AM

About 5 years ago I sold my van on donedeal.

Van was 11 years old with 200k miles on the clock.

Described it honestly...paint wasn't great, bit of rust on the arches and intermittent engine management fault.

Had it up for a grand. Phone rang after 5 minutes. "Would you take 850 cash in the next hour"? I agreed happily to get rid of it and to save any messing. The lad arrived in 45 minutes then spent 20 minutes trying to beat me down. Moaning about the paint....eh yeah I mentioned that in the ad.
The phone rang with another lad so I took it in front of him and basically told the lad on the phone he could come down and drive it away for 850.

The other lad nearly dropped his wallet trying to get the money out then.

Complete muppet.

Hoffmans · 12-04-2020 11:56AM

Dimdealers waiting for the price on their lemons
https://i.imgflip.com/213ss9.jpg

johndaman66 · 12-04-2020 12:12PM

California Dreamer wrote: »

And still no actually time wasters have come on to this thread to explain why they do what they do.

Is it mental problems? Bored? No friends? Cronic masturbater?

Well you can be sure they won't proclaim to be a time waster anyway, thats for sure. Rather their take on it will be that there are an insane amount of unrealistic sellers out there asking crazy money for a car that will need major work or is only almost ready for the scrap heap.

I mean if I was looking for to buy a car and I came across one that I believed to be asking double its value I would just let it be and move onto the next ad. I wouldn't call or text the seller with the expectation that he would readily accept anywhere near half his own asking price.

M7roadrunner · 12-04-2020 12:17PM

It’s not just DoneDeal and Adverts tho,
I sold a Motorbike a few years back, and offered it on Ireland’s most popular motorbike forum for sale first, because I reckoned there would be less messers on an enthusiast forum.

A regular poster rang me from the forum mad for the bike, and kept asking me what my lowest price was. I told him the usual “sure come and have a look at it first” and he said he would be taking the bike away with him so he needs to have a price agreed.

I gave him a price and he comes down the following Friday, has a good look around the bike, and tries to haggle again.

I took the bike off the stand and started to push it back into the garage and he nearly has a conniption, asking me what I was doing, sure were only having a haggle.
I reminded him that he had already agreed a price over the phone and at this stage he was only wasting my time and his.

I eventually sold the bike to him but it ended up being the messiest most convoluted sale I had ever done, and I will never offer, or enquire, about another motorbike on that forum.

He was a grade A dumbass.

I sold an e34 sport during the last recession and had a guy ring me twice a week to tell me he really wants the car, but wouldn’t come to look at it until he had the asking price to give to me. I must of taken 7 or 8 calls from him while I was selling.

italodisco · 12-04-2020 12:22PM

Oh yeah adverts is quite funny with the 'swap for something in my ads'

You check their adverts and they're selling a ton of broken crap found in bins and skips!!

pcardin · 12-04-2020 12:49PM

italodisco wrote: »

Done feckin deal, the worst site I ever used!

Never. Ever. EVER again will I use done deal!!!!

I know it's only 2020 and modern technologies are still something so hard to chew by some...but do you realise that DoneDeal is only an internet platform for ads. So you know, they do not select customers for you, they don't screen or interview them callers before they are given permission to ring you. No website does.

bigroad · 12-04-2020 01:23PM

Before done deal was here a lot of trade was through the buy and sell paper ,I think it was yellow from memory.
That had all the same buyer and seller problems as listed above.
It was even worse in some ways as few advertisements even had photos.

Plumbthedepths · 12-04-2020 01:27PM

bigroad wrote: »

Before done deal was here a lot of trade was through the buy and sell paper ,I think it was yellow from memory.
That had all the same buyer and seller problems as listed above.
It was even worse in some ways as few advertisements even had photos.

A friend told me his father used to buy the Buy and Sell every week( yeah it was yellow) and randomly ring sellers could be a car, bike , parrot. Didn't matter he did it for amusement. Dickish way to carry on tbh, but the DD behaviour nothing new.

bigroad · 12-04-2020 01:38PM

A lot of these time wasters are showing off to others in the background .
They are playing themselves off as the big wheeler dealer making handy money on the side when in reality they don't even have the price of a pint in their pocket.

B.A._Baracus · 12-04-2020 01:47PM

Interesting thread some great comments

To chime in with the 089 talk... Lyca is also 089 and you can grab as many sim cards as you like all for free. Just need to top up by at least 5 to activate the sim. So it can be a dodgy number.

Re: the sort you meet?
I think there are a lot of fantasists out there. You know, wannabe motor wheeler dealers who watched too many TV shows.
Because as someone else said you could play their game and accept any ridiculous offer and they still wouldn't meet. So that's fantasy.

B.A._Baracus · 12-04-2020 01:59PM

bigroad wrote: »

A lot of these time wasters are showing off to others in the background .
They are playing themselves off as the big wheeler dealer making handy money on the side when in reality they don't even have the price of a pint in their pocket.

Reminds me when I was on Dublin bus coming home from work about two months ago.

4 lads were sitting behind me Loud as hell so couldn't help but listen to their garbage. They were all around 18-20. Two of them were Pakistan and the other two were African. You could tell from what they were saying the African lads didn't know the Pakistan lads.

All 4 of them are putting on "from the hood" accents :pac: so one of the Pakistani guys whips out his phone and shows the African lads pics of a car. You can buy it tonight. 600 euro. Proceeds to "ring up" someone to confirm its still for sale.
It was pathetic :pac: all for show, from all 4 of them. Does it have this? Does it have that? From the African lads Lol. None of them had a pot to piss in.

Pakistan lads get off. Black guys start laughing. They immediately lose their "hood" accent and get full on Nigerian. They think their deadly.

All of them were a bunch of wa*kers :pac:

Brian Scan · 12-04-2020 02:08PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Reminds me when I was on Dublin bus coming home from work about two months ago.

4 lads were sitting behind me Loud as hell so couldn't help but listen to their garbage. They were all around 18-20. Two of them were Pakistan and the other two were African. You could tell from what they were saying the African lads didn't know the Pakistan lads.

All 4 of them are putting on "from the hood" accents :pac: so one of the Pakistani guys whips out his phone and shows the African lads pics of a car. You can buy it tonight. 600 euro. Proceeds to "ring up" someone to confirm its still for sale.
It was pathetic :pac: all for show, from all 4 of them. Does it have this? Does it have that? From the African lads Lol. None of them had a pot to piss in.

Pakistan lads get off. Black guys start laughing. They immediately lose their "hood" accent and get full on Nigerian. They think their deadly.

All of them were a bunch of wa*kers :pac:

How is that relevant?

Shefwedfan · 12-04-2020 02:16PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Reminds me when I was on Dublin bus coming home from work about two months ago.

4 lads were sitting behind me Loud as hell so couldn't help but listen to their garbage. They were all around 18-20. Two of them were Pakistan and the other two were African. You could tell from what they were saying the African lads didn't know the Pakistan lads.

All 4 of them are putting on "from the hood" accents :pac: so one of the Pakistani guys whips out his phone and shows the African lads pics of a car. You can buy it tonight. 600 euro. Proceeds to "ring up" someone to confirm its still for sale.
It was pathetic :pac: all for show, from all 4 of them. Does it have this? Does it have that? From the African lads Lol. None of them had a pot to piss in.

Pakistan lads get off. Black guys start laughing. They immediately lose their "hood" accent and get full on Nigerian. They think their deadly.

All of them were a bunch of wa*kers :pac:

Great story, so vivid

kenmm · 12-04-2020 02:18PM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

They're poor people prefixes.

Ye and second hand 1450€ car is for the execs..

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