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Sold Car , Problems with buyer today

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    #122
    goochy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,210 ✭✭✭goochy


    U repulse me ! You represent everything that's wrong with this country !


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    #123
    Bigus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭Bigus


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    That's not how that works here. In Germany maybe, because taxes there are levied to keep the country going, while here its a case of "ah Jaysis, I'll be shcrewing that bashtard for every cent I can get".
    The fact is that many people here are, well not quite crooks, but you certainly have to cut every corner to survive. Because the state knows that fact, taxes are deliberately set too high to compensate for the evasion. So with a certain level of trickery, you're actually paying the right amount. If you are now being German about it and declare even a penny found in the street to be absolutely sure the state gets every single cent you owe them, you are in fact overpaying. Actually forget it, the same goes for Germany and everywhere else. The state wants to screw you to the max and if you let them, you won't get any thanks or help when you need care in your old age and the home costs €3k a month. Fcuk 'em, they'll only piss it away on rich bankers, vanity projects and election promises.

    I had a respectable German buying a car for export to Germany and he wanted me to invoice it a 1/3 of the actual price , so it's naive to think the irish are the only ones trying to stroke ,

    come to think of it , the Germans were caught royally in Costa deal sol having bought property for up undeclared cash.


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    #124
    wilser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭wilser


    goochy wrote: »
    U repulse me ! You represent everything that's wrong with this country !

    Jaysis I was going to suggest he run for government. He'd get my vote anyway


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    #125
    power pants
    Registered Users Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭power pants


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Private sale tough ****
    Harsh yes but reality

    If you don't want to play with the big boys i.e adults then go to a dealer and pay a nice premium to him for the same car


    Indeed. I was going to buy a car of a forummer of here. Car looked alright had full service history and receipts for this and that. Fresh NCT on it too

    Price was a little high but I was happy to purchase but as im not a mechanic I brought it to a garage for them to check it out

    he took me aside and said the car is ****ed, run away.

    Sure enough the poster posted here about the catastrophic issues he was then experiencing.

    I dont for one minute think he knew his car was a lemmon but if I had bought the lemon it would have been my fault and problemand not his


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    #126
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,707 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    I sorta agree with Tfb here, if they are honest that they are selling cars on the side but just don't wanna pay tax;well that's between Revenue and them and Revenue are crazy powerful so its fair enough.
    but if they are buying sh!teboxes and lying then they are gombeens and are ripping off civilians, i don't like that but if you look after your own affairs,;bring someone who knows their stuff and do a motor check, all is good.


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    #127
    screamer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭screamer


    Latest on donedeal I've noticed is card with number plates removed or blanked out. I don't care how much of a bargain they might be id not even look into them.

    I can understand not wanting people at your house- pay you at 5pm and break in and steal it back at 5am. But wasnt there also a case of a guy in kildare who went to meet someone with his car and was beaten up and left in the side of the road and car stolen........ buying and selling cars is a minefield really.


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    #128
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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    #129
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,707 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    last guy i bought a car off brought two makes with him but to my home.
    all got on fine wrote up a contract signed the thing went to the post box together and took pics of each others licenses
    his mate actually bought my old car off me a week later
    you can tell a lot by meeting people


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    #130
    Valetta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    Patww79 wrote: »
    I blanked mine as I didn't want my plates cloned for speeding fines or M50 tolls. Once a caller seemed genuine I gave them the plate to run checks. Not fool proof but it helps.
    Don't understand this at all.

    Your car is on the road every day with the plates in full view.

    How is having them shown in an ad any different?


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    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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    #132
    Valetta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    Patww79 wrote: »
    It's different because I am not allowed hide them while I'm on the road but I am allowed hide them in an ad. That lessens the odds of a shady ****er seeing them and I'd imagine there's more shady ****ers browsing DD in a day than I happen to pass on the road.
    If someone is interested, in this day and age of free calls, they'll ring. I've no problem giving it out then.

    But.... Why would someone wanting to clone a car go on to done deal , when there's a whole world of cars out on the road with all the info there for free.


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    OldMrBrennan83
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    #134
    Harcrid
    Registered Users Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Harcrid


    Valetta wrote: »
    But.... Why would someone wanting to clone a car go on to done deal , when there's a whole world of cars out on the road with all the info there for free.

    Because when you clone a car you pick the plates from a car that's the same model year and colour as the one you want to clone. Easier to put those details into Done deal than wait outside on the road waiting for a car with the combination you need to pass.


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    #135
    screamer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭screamer


    Harcrid wrote: »
    Because when you clone a car you pick the plates from a car that's the same model year and colour as the one you want to clone. Easier to put those details into Done deal than wait outside on the road waiting for a car with the combination you need to pass.
    Wow amazing what lengths people go to. But cloning plates is a huge problem even if it's the wrong vehicle colour make etc if they issue points or fined you're screwed it's a court appearance to try prove it's not your car.......


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    #136
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,113 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Valetta wrote: »
    But.... Why would someone wanting to clone a car go on to done deal , when there's a whole world of cars out on the road with all the info there for free.

    Cloning reg plates, not the car. For example, scumbag wants to avoid paying tolls or for fuel at filling stations. Goes onto donedeal and looks up cars the same make/model, year and colour as his one. Goes off and gets plates made up and sticks them on his car. Off he goes up and down the M50 or fills up and takes off without paying.

    It's not 100% fool proof but it doesn't make life easy for these people either. And if a buyer wants the reg to run a history check on it, then no problem after a quick chat about the car with the seller. Or are people spending lots of money just doing history checks on cars they might have an interest in on donedeal without at least first ringing the seller and asking a few simple questions about?


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    #137
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Cloning reg plates, not the car. For example, scumbag wants to avoid paying tolls or for fuel at filling stations. Goes onto donedeal and looks up cars the same make/model, year and colour as his one. Goes off and gets plates made up and sticks them on his car. Off he goes up and down the M50 or fills up and takes off without paying.

    It's not 100% fool proof but it doesn't make life easy for these people either. And if a buyer wants the reg to run a history check on it, then no problem after a quick chat about the car with the seller. Or are people spending lots of money just doing history checks on cars they might have an interest in on donedeal without at least first ringing the seller and asking a few simple questions about?

    Well, if someone wants to compare a lot of cars quickly, he/she won't have time to ring a dozen different sellers and chat to them about the weather. And not everyone has free calls and may have to ring from Skype and since a lot of people also have some kind of mental illness about private numbers, reg hide is an automatic "Next!" to me.


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    #138
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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    #139
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,113 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    Well, if someone wants to compare a lot of cars quickly, he/she won't have time to ring a dozen different sellers and chat to them about the weather. And not everyone has free calls and may have to ring from Skype and since a lot of people also have some kind of mental illness about private numbers, reg hide is an automatic "Next!" to me.

    A car history report costs a lot more than the price of a phone call. A 3 minute phone call could help weed out the necessity of paying for a fair number of them too.


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    #140
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    NCT check is free though?


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    #141
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,113 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    That doesn't give you much though. Full history and finance check is around twenty odd euro.


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    #142
    visual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,268 ✭✭✭visual


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Cloning reg plates, not the car. For example, scumbag wants to avoid paying tolls or for fuel at filling stations. Goes onto donedeal and looks up cars the same make/model, year and colour as his one. Goes off and gets plates made up and sticks them on his car. Off he goes up and down the M50 or fills up and takes off without paying.

    It's not 100% fool proof but it doesn't make life easy for these people either. And if a buyer wants the reg to run a history check on it, then no problem after a quick chat about the car with the seller. Or are people spending lots of money just doing history checks on cars they might have an interest in on donedeal without at least first ringing the seller and asking a few simple questions about?


    It is easy to check the NCT online for free if you know the Reg. number.
    you would be very surprised at the number that claimed to have NCT that don't especially at the bottom end of the market.


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    #143
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,153 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    There's some buyers who do zero checks, they don't check who actually owns the car, they don't verify who is actually selling the car, don't check chassis number matches VLC, they don't run a history check, they don't do any NCT cert verification and then when things go wrong and they get ripped off they wonder why.


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    #144
    visual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,268 ✭✭✭visual


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    There's some buyers who do zero checks, they don't check who actually owns the car, they don't verify who is actually selling the car, don't check chassis number matches VLC, they don't run a history check, they don't do any NCT cert verification and then when things go wrong and they get ripped off they wonder why.

    Doing all these checks has become necessary because of unsavoury sellers.
    not everyone has experience of buying selling cars or realises Caveat Emptor is the legal standing and morals don't count.

    I feel sorry for the guy or girl that buys a nice looking car has taken the seller word for everything then when car end up in garage discovers it is a polished turd and they have been lied to.


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