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Just sold a lemon...

JayEm

Nope, made a substantial loss actually. I bought it recently without knowing about the fault.

And nope, I didn't lie about anything, answered any questions they had truthfully, didn't do any pushy selling.

Well, originally I felt that you should be feeling sad, but after reading that, I think what you did was something any logical person would do. Its not the best thing in the world but someone did the bad onto you and you passed it on, having made a loss.

TBH, you should have at least covered your costs though :p:

More seriously, because you didn't lie you shouldn't feel guilty about what you have done.

Reply 61

Em_maK

13

Naturally the buyers should of asked, but you should of told them.

Of course you should feel bad. Why wouldn't you?
Its a worry you have to ask such a question. Empathy, anyone?

Scum

If this happened to me, I'd extremely annoyed! However, from the many, many, many car programmes I have watched, the seller is not obliged to tell of any (serious) faults. It is upto the buyer to ask and then, it's the seller responsibility to answer truthfuly.

That's why it's always important to take the AA or RAC with you to get it checked out. Yes, it may cost you £120 for the check, but it could potentially save ALOT more, plus the hassle in the future.

Reply 64

browzer-911

5

You better hope they are not nutters and when they find out dont come and burn your house down.

Reply 65

prodriven

I wouldnt worry mate. Whenever selling cars I always use the rule of only answering questions they ask. Anything they ask I will answer 100% truthfully but I wont go around pointing out everything wrong with the car, people come and look at cars to see them for themselves and make up their own mind. If in doubt they can get an inspection.

Its the typical blame culture that comes in to this. If someone buys a dodgy car then its immediately the sellers fault, if the buyer doesnt want to get the car fully inspected then I'm afraid I have no sympathy for them. You wouldnt by a house without a survey so why do people with little car knowledge reckon it safe to buy a car without an inspection??

Reply 66

The Hitchhiker

1

chr15chr15

lol if you made some money out of it who cares!

Who cares that soeone got ripped off right? One day you'll buy a lemon unknowingly.

****.

Reply 67

eMJaaay♥

13

Awwww J! Ofcourse you should feel bad, you total scum! :p:

seriously though, feel bad, but not very very bad, just a bit ... of should have mentioned it to them and it was kind of deceitful that you didn't but it was also their responsibility to ask to meh ... btw how do you know they were really nice people??

And you could just call them up and mention this to end the guilt ... and tell them you won't buy it back soo its not tooo bad?

Tschhhh scorpions huh :rolleyes:

if you did that to me [which you better not do ever!] I could slap up you're face and burn down Moogie :p:

Reply 68

Tofufi

4

JayEm

Nope, thanks to the term "Sold As Seen", and because a small oil leak is not an MOT failure, you can't claim its unroadworthy.

If you bought it from a dealer, 'sold as seen' doesn't really mean much.

You still have (or had, now) the statutory legal rights.

I do think you should be feeling guilty.

Reply 69

JayEm

OP

14

Tofufi

If you bought it from a dealer, 'sold as seen' doesn't really mean much.

You still have (or had, now) the statutory legal rights.

I do think you should be feeling guilty.

Nope, I didn't buy it from a dealer, so I couldn't really do anything even if it was dangerously unroadworthy, which it isn't, might I add.

The people that bought it, brought along friends that apparently knew about cars. They checked everything over, went for a test drive and were happy to buy it.

Reply 70

DirtyHarry

12

I'd saying doing that is rather twattish, regardless of the fact you don't have to tell them.

Reply 71

Pseudomuse

1

JayEm; You are a bad man, and you're seed shall be wiped from the earth!

but seriously, i think we've all been there and sold a lemon. i know i have haha

Reply 72

InArduisFouette

21

FoeGeddaBowDeet

It's a perfectly logical comparison. You can't fault it just because it's a little less socially acceptable.

is there a version of godwin's law for when people compare theopposing view to paedophilia rather than German 'national Socialism' of thwe 1930- 4's

if so i invoke that o r invoke godwin by some sort of proxy ...

Reply 73

FoeGeddaBowDeet

zippyRN

is there a version of godwin's law for when people compare theopposing view to paedophilia rather than German 'national Socialism' of thwe 1930- 4's

if so i invoke that o r invoke godwin by some sort of proxy ...

you can't invoke godwins law

Reply 74

JayEm

OP

14

Update on this:

The people that bought the car have stuck it back on AutoTrader, inflating the price by several hundred pounds! Whoever buys it next will be paying well over the actual value. If they choose to get it repaired, they'll be out of pocket by £1000-£1200. And I thought I was being the conman!

P.S. All you feckers telling me I should feel guilty - All I can say after discovering this is screw you. :p:

Reply 75

Lara C.

3

put it this way the guy who sold you it could have equally sold them it. no reason why a poor student should lose out! better happen to somebody with some cash id say,

Reply 76

Spotty Dog

15

I thought this thread was about citrus fruit. :frown:

TBH, I take knowledgeable friends with me to look at any car and we ask questions on par with a small inquisition. Anything we miss and find later, we consider to be our fault for not asking/checking and I don't think we've ever blamed the seller for not telling us.

What about cars through auction? Are the sellers still at fault then?

We've had some real lemons off the auction recently. a BMW with god-knows-what wrong with it (it kept overheating, and nothing we could do would stop it), a punto with a gearbox that fell off at 70mph (amongst many other problems), a mondeo with a gaping hole in it's sump tank (sealed with window sealent....)

Reply 77

prodriven

Spotty Dog

I thought this thread was about citrus fruit. :frown:

TBH, I take knowledgeable friends with me to look at any car and we ask questions on par with a small inquisition. Anything we miss and find later, we consider to be our fault for not asking/checking and I don't think we've ever blamed the seller for not telling us.

What about cars through auction? Are the sellers still at fault then?

We've had some real lemons off the auction recently. a BMW with god-knows-what wrong with it (it kept overheating, and nothing we could do would stop it), a punto with a gearbox that fell off at 70mph (amongst many other problems), a mondeo with a gaping hole in it's sump tank (sealed with window sealent....)

I would imagine the other problems were pretty insignificant compared to that!

In my experiance, auctions are great for bargains. But you just have to be prepared to offset all the bargains with the inevitible lemons you will end up with.

Reply 78

Spotty Dog

15

prodriven

I would imagine the other problems were pretty insignificant compared to that!

In my experiance, auctions are great for bargains. But you just have to be prepared to offset all the bargains with the inevitible lemons you will end up with.

Yeah. Any lemons we get tend to go back through the auction later that week (or the next week) anyway to try and get money back - particularly if they had a lot of bidders on them the night we got them.