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Michelstown private seller 06 Audi A4

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  • #2
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    azureus50 wrote: »
    I am very interested in the car for sale above but something is tell me to stay well clear.

    I think you know the answer to your own thread.

    From what you said above its all sounding too good to be true.


  • #3
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,518 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    could just be some developer or other up to his ears in debt, trying to sell assets rather than have the bank seize them at a lesser value?


  • #4
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    Maybe he is just someone trying to make a quick profit? A guy I know (well a friend of a friend) has bought a few cars recently, got them professionally valeted and then sold them on for maybe €500/€600 profit a week later.

    Although, that wouldn't explain why this guy is using different names. Sounds a bit dodgy alright.


  • #5
    azureus50
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭azureus50


    Thanks guys for your quick response.

    I'm siding along the same lines as cookie monster but have the reservations of John's response.

    I mean in this guys favour:

    He has sold minimum 3 cars within the last month or so. Uses the same number and takes photo's of the cars outside his house.

    Now, I did a backround check on the car. everything checks out fine as far as i can see. The VRC name changing concerns me and where the cars are coming from. (couldnt imagine this person developer or no developer owned so many assets himself) but could this guy just be a wheeler/dealer character trying to shift cars quickly for a cheap price and a cheap profit?

    If so, you can pick up a bargain.

    I guess im really hoping someone who's bought one of the cars mentioned in the original post see's this and responds with a yah or nah.

    Surely this guy would have been long found out if the previous buyers had purchased a dodgy car. He continually uses the same number to be business.

    *apologies to the sexist's out there.... presuming the seller is a male. :)


  • #6
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    OP - It's a dealer, simple as. I wouldn't even bother calling myself, but if you do then expect the seller to be to be a bit ... rough around the edges.;)


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  • #7
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    Came across the same myself recently - Mick/Niall/D/civic/seller etc (all same number, but a different one to yours) selling cars in Cork with recent changes of ownership with the line of "oh I got a new job with a car, don't need this one anymore"

    Practically every car that I'm genuinely interested in is on donedeal by a trader posing as a private sale.


  • #8
    shawnee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭shawnee


    From my own experience there are very few genuine private sellers on Donedeal.
    I had difficulty getting a logbook for a car that I bought last year. The motor tax office didn't receive it and when I rang the seller his mobile was disconnected. This experience turned me off donedeal. However it's always let the buyer beware and take every precaution when buying second hand:p


  • #9
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    shawnee wrote: »
    From my own experience there are very few genuine private sellers on Donedeal.
    I had difficulty getting a logbook for a car that I bought last year. The motor tax office didn't receive it and when I rang the seller his mobile was disconnected. This experience turned me off donedeal. However it's always let the buyer beware and take every precaution when buying second hand:p

    Is your experience one transaction?


  • #10
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    rainbowdrop wrote: »
    Maybe he is just someone trying to make a quick profit? A guy I know (well a friend of a friend) has bought a few cars recently, got them professionally valeted and then sold them on for maybe €500/€600 profit a week later...
    Ah, a motor-trader then. Revenue love hearing about these guys avoiding VAT registration etc.


  • #11
    azureus50
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭azureus50


    shawnee wrote: »
    From my own experience there are very few genuine private sellers on Donedeal.
    I had difficulty getting a logbook for a car that I bought last year. The motor tax office didn't receive it and when I rang the seller his mobile was disconnected. This experience turned me off donedeal. However it's always let the buyer beware and take every precaution when buying second hand:p

    Just curious.... how'd did you manage to resolve the "missing" log book situation? Sounds like a tricky situation :(


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  • #12
    azureus50
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭azureus50


    Guys, thanks to all for your responses. I guess its just a case of getting in contact and sussing it out.

    Not sure if the guy is a trader acting as a private seller. I would be more of the opinion he is possibly acting on a traders behalf for a quick profit if there is even a tie with a trader at all. Considering the seller has his house/dogs/kitchenware for sale on donedeal its more likely someone in debt, hence the possibility of a bargain/costly mistake.

    Will update after i give him a shout.


  • #13
    Gophur
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭Gophur


    azureus50 wrote: »
    Guys, thanks to all for your responses. I guess its just a case of getting in contact and sussing it out.

    Not sure if the guy is a trader acting as a private seller. I would be more of the opinion he is possibly acting on a traders behalf for a quick profit if there is even a tie with a trader at all. Considering the seller has his house/dogs/kitchenware for sale on donedeal its more likely someone in debt, hence the possibility of a bargain/costly mistake.

    Will update after i give him a shout.

    Someone acting on someone else's behalf will not transfer cars into his name just prior to sale. It's obvious this is a man masquerading as a private seller, when he is, in fact, a trader.

    Steer well clear of such a chancer.


  • #14
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    TBH if all the checks on the car come back clean and you get it looked over prior to purchase it wouldn't bother me who was selling the car.


  • #15
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    I tend to agree. But I'd be a bit more cautious. I think there might be a higher probability of it being clocked - but I may be unfair saying that.


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