Clocked Bora on donedeal

L-M

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/1815614

Spotted this on another forum, the OP sold the car with 170k on it.

Mr Magners

Is it possible the 170k was km and the mileage quoted in the ad is miles which would be close enough to 100k miles?

L-M

Mr Magners wrote: »

Is it possible the 170k was km and the mileage quoted in the ad is miles which would be close enough to 100k miles?

No, that was discussed on the orginional forum.

The seller's excuse is he had a new engine fitted and "it's called mileage correction". Although I'm sure that excuse varies.

Mr Magners

Mr Magners wrote: »

Is it possible the 170k was km and the mileage quoted in the ad is miles which would be close enough to 100k miles?

who speaks in kms for a pre 2005?

antodeco

Plus, 4k for an 11 year old Bora!!?

antodeco

antodeco wrote: »

Plus, 4k for an 11 year old Bora!!?

She's daysul you see

Mr Magners

RoverJames wrote: »

who speaks in kms for a pre 2005?

Anyone driving a car pre-2005 that's showing in Kms?

I know this car isn't but it was only a suggestion and as you can see from Limerick Lads response it has been discussed elsewhere also.

Mr Magners

Mr Magners wrote: »

Anyone driving a car pre-2005 that's showing in Kms?

I've bought and sold two pre 2005 cars with km clocks (jappers), the adds I bought them off and the adds I sold them in were in miles
So at best some folks might.

keithclancy

Christ almighty .. wouldnt fancy driving on those rims in Kerry

Tea 1000

Anyone who pays €3700 for that bag of crap deserves a clocked car!

Anan1

Tea 1000 wrote: »

Anyone who pays €3700 for that bag of crap deserves a clocked car!

I'm tempted to agree.

Henry Ford III

"strait true exhaust"

p.s. He manged to spell "brakes" correctly however.

-Chris-

I reported the ad and got this response from donedeal:

Hi,

Thank you for contacting us.

If you feel that this ad is dishonest or false advertising, please report it to the Gardai as they are the correct authorities to investigate this matter. You can find their contact details here:
http://www.crimecouncil.gov.ie/crimestoppers.html#Crimestoppers or through the Garda Station Directory http://www.garda.ie/stations/

We will of course assist the Gardai in any way possible with their investigation and provide them with all information that we have on this seller and take whatever action they recommend to us.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

All the best
Aoife

Web: www.donedeal.ie
Blog: http://blog.donedeal.ie/
facebook: www.facebook.com/DoneDealIreland

Buyer beware, I guess. It's not their problem... :rolleyes:

YouTookMyName

Seller on Done Deal in over priced diesel VAG shocker.....

unkel

-Chris- wrote: »

I reported the ad and got this response from donedeal:




Buyer beware, I guess. It's not their problem... :rolleyes:

I reported an ad on donedeal once and I got that very same reply. I was unhappy about that as donedeal do have some responsibility for what they publish, especially after it has been informed of incorrect info in ads. After an exchange of emails, they reported back to me that the person had edited his ad to take out the offending (=lying) comments

johnos1984

unkel wrote: »

I reported an ad on donedeal once and I got that very same reply. I was unhappy about that as donedeal do have some responsibility for what they publish, especially after it has been informed of incorrect info in ads. After an exchange of emails, they reported back to me that the person had edited his ad to take out the offending (=lying) comments

I got it before as well but noticed the ad still disappeared after my message.

They seem to vary the response as since then I've always gotten a reply thanking me and telling me the ad has been removed.

Must be a couple of people answering the complaints

unkel

johnos1984 wrote: »

I got it before as well but noticed the ad still disappeared after my message.

They seem to vary the response as since then I've always gotten a reply thanking me and telling me the ad has been removed.

Must be a couple of people answering the complaints

What kinda thing did you report? Maybe when something is clearly illegal, they remove the ad. In my case it was nothing "illegal" as such, the seller was just telling porkies...

Absurdum

Anyone who reads that moronic description and then decides to buy it deserves all they get imo.

johnos1984

unkel wrote: »

What kinda thing did you report? Maybe when something is clearly illegal, they remove the ad. In my case it was nothing "illegal" as such, the seller was just telling porkies...

Brown log books

wiger toods

When i sold my car a a couple of years ago it had 159.000 miles on it. it showed up about 3 weeks later on donedeal going for e2200 (i let it go for 1800) and had 97000 miles on it. amazing eh? those eastern europeans will sell you anything!

Jarren

Did you report it to the Guards?
or here http://www.consumerconnect.ie/eng/Hot_Topics/Guides-to-Consumer-Law/Buying-a-car/clocked-cars.html

or you just blaming those Eastern Europeans?

wiger toods

wiger toods wrote: »

When i sold my car a a couple of years ago it had 159.000 miles on it. it showed up about 3 weeks later on donedeal going for e2200 (i let it go for 1800) and had 97000 miles on it. amazing eh? those eastern europeans will sell you anything!

Looney though, €400 difference is what they paid for it and what they were asking. Not much profit margin.

L-M

RoverJames wrote: »

Looney though, €400 difference is what they paid for it and what they were asking. Not much profit margin.

Lol, I was thinking the same! Hardly worth it. Although, depending on the car it may have been a very quick €400

wiger toods

Limerick man wrote: »

Lol, I was thinking the same! Hardly worth it. Although, depending on the car it may have been a very quick €400

2000 mercedes A class, kitted out too. think it took them around a month to resell it, thats how long the ad was up for anyway.

wiger toods

jarecki1976 wrote: »

Did you report it to the Guards?
or here http://www.consumerconnect.ie/eng/Hot_Topics/Guides-to-Consumer-Law/Buying-a-car/clocked-cars.html

or you just blaming those Eastern Europeans?

No i didnt! probably would have been the appropriate thing to do though.
I took the 'not my car anymore, not my problem' route. poor betsy, should never have sold her!

veetwin

Mr Magners wrote: »

Anyone driving a car pre-2005 that's showing in Kms?

I bought a new A4 in 2004 which came with a KM speedo.

L-M

veetwin wrote: »

I bought a new A4 in 2004 which came with a KM speedo.

Must of been late 04? Ie. October onwards? The brother bought a Golf and it was registered in 04 and it was the same.

KylieWyley

Jesus, DoneDeal is full of some amount of shyte.

A lot of the dodgey ones like this should be glaringly obvious to anyone with a bit of cop though.... at least, you'd hope!

veetwin

Limerick man wrote: »

Must of been late 04? Ie. October onwards? The brother bought a Golf and it was registered in 04 and it was the same.

Ordered in May/June and delivered in August