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Dr Strangeglove:
Let us know how you go on - Good luck, I hope it is better than you expect.
Matt.t.:
haha i was gonna loook at that one!
AS90:
Ive just done a 300 mile round trip to find it was a complete shed! Stay well away! I asked him on the phone before hand if it was all ok and he said it was great, when I got there it would not start, then it would not idle - it would just cut out, then I found the engine had very little power and it wouldn't change out of first gear, the interior was tatty and dirty, you had to use a tent peg to open the tailgate, the headlining was sagging, the body was corroded, as were the sills and inner arches, fumes in the cabin was the last straw. I threatened to report him to ebay if he relisted it with the same description so he has changed it now, but too late for me I spent £40 on petrol and a whole day getting there and back. Ive got £1000 waiting for a decent LPG RR if anybody has got one. Sorry about the rant :)
Range Rover Blues:
Rant away mate, many of us have been in that situation. Buyimg a car is a PITA sometimes.
Good news is prices are on their a**e at the moment, anyone see Top Gear on Dunday, 4x4 are no longer cool (yeah, right) might stop yummie mummies buying them I suppose but the prices are way down on last year.
I might have one for sale soon but it needs some work for the MOT (sills and ABS) but there are 1 or 2 already for sale within the club and you might not get your fingers burned buying from someone we all know.
AS90:
They have filed a square trade complaint asking me to withdraw the negative feedback I left :lol: It went something along the lines of 'There is nothing wrong with the gear box and nothing wrong with the engine'. Here's my reply...
If there is no fault on the gear box why did it not change gear? And why has it now been relisted with the following added "THERE IS A FAULT ON THE GEARBOX WHICH REQUIRES SLIGHT ATTENTION". The following has also been added "ENGINE NEEDS A TUNE UP TO ENABLE IT TO RUN PROPERLY" These two statements clearly show that you knew about these faults, but decided not to own up to them even when I telephoned to explain how far I was travelling and to make sure the car had no mechanical faults. Had you been honest in the first place I would not have bought the vehicle, I am also not too surprised to find your account has previously been suspended for shill bidding (bidding on your own auctions to inflate the prices). This was a message from a potential buyer of the car today who asked me what it was like and then did a bit of reasearch himself... "These nobbers selling the rangie have been selling loads of items in the past and nearly on every transaction there was an e-bay name of ajones6998 to bump the price up, and if it was sold to this (fictional) ajones6998 the item was relisted within minutes!!". I pride myself on being an honest ebayer, its a shame you dont too!
And the best thing is they left me feedback saying 'Don't purchase before seeing if your not goning to buy, any faults WERE listed' but they left it as a positive by accident :lol:
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