Never ever have I had the Police involved in selling a car...

[popp]

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- Your lack of accountability costing us all money by wasting the cops time.

That is an asinine statement if I ever heard one. How is it his fault the guy called the cops?!?!? There was NO reason why CPS was called to attend.

What if I called the cops to your house cause your christmas lights were still on in June for example? Are you accountable for the tax payers money because you choose to have pretty lights on in the summer? If anything, the guy should be accountable for being a baby and not resolving it on his own and hiding behind the police and your precious tax dollars.

[Remedys]

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I agree with Alex on this one, with the exception of the statement "ever heard", as I would think that you read it. Now if you had somebody read it to you, or you read it out loud then your statement would be correct, just sayin.

[popp]

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I read everything out loud......even porn

[BaggedGLI]

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I still dont get that you said that the car was under your wife name so she had to sign off on it...... but somehow you sold it to him anyways?

Did i skip something?

[liquid]

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That is an asinine statement if I ever heard one. How is it his fault the guy called the cops?!?!? There was NO reason why CPS was called to attend.

What if I called the cops to your house cause your christmas lights were still on in June for example? Are you accountable for the tax payers money because you choose to have pretty lights on in the summer? If anything, the guy should be accountable for being a baby and not resolving it on his own and hiding behind the police and your precious tax dollars.

Perhaps I should rephrase.

If people stopped acting like children and were actually accountable for their actions, these issues wouldn't arise. I've spent quite a lot of time on ride-alongs, and probably 80% of their time is spent with useless crap like this. Not saying it's entirely the posters fault... it takes two.... but the problem originally started with what? Not living up to an agreement... period.

[danosaur]

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Selling or buying cars can be a major shitshow these days.

Originally before I bought my car, I went to look at a mk3 gti that was cheap and when I called the man confirmed *NO RUST*, so I had my cousin.. who is not that knowledgeable about vw's go and check it out at night time (I still lived in Medicine Hat at this time, cousin lived in Calgary) which I knew was not the smartest, but the guy said he had 3 other buyers. So quickly my cousin went, said it was pretty clean, and offered the guy a 200$ deposit. Went to pick it up a day or two later, got there, checked it out.. popped the gas cap and i put my finger through the metal, and the filler neck almost fell out. As well, rusty floors.. etc. We had a signed paper that stated we put a deposit down on but was refundable upon checking the car out. Guy wouldn't give me the deposit back, even though the headgasket on the thing was blown, the tranny sucked, lots of rust when he said no.. etc etc. Tons of problems, and in the end it just wasn't worth it to take him to court.. although I should've just on principal. Anyways, point of this was, I wanted to break that man's legs. If it had've been up to me I would've headbutted the guy on the spot, and the dude buying your car had every right to be angry.

I gotta say, you screwed the pooch on this one. Entirely your fault, even if the guy did over-react.

[aliencurv]

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I had a similar story but not the same.

I had spent a few years restoring an XR4Ti. I had ironically purchased it from Rage2 @ beyond. Unrelated to the story: i purchased it under the impression that the motor was fine lol..

anyway, a few years of restoration on the car.. new motor. rewired the previous owners mess. so many hacks had been fixed. so recently i decided to sell the car to someone who wanted to take over the restoration. this guy from edmonton is young, but eager to purchase the car. i tell him how important this vehicle is to me, and that i won't sell it to someone who isn't mechanically confident enough to maintain it.

long story short, he drives down with his mom from edmonton. takes the car for a test drive. and on his return he has a few ridiculous questions/concerns like "it's sluggish at low rpm" (really? on a turbo charged 4 cylinder? who would have thought)

so after a quick discussion with him on his mechanical ability, i decided he wasn't right for the car. so i told him "sorry dude, i can't sell it to you". i thought he was going to cry. his mom got angry and said "Our money is just as good as anyone elses!" and they were argueing with me to sell them the car. i said "absolutely not, i'm sorry. i can't see my baby end up in a junk yard because your son can't maintain it".

anyway, if my neighboors were home, they would have surely come out to see what the commosion was about. they were sooo pissed and threatened to call the police because i wouldn't sell them my car.

the xr4ti went to a good friend down south in clarsholm.

[vee_dubbin]

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I still dont get that you said that the car was under your wife name so she had to sign off on it...... but somehow you sold it to him anyways?

Did i skip something?

I sold it..my fiance signed the papers.

I knew I would be flamed and this was probably not the smartest thing to post, but I thought this situation was so random and odd, that it was "story telling" worthy. I know it was a dick move to do it to the guy and can never take it back. But With my fiance getting upset with me for selling it so cheap, and this guy being a total hick and me not being comfortable with him taking my pride and joy away only to find it in a scrap yard 2 or 3 years from now, I felt like I had to do something. For a 2500 dollar car, I didn't think anyone would take it so far as he did. But you guys are right, a deal is a deal, and I should have honored the verbal agreement to avoid all of this hassle. Oh well, lessoned learned. I am in no way a salesman and don't plan on being one for this reason. I'll just stick to being a auto tech and leave it at that.

Your born with 2 things in life..Your Name and Your Word.(Clearly you have none)
Maybe that's why you don't have a Job.Shame on you.

Actually got a job now and started today. I won't say where, to leave there name from getting dragged into this, but its at a dealership for cars you or I couldn't afford. And I'm not talking about BMW's or Audi's. Thanks for the comment though.

[Rocky_Rabbit]

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I sold it..my fiance signed the papers.

I knew I would be flamed and this was probably not the smartest thing to post, but I thought this situation was so random and odd, that it was "story telling" worthy. I know it was a dick move to do it to the guy and can never take it back. But With my fiance getting upset with me for selling it so cheap, and this guy being a total hick and me not being comfortable with him taking my pride and joy away only to find it in a scrap yard 2 or 3 years from now, I felt like I had to do something. For a 2500 dollar car, I didn't think anyone would take it so far as he did. But you guys are right, a deal is a deal, and I should have honored the verbal agreement to avoid all of this hassle. Oh well, lessoned learned. I am in no way a salesman and don't plan on being one for this reason. I'll just stick to being a auto tech and leave it at that.



Actually got a job now and started today. I won't say where, to leave there name from getting dragged into this, but its at a dealership for cars you or I couldn't afford. And I'm not talking about BMW's or Audi's. Thanks for the comment though.

Glad to hear about the job Mike!!!

[94gti]

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Actually got a job now and started today. I won't say where, to leave there name from getting dragged into this, but its at a dealership for cars you or I couldn't afford. And I'm not talking about BMW's or Audi's. Thanks for the comment though.

Speak for your self I am balling

[luunta]

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I backed out of a deal with a guy selling my allroad. He strung me along for 2 weeks, basically the bank wouldn't give him the money. He was getting small loans from several banks. a different guy called, had the cash, sale took 2 days, one day for inspection and one day for bank/transfer-tax. Easy, done. Other guy actually called me during the sale to say he needed more time, I said "sorry, you took too long."

I, however, did not collect any deposits, and warned him several times that I was still advertising the car because he was taking too long. I'm not a bank, and I'm not a charity. I was selling a product and my goal was to sell the car. I felt bad, but my real concern was for my financial well being, not his.

I understand where you were coming from, but you had agreed to a verbal contract with the guy and collected a deposit. :(

[vee_dubbin]

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Glad to hear about the job Mike!!!

Thanks Tom. Long time overdue!! Worth the wait though. I scored huge!!

Speak for your self I am balling

Wish I was...then I wouldn't have had to go and put myself in a bicarious spot by trying to get the best price possible.... Oh well!! Whats done is done and it will never happen again!! I hope I didn't burn any bridges with all you guys on here. I like this forum and all of the members I've encountered on gatherings and cruises since I've been on here. Please don't judge me entirely on one stupid move. But when your backed in a corner, you have to do, what you have to do!

[D-BOMB]

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Yeah man, in these un certain time you gotta do what you gotta do, Just dont swindle any eurodrivers

[Compton]

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A similar thing happened to me about 9 years ago when I was selling my Mustang so I could get money for school, some kid came and looked at it and left, then called later that night and made an offer that I agreed to but told him I need a deposit. He said fine and told me he would be by at 9am, when 10am rolled around another person offered me $500 more for the car that I accepted. 10:30 the kid shows up to give me the deposit and I told him it was sold. Next thing I know I his dad telling me he is going to sue, call the police, we had an oral agreement and so on. I didn't do anything wrong in this case because money had not changed hands, in your case the guy had every right to be upset because he had placed a deposit on the car. In civil court your little note you wrote for a deposit that you signed would likely be enough for him to sue for damages and if he could prove that in the orginal agreement you were going to include certain things or fix things that you then told him you would no longer do he would be well within his rights to sue for the costs he incurred after he took posession of the car.
I don't think the reaction of the guy who put the deposit down was unreasonable at all, you entered into a contract with him and then broke it without offering remedy for his loss. If you would have offered him his deposit back and $200 on top of that for his trouble you would have been $400 up and maybe saved some problems as well as shown a strong sign that you offered remedy. Hopefully he does not have anything in writing stating you would provide or fix the problems because if he does you may still end up in court, and in civil court it is not always about evidence, in many cases it is about who's story seems the most reasonable.

Glad you never came to pick up the ED hoodie i was selling, you quite possibly would have given me a BJ for it.


As for everyone else in this thread, its funny how everyone cries when something should be a "fair" deal. Im willing to bet most if not all of you go for what is best for you in any given situation. As an individual who is not from here and have spent half my life time in Europe, i can easily say that here in Canada there is no "fair-ness". Everyone looks for themselves and could really careless about others and this situation is not any different. For the OP to be unemployed and really have no means of income coming in other then selling his beat up car, I would say he should of been all for selling it for more money. Any smart individual would of done the same thing, do not trick yourself into thinking otherwise. You are not only lying to us but you are most importantly lying to yourself.

And to add one last thing to the OP, i would of just mentioned to the deposit guy that the car is not for sale anymore. That way it would of kept u out of all the garbage you had to deal with and could of sold it for a bigger profit.

[cam_wmh]

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Your born with 2 things in life..Your Name and Your Word.(Clearly you have none)
Maybe that's why you don't have a Job.Shame on you.

Harsh words & ironic, due to the business you gave me.

Thanks Tom. Long time overdue!! Worth the wait though. I scored huge!

Good to hear Mike.