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mikec

mikec

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Hi everyone , hope our holidays were great. Ok , so here is the story , I sold my dart swinger to a local guy who "always wanted one", tell him everything about car and give him all the extras with it. two weeks later i see it on ebay , then on craigs with the cars discription more than embellished as to what it was with no price , i never asked how much, car went unsold for three months, then gone . So today get a text saying he sold to a local guy in my town, "im sure for more money" and wants to give the guy my number to ask questions about car . Now i will always help any body out no matter what, but im a little P O d this guy made money on my car and wants me to answer questions about , im a car and Mopar nut, and if i meet guy locally of course i'll tell him whatever he wants, but not this way. what do you think, am i a d#$% or right to be pissed . Thanks
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I have had a flipper but one of my cars and it surfaced on here .
I gladly answered questions about the car .
My problem is people misrepresenting their intentions .
I believe in capitalism not dishonesty !!!
I would answer any questions for the new buyer, and never deal with the seller again !!
Jim
 
Holidays? What holidays would that be?
 
thanks jimmer, the dishonesty in the cars description was my issue as well , not so much he flipped it ,but that he always wanted one, and described this one as a factory hp car, which it was not,along with the other stuff he added about car, and now is passing the buck back to me. so i think i will wait to see it on the roads around here, and local shows, to talk to new guy
 
Christmas, Hannuka, New Years, Election Day LOL
 
...."Yeah, that was my car once, I dont know WTF he did to it , but it looked a whole hell of a lot better when I had it..." Let that seep in for a few minutes while you look at it, then work with the new owner, and make a friend.
 
for all you know, the new owner might be a great guy, even though the guy whom he bought it from was a total douche (insert presidential comparison here)
dont penalize the new guy just because he bought a car from a jerk
 
You agreed on a price. Apparently you were happy with the price you sold it for so no need to be mad that he made money on it. Maybe you should of held out for more money.

As far as him misadvertising it. That's on him. Too late to do anything about that.

I wouldn't appreciate him giving my number out. If I met the new owner while out then that's a different story.
 
At least he asked permission to give out your number. Not the buyers fault. Let the new owner call you, and be honest with him about the car. I have had people tell me I should be P.O ed when someone flips something I sold, but hey, I sold it. It is his, he can do what he wants. We settled on a price I was happy with.
 
Thing is....he is dishonest. If you tell him not to pass your number along he will probably twist that truth into something different as well and make you look bad.....then every time the new owner finds something wrong or different than he was told by the seller you look like the liar.

Better to tell him "yes, please give me the number of the new owner and I will contact him". You can tell the truth about the car and the middle man will become what he really is....

My 2 cents
 
On the positive side, you didn't get bashed on sites like this like a friend of mine did. He sold a car to a friend who had been over to my house and saw the car, just had to have it, ECT. After getting it home, wasn't happy even after he had it running. Didn't pay much for it.
Lost a friend because of it
 
Buy a used trade in and try and get the previous owners info. He did not sell your car he sold his car. If you ever see the car in the future then I would approach the new owner. What if the new owner sells it and so on? won't be long and every one will have your number. Once the car is resold you should no longer associate yourself with it. As is means you can never be held responsible for any circumstances that arise with the car. Keep your family safe you don't know who the new owner is or why he wants to contact you.
 
d55dave said:
Thing is....he is dishonest. If you tell him not to pass your number along he will probably twist that truth into something different as well and make you look bad.....then every time the new owner finds something wrong or different than he was told by the seller you look like the liar.

Better to tell him "yes, please give me the number of the new owner and I will contact him". You can tell the truth about the car and the middle man will become what he really is....

My 2 cents
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This is what I would most likely do. Except after he gave me the other guys number I'd let him know I was not happy he flipped it after telling me how much he wanted it. I get what some said as far as 'a sale is a sale'. I would not hold a grudge on the flipper, but I ain't gonna be nice to him either. If the other guy is local and is going to keep it long term it could turn into something good. If not it's one call and done. Don't just be his help hotline. Get him on FABO, or maybe he's already here, never know.
 
Thanks everyone, Great comments, a sale is a sale is right ,and i was ok with price, car is local so i will see it again, would have liked it if car went to alaska, kind of like seeing your ex with a new guy lol, I really don't want to bash anyone, I will just talk to new guy, if he needs help no problem.
 
mikec said:
Thanks everyone, Great comments, a sale is a sale is right ,and i was ok with price, car is local so i will see it again, would have liked it if car went to alaska, kind of like seeing your ex with a new guy lol, I really don't want to bash anyone, I will just talk to new guy, if he needs help no problem.
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Oh, I would not 'bash' him. Quite frankly, I would not give him that much energy. But, it upset you enough to post it here. Sounds like a comment might bring closure to your 'deal'. Probably a simple 'thought you really wanted it' 'kinda quick unloading it'....and my life would be back on schedule with him not part of it.
 
I feel your pain, only my friend that I have worked with and did work for built engines, trans for him and he did the body's. I had a 70 cuda body I wanted 12.5 he said 8.5 so after about 3 hours and agreeing on I would build the stroker and 727 he said he would take it, After all was done the last thing we did was drop the car off at his house and pick up the $ he gave 8.5 I said I didn't agree on that it was 12.5 but he had the car and the paper work was done!! I left and the car was still on the trailer I get a call a couple hours later from another friend that said he was at ----- shop and my car just showed up and ------- said he bought it for 15. It was already sold before he stole it from me, What a friend,, Over the next 3 years I worked in the extra $ here and there and got most of my $ back, we are still friends and I plan on getting more $ in the future.
 
Watch for your old car while cruising around. If you get the chance, strike up a conversation with the new owner. The rest will take care of itself. Forget about the middle man.
 
I had a 71 Demon that I sold to a guy. Saw it on Ebay a week later with new pictures and an OVER THE TOP DESCRIPTION. Later, I found out a guy in Australia bought it and was pissed when it arrived. Apparently, the seller refunded some of his money and rightly so.
 
Misrepresenting your intentions to get a good deal is dishonest. Misrepresenting a car you're selling is dishonest too. Giving someone else's phone number to a stranger is wrong. Sounds like your buyer did all three, and you're right to be upset. However, it's not the new owner's fault.
 
I suggest you let it go for a while. You sold the car so I assume you don't want anything to do with it anymore. Perhaps sometime in the future if you see the car you could ask the new owner about it or tell him that used to own it, but for right now let it go and let the car go.
Alternatively you could charge the first buyer $200 and then he could give the other guy your phone number.
 
You could end up in the middle of a dispute over worth and end up in a frickin courtroom testifying for or against someone you don't even know.

How's that for incentive to not get involved?:D

I agree with the stay out of it unless you meet the new owner on a drive or show somewhere posts.
 
When the guy bought the car from you, it was up to him to verify everything about it, the same goes for the guy that bought the car from him. Any misrepresentations need to stop with the guy you sold it to. Sounds like his morals are kinda suspect, so I would definitely disassociate myself from him. If I met the new owner I would wait to see how he felt about the car and seller before I said anything about its history.
 
Stay out of it!!! You have no more responsibility to the new owner than the person who sold you the car. I like to be a nice person also, but I agree with Trailbeast; stay out of it and if the new owner calls you, tell him to call the middle man.
 
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