Annoying sellers

This doesn't involve anyone from this forum..

I talked to a guy for a week about a nice D100 that's a few hours away from me. Tell him I can come by on Sunday to take a look and possibly buy it. The truck looked as nice as one of these trucks could get but I still asked if it was reliable enough to make it back to my place. He told me over the phone that it ran great with no problems and he had been driving it for a few months without a hiccup. So I pull the money out of the bank, fill up my girlfriends car and ride out there with her Sunday to take a look and most likely buy this truck if it looks as good as the pictures did online.

I get there and the truck looks even better than the pictures do so I'm pretty excited. The 2nd thing the guy says to me is "Yeah I don't think this thing will make it back to your house". I ask him what he means by that and he said he hasn't been able to get the thing started lately. I was like "Well why the hell did you let me drive all the way out here if you knew I wouldn't be able to drive it back home?". He just kind of nodded and looked down at the ground without giving me an answer. I said "You told me it ran great and that I'd have no problems driving it home. So you let me drive 3 hours out there for no reason to check out a truck that doesn't even start?". He then just kind of acted like he didn't know what I was talking about and said that we could pour gas down the carb to try and start it. I just said forget it and got back in the car and drove home.

Waste of time and waste of gas money for nothing. Still pisses me off when I think about it. Has this ever happened to anyone else?