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Hi there need some advice please . I put my old 1979 celica up for sale and a few people rang and stuff , then I geta guy from ireland said he would like to leave a deposit without seeing the car , so I said I would have preffered he seen the car first but he said no he was happy to leave a deposit for the car. So he does a bank transfer on mid december with collection 2nd week of january. But i,ve phoned him , txt him , emailed him aswell but no reply. So I have phoned friday past and left. A message again but still nothing. Anybody got any advice ? Thanks in advance
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compass
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Personally, I'd leave a message saying if it isn't collected in,the next week, then the car will be for sale again.
If you don't hear from him, at least you gave him enough warning about what you were going to do.
You can't hang on forever waiting.
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I've had this twice, I did as you've done but I also called from a number that the so-called-buyers wouldn't have known was mine to see if it was just me they were bumping (they still didn't answer) and I made sure I had copies of emails and records of texts (itemised phone bills) in case I ever needed to prove what I'd done.
Then I just sold the cars again and kept the free money.
It reminded me why taking a deposit was so important, even on a cheap motor.
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I had this once for a bike I sold, they guy rang back 11 months later to ask about collecting it.....
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Had it before and said i'd never play the same game again!
I did keep the money though, and told them it was there problem
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Think in legal terms you just need to give him reasonable time to collect and also, Notice of your intent to keep the deposit In the eyes of the law that's all
Like suggested earlier give him a deadline and tell him after that date deposit will be kept and car re-sold , either that or get his bank details and send him his deposit back job done
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sparkyt
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I've sold an 2e engine to a bloke on ere .
Almost a year ago it's still sitting in the barn waiting . .
If it was eBay I'd of relisted it but as the bloke is on ere I've kept to my word it's waiting collection
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kite
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I just had a similar situation , he left a £350 deposit in November and only collected the car last week. 9 weeks later.
When I got the deposit I said it was non refundable as the buyer (a car dealer) had not seen the car and someone else was interested who had viewed.
When he came to collect he tried to knock the price down, I insisted he pay the agreed price or loose his deposit.
In hindsight I would : take a deposit saying non refundable with a collection before date, 1 month from sale , and make sure it's all in writhing ( email).
Send an email stating date it mush be collected or he will lose his deposit, you will have to give him a reasonable timescale as you have not agreeded on a date.
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I sold some car panels two years ago, I still have them and the seller hasn't been in contact for about a year.
I contacted the restoration company where he had booked his car into and they didn't know about the car.
He paid via Paypal so I might just refund some of the money and keep the rest for admin and storage.
Sold another large car panel a few years ago on ebay and the buyer had to arrange his own courier but got curse word with me a few months later when I said if not collected by a certain date I will charge £5 a day storage, he took up a claim with Ebay and PP and they told he to sod off as it was in my terms of selling and his time to complain had lapsed.
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I had the same back when I sold my XSI.
My XSI wasn't up for sale but I got made an offer I couldn't turn down, he was really keen spoke everyday he sent his deposit on pay day then he just disappeared of the face of the earth. I had already put the deposit on another car so I contacted him by all the means I had explaining and put the XSi up for sale for what he offered first time round and in less that 3 hours I had a guy from Scotland that insisted on send me a deposit to hold it until the following weekend. I explained the situation to him and I'd rather not take a deposit this time and would take his word for it but still he was adamant that he needed to secure it and sent half of the money while I was on the phone to him I explained it would be held until the weekend then go up for sale. This guy didn't mess about he drove 6 hours from Scotland and picked everything up giving me and extra £100 for any hassle I'd been caused.
So a car that I paid £300 for then threw a lot of Saxo and polish at it made over £2000 and I got an almost free MR2 turbo with the deposits.
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Some days you just need to take a grinder to an inanimate object, just to make your day a tiny bit better!!
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Thanks for the advice i,ve registered every single email and phone message and txt message . So if I don,t hear by the end of the month its going back up for sale as I have had enough messing around. Why do people leave big deposits then don,t bother ? Is it excitement ? Or have they just got money to burn ?
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