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Had someone come to view my 997 Turbo, he checked the car over for 3 hours and could not fault it.
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Had someone come to view my 997 Turbo, he checked the car over for 3 hours and could not fault it. Agreed a price, told me he would ring later....never heard anything.
Why would you waste time just kicking tyres for 3 hours!! Troubles of selling cars privately...
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pistonuser said:
Had someone come to view my 997 Turbo, he checked the car over for 3 hours and could not fault it. Agreed a price, told me he would ring later....never heard anything.
Why would you waste time just kicking tyres for 3 hours!! Troubles of selling cars privately...
Strange
Sorry to hear your experience. Could it be someone who is viewing several cars and made a counter-offer on one of their previous viewings and went for another car instead?
My view is that for an expensive car like yours, the deal is not 50% complete until a PPI is commissioned and completed. Even with the PPI completed, the buyer could still decide that there are things which does not feel quite right (a kind of a gut feeling) and walk away. Unfortunately this happens with all transactions at all levels and is part of a due diligence process.
On those occasions where i have sold privately (Porsche 997 tt and 997 tt cabriolet ) in both instances the buyers turned up looked at the car paid a deposit in cash and the deal was done once funds had cleared on my bank account.
Could be worse. I actually sold my Cayenne Turbo privately to a foreign looking and sounding chap against my better judgement. Now, 3 weeks later, he's ringing me telling me it needs £3k of work and if I don't pay he'll visit my house. I've tried explaining that it was in excellent condition when he happily and willfully bought it, sold as seen.
pistonuser said:
Had someone come to view my 997 Turbo, he checked the car over for 3 hours and could not fault it. Agreed a price, told me he would ring later....never heard anything.
Why would you waste time just kicking tyres for 3 hours!! Troubles of selling cars privately...
Strange
Did you take a deposit?
The realities of selling a car. Everyone that ventures on the sales lot, or in this case your driveway, is a potential buyer but not everyone who ventures onto the sales lot, or your driveway, will be a buyer at least at this time.
You can try to do like pro salesmen do and ask questions like how soon are you thinking of buying? What are you looking to spend? Where have you looked? What are your must haves? And so on. A good salesman can have a buyer sized up pretty quick and a looky-lou id'd PDQ and gently shown the door.
3 hours not too bad.
Ive had a 9 hour looker, who only left when I was closing the showroom and a 7 hour looker who didnt buy a Ferrari (which was concourse) as 2 old tax discs were not in the history!
