Buying A Car On Ebay

[joko]

how does this work?

i mean, if you buy it then get there to collect, check it out and find out it has faults, and you decide you no longer want to purchase, do you just refuse it then get a refund?
what if they refuse the refund?

or do you bid on it, win it, but don't pay until you have seen it?

Ideally you would be able to see it before you bid but that's not always possible if you live far away or the auction is ending in a short time.

what are the rules etc?

thanks

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Never buy a car of Ebay without going to see it and check out the paperwork/HPI records.

[Old_Geezer]

Do you not it subject to satisfactory inspection when collecting ? Ask the seller the question.

[factor-fiction]

We have sold a car on e-bay without a problem. Buyer brought an engineer/friend and presumably sorted an HPi check and paid cash, coming into the bank with me (it was actually a Tesco store) to ensure the notes were okay, before I handed over the papers and we gacve each other reciepts. I'm not sure I'd do it again because I'm not sure whether things could have gone wrong- e.g. I heard a story of a 'buyer' who distracted the seller and drove the car away without paying and theinsurance company wouldn't pay out

[factor-fiction]

receipts!

[belrec]

We sold a car on ebay. A guy bid a price but then came to see it with the undestanding that if it wasn't up to scratch there would be no sale.

We had been very accruate in the description about little marks and stuff because of the age so there were no surprises, we had all the docs and receipts etc going back to the year dot.

Just make sure there is all the paperwork for services and garage work, if you can get the reg no try checking it on the dvla site for tax and it matches the people selling it.

The guy was happy with our car paid us a wodge (?) of money and drove it away, very nice thank you.

It can be done if you are careful, good luck x

[Playbill]

I sold a car on Ebay and the winning buyer sent a message within ten minutes of the auction ending asking if he could pick it up that evening and pay cash. He lived about 80 miles away, had never seen the car or asked any questions about it. The thing was, though, I had given a very accurate description and about 10 photographs. So when he arrived two hours later, he only spent a minute checking it, paid, drove away and that was that.

A friend of mine bid and won a much more expensive car located nearly three hundred miles away. When he arrived to pick it up he found the car described as 'only one owner' had two names in the log book. He was told the first name was 'only the dealers' and that did not count. Being in the motor trade (as was the seller) my friend explained that it did. He got £1000 pounds off the price.