A word of warning!

[Guest]

If you try to sell your Porsche privatley, and advertise in the national news papers you are likely to gat a phone call from a well known north London high performance car dealer telling you he has a buyer for exactly the car car you are advertising. He will negioate a price with you which is almost what you were asking for and ask you to bring the car in with the log book etc and he will have your car sold with a week. After a week has gone buy the excuses start, our customer is on holiday for two week, he is have a problem getting credit etc etc and so it goes on.Its always you making the phone calls. He will then tell you his buyer has backed out, however as a leading dealer of high performance car he will be able to sell your car in no time at all, "BUT" not at the unrealistic price you were asking!! This happend to me three years ago when I was sell in 996 targa. After about 5 weeks of excuses and at the time of "Oh we will sell it in no time sir" I went down to collect my car guess what? The log book had been mislaid. It took two more weeks of phone call and a further drive down to north London to get it back. A friend of a friend was reeled in by the same company, when he eventuly went down to collect his car they had surendered his road fund licence!
So be warned.

Rodney Collins

 

[daro911]

Would this company be the one very near an underground station, that deals in Italian exotica as well as Porsche by any chance []

If so this has been there practice for the 30 years + I have known of them ... If not then there are now 2 North London horse traders using the same bullsh*t tactics

 

[oliver]

ORIGINAL: daro911

Would this company be the one very near an underground station, that deals in Italian exotica as well as Porsche by any chance []

If so this has been there practice for the 30 years + I have known of them ... If not then there are now 2 North London horse traders using the same bullsh*t tactics

I can vouch for that. They've been doing it for yonks. That's why they appear to have such a big stock list.

Nr Hendon[]

 

[daro911]

ORIGINAL: oliver

I can vouch for that. They've been doing it for yonks. That's why they appear to have such a big stock list.

Nr Hendon[]

And none of it priced up until the moment one asks the "central question" how much []

 

[Guest]

Yep thats the one.

Rodney

 

[daro911]

ORIGINAL: Rodney Collins

Yep thats the one.

Rodney

Back in the early 80's I was in a local stereo shop waiting for some works to be finished when in popped a guy from Edinburgh who thought whilst he was in the area he would at least buy a cheap stereo for his daily driver ... He then told us all how he had come down to buy a Morgan from the said dealer. Over the phone the deal had been agreed subject to a test drive and seeing the paperwork etc. Having passed his audition he then produced his bankers draft only to be told there has been a mistake made and he was 10% out on the agreed amount [][][] He told them where to poke it

Nice pople to do business with "not"

 

[RSGulp]

Would that be the company that sells Motors down Hendon Way - for collectors of modern art?

 

[Guest]

The thing that gets me is how do these people stay in business

Pehaps it's about time that car dealers weather independant traders or main dealers, of any sort should come undar the same level of regulation as the financial services industry, the FSA sorted out 99% the crocked advisors in very short shift.

Rodney

 

[daro911]

ORIGINAL: Rodney Collins

The thing that gets me is how do these people stay in business

Rodney

Human nature and man's need for greed I guess ... Everyone wants the best result when selling and a call from an interested 3rd party is just what human nature / greed want to hear []

We are enmeshed in the cancerous worship of "security" and in our devotion we
fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine-and before we know it our lives
are gone.

What does a person need-really need? Some food each day,heat and shelter,six
feet to lie down in and some form of working activity that will yield a sense
of accomplishment. That's all-in the material sense. And we know it!.

But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb
beneath a pyramid of time, payments,mortgages, preposterous gadgetry and
playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade.

The years thunder by, dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust
on the alter of wealth..

Before we know it the tomb is sealed. Where then lies the answer? In choice.
Which shall it be? Bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?

 

[Guest]

Daro, I don't think greed comes into it, (maybe on the Garage in question side) if one advertises a car for sale any make one is trying to get a better price than the dealers offer (that's not greed just econimic sense) and at the same time give the buyer a better deal than if he bought from a garage i.e a better car at a lesser price. If I operated in such a way in my business I would not last six months. One serious complaint and I would be fined out of existence with a high chance of being sent to Jail for 7 years. My public liablity insurance for which I pay £580pm ( yes per month and that's cheap by some standards ) would wash their hands of me. I would have thought that this particular north London garage would have such abad reputation that business would have cessed years ago.

 

[daro911]

ORIGINAL: Rodney Collins

Daro, I don't think greed comes into it,

I would have thought that this particular north London garage would have such abad reputation that business would have cessed years ago.

Good point well argued [] .... Whilst there are willing sellers prepared to let these clowns have there cars on an S.O.R. basis then it would apear this particular circus has been allowed to prosper and profit for over 5 decades so far [&o]

 

[vic cohen]

Dont worry chaps we cud start a club , first encounter he tried to sell me our '73 rs register sec car for £6000 in 1976,dates me and him ,in 1995 he tried the other way round buying my only new Porsche back at 18000 miles with those immortal words' i ll sell it while u pop up the road for a coffee'!!! No prizes for guessing outcome but i was older and wiser and drove it straight home ! Best return is when he was caught with a customers car on SOR on what was then called the Tour de France .............he did actually decide in the light of being caught inflagrante to pay up and buy it !
How he still uses his legs to walk is an amazement ................but his life has nt been all roses and frankly no one deserves to suffer as he did last year .....................

 

[Guest]

Vic, you can't end the story like that, what happened to him last year

Rodney

 

[carreraboy]

Hendoon Why Moaters .... they have had a Midnight Blue 993RS RHD for many years for sale, nice car it gets regularly repriced over the last five years, think it started at £50K and now is £90K I think.....obviously not a customer car, they have some pretty nice really old collectors Ferrari, Porsche etc round the back in the shed.....hear so many stories about these guys...[:-]

 

[vic cohen]

Well cud spoil a good thread , man is total watsit does nt change a thing ........................but his son was thrown out of the 'classic' Ferrari he was driving on the Tour Auto and killed ............not much to add to that if u have [had] children!

 

[Guest]

I think all of us who are parents would agree that no one would wish such an accident to any one even if as we obviously all know the propritior of this establishment is a crook.

Rodney

 

[Dylan1]

absolutely