I just found this car for sale... Sounds suspicious???

[Calumcco]

For that price I may buy it and take the boot and front bumpers off and put them on my current S280. I could also put some of the engine components from this one into mine???


http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...sed,nearlynew,new/page/2/radius/100?logcode=p

 

[gizze]

He says....

I have no idea what its worth so make me a sensible offer.,

The £95 price is to get in onto page 1.

 

[dozypillock]

For that price I may buy it and take the boot and front bumpers off and put them on my current S280. I could also put some of the engine components from this one into mine???


http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...sed,nearlynew,new/page/2/radius/100?logcode=p

Shame there is no "buy it now" button?.....lol

Neil

 

[PovertySpec]

He says....The £95 price is to get in onto page 1.

It worked, they'll be queueing up!

 

[DSB SL AMG]

Gotta be worth a few hundred quid at least even to a MB breaker...

 

[KennyN]

This one is a better buy

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...rs/quicksearch/true/postcode/pa13bn?logcode=p

Although it does say POA at the end of the add , maybe the guy that submitted yours forgot to put the POA disclaimer at the end of his add.

Kenny

 

[epervier]

For that price I may buy it and take the boot and front bumpers off and put them on my current S280. I could also put some of the engine components from this one into mine???


http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...sed,nearlynew,new/page/2/radius/100?logcode=p

I'd of thought the other way round, yours if memory serves, has a punched in bootlid and other damage, engine doesn't run properly, buy this one and rob anything worthwhile from your old car, at least this one runs and has a mot for a year.KISS

 

[syncropaddy]

Whats the legal standing on an ad like that? I think I'll offer £90

 

[d215yq]

If you did manage to get it for a good price, and given the advert is correct it works and has a year´s mot and it looks presentable, why on earth would you start swapping bits off it onto another one that doesn´t work (and has a long term history of not working!).

Go and see it and offer him something like 4 or 5 hundred if it works and you might get lucky. then you can keep the non working one as a spares car for this!

 

[television]

Not easy, some folk used to think that if an article was in a shop window and priced incorrectly that they had right to buy it for that price, that is not the case and the seller only has to say " I do not wish to sell that today" and remove the offending price ticket.

 

[Calumcco]

If you did manage to get it for a good price, and given the advert is correct it works and has a year´s mot and it looks presentable, why on earth would you start swapping bits off it onto another one that doesn´t work (and has a long term history of not working!).

Go and see it and offer him something like 4 or 5 hundred if it works and you might get lucky. then you can keep the non working one as a spares car for this!

Sounds like a good idea! I may just do that. However he will get £95 and not a penny more as that is what he has advertised the car at

 

[epervier]

FFS, two short planks come to mind, it's like pulling teeth sometimes on here

 

[wheelie]

An advert for "ANY" item is classed as an "invitation to treat" therefore the seller is not making an offer they are simply inviting offers.

E.g. A supermarket is selling a BBQ for £100 and some Pratt takes off the 0 so it reads as £10. The purchaser is making the offer and it can be refused by the seller should they wish.

So it looks like the seller is well within their rights to put it up for £100. Go ahead and offer £95 it makes no difference, they have to decide to accept it or refuse to sell it

 

[MBDevotee]

If you did manage to get it for a good price, and given the advert is correct it works and has a year´s mot and it looks presentable, why on earth would you start swapping bits off it onto another one that doesn´t work (and has a long term history of not working!).

Go and see it and offer him something like 4 or 5 hundred if it works and you might get lucky. then you can keep the non working one as a spares car for this!

+1

 

[deejaybee]

Forget the W140!

Callum, by your own admission you have very little money to spend on a car and by your previous posts it sems unlikely that you have the skills, tools etc to keep one of these on the road without having to pay others to work on the car.

Even if your car or the one being advertised was in good running order it would be about the last thing in the world (other than an old Bently or Roller!) that anyone would recommend to someone who needs cheap motoring. They may have been the best that mercedes produced at the time, but they will never be any good for someone on a budget.

If I were you I would be looking for a basic small Japanese car like Honda, Toyota or Suzuki. Even then you need to have your wits about you when buying under £1000 to be sure that you are not being landed with someone elses problem!

 

[Abb]

'There is nothing more expensive to buy, then a cheap Mercedes Benz', I was once told by someone much wiser then myself!