Same here only ever put down 1k on new vans. A deposit has to be an amount you are prepared to right off.
We were asked for a £2,000 deposit by one dealer and I told him to poke it.
It shouldn't be. The difficult part of any wiring job is running the wires. Yours will all be in place because of the system you have at the moment. Just be sure to use someone who understands what you're asking - probably not your average dealer
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this is why i said £5k
Did you read scousebird correctly?, she told the dealer to poke it (keep ya MH I'll spend my money elsewhere).this is why i said £5k
if you're not committed why should the seller be, trust works both ways in my book, save nothing for no-one if they haven't lined your palm with silver
Im not so much saving it though ...i advertised it once back in may and then i had decided it was daft to sell it just now when the vario wasn't finished so i never listed it again. This guy had contacted me back then expressing interest but told me he didn't have money till late August. I never expected to hear from him again to be honest. But he's still keen.this is why i said £5k
if you're not committed why should the seller be, trust works both ways in my book, save nothing for no-one if they haven't lined your palm with silver
Iirc the asking price is £27.5k? If that was the agreed sale price and I was buying it I'd offer the £500 for the dipper. There's an old saying about a fool and his money.
yes I did and if the purchaser wasn’t prepared to leave a sizeable deposit they’d have to go elsewhere as i wouldn’t be selling anything to them lol
Then you wouldn't be selling many MH's then, well not to me.
I originally thought £500 but i thought £1k is harder for someone to lose. 4 weeks is a long time and its his doing not mine so i think thats fair. I left a grand on the frankia when i was buying it for much the same reason ...i wasn't getting the money from my house sale for 5 weeks . But they had been advertising that for months with no luck . Ive made it clear to this chap that im not fussed about selling it at present. In fact im almost doing him a favour lol
That's what happens when dealers start requesting deposits that the buyer isn't prepared to meet, and is the reason most dealers don't ask for silly money deposits.
That's fair enough, and if he's happy to pay it everyone's a winner.
that’s ok as I don’t sell motorhomes
Yes i plan toAre you going to weld the windows up yourself Tam. Well not the actual windows but the holes where they go.
I have some already ...not fitting them till after I've painted the bar
but im not taking the chance. I never got to drive it or the frankia when i bought it
Hmmm I understand your concern, on the other hand, you can learn on lot from a test drive about vehicle condition with yourselves on the controls, breaking in straight line, grip point of clutch, vibration in steering, gearbox engagement of gears, suspension/stabilising issues, torque at different revs, so I can see why it is an issue for him, I would think that you can find a particular safe road where he could be convinced that all is as should be? After proof of insurance and a deposit in your hands for excess?Might not have to bother about jeff the fireman ... he's been texting again all evening ...its like the Spanish inquisition.
He got around to asking if he could drive it on a test drive and was told no ...i told him if after he'd looked at it i would take him for a drive but he's saying its a deal breaker if he can't drive it
I did tell him that once he had the cash and he came to collect it that he could drive it then and see there were no issues. But he wasnt happy with that. I lost a car and the money from it many years ago because an idiot crashed it and walked away. I had to take him to court and won but he got a year to pay it and never did ...when i employed baillifs to recover the debt he was confined to HM barracks and apparently the wages of a soldier can't be arrested....long story short i lost the value of the car , additional court costs , payment for witness earnings etc etc .
As Ragnar would say " it is in the hands of the god's". If he doesn't buy it then it was meant to be.
He's putting a fair amount of effort in, if he's just a tyre kicker
I’ve sold a few of my bikes privately and the buyer didn’t get to test ride it till I had the full asking price in my hand (cash in those days). If he binned it it didn’t matter it was his.
Aye but ive met some professional time wasters over the years ...he did say he viewed 3 vans last week and he thought they were all rubbish.
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