I call about a 67 vert. 400 GS in the neighboring state's trade paper. The guy tells me he will never start the project and wants to sell. It is all there needing quarters and one floor. Motor run when parked, but sitting for many years in a barn. He then tells me $1100 buys it because he needs money and wants this thing gone. I'm happy with the price, so I take the day from work and immediately grab dad for the trip. 3 hours later, I'm at the store where he is supposed to meet us. I was even 10 minutes early (strange for me). Waited for 2 hours with no person showing. Called his phone number 3 mill. times. No answer. Called the trade paper to get an address. They only had a phone number. Eat lunch and wait a little longer while calling. Finally, gave up and traveled back home. Wasted all day! Cost time and money, not to mention dad bitching at me for the remaining 3 hours. :rant: Finally got his wife on the phone the following day. She says he is busy and can't come to the phone. I told her what happened and she said he was working in the garage where there is no phone. She then said she had to go, and maybe I would have luck getting him in the morning. Ever want to reach through a phone wire and grab someone's neck???? I have heard dad talk about someone's word being good. He also talks about verbal agreements and hand shakes. What happened to them? People just don't give a crap anymore. Lie, then go on and tell another lie later that day. An old handshake was much simpler and cheaper than today's lawyer contract. It meant more also. Shame I wasn't of that era. Rant is over now, thanks.
Yep, I have found peoples' words aren't worth anything anymore. Even when you have a written agreement, after you have come to a verbal agreement, they change things to their advantage on paper and try to slip it by you!!! :af: I feel your pain!!! :ball:
Sounds like his wife made him put it in the paper and as long as he goes through the motions and doesn't actually complete a sell, he can tell his wife "oh, sorry honey, these deals keep falling through. Eh, guess we'll just keep it."
I hate it when someone promises something and then doesn't follow through. :rant: I have been wanting to do some research on the net on how and why people lie. I learn more every day. I have heard some big lies especially about money from people who I used to think were upstanding Christians!!!!!!!!!! Here at work one of the boys says that there is a special place in H#*# for Christians who lie like a dog. Rant over.
And what's funny is that I don't know of any dogs that actually lie!!! :laugh: Just because you are a Christian doesn't mean you won't lie. Some of the "most popular" Christians on TV have been known to speak an untruth now and then! :spank: :laugh:
John.How would you have known the guy was a clown?? Good info for all reading..get phone #`s and adress before departure..I know I will.Too bad..Later,Tony.
Forget him, and the car to. If he ever calls back, string him along. There are good people out there, but to tell you to meet him somewhere and never show? That is Low.
I think that now, in this day, it's much easier to say you'll do something (through phone or email) and then totally blow it off cos you never really attached a face or a person to that thing. Back in the day (funny for me to say, being 22) personal contact kinda made people feel more of an obligation. Now we're all just words. Hell, look at this site. I've met maybe 10 people on this site, most of which are because of the local Buick club I'm in (but rarely have time to go to, which sucks.) People are just much more detached now than they were even a few years ago. There's my rant, that's my opinion, wha-la. :beer
First thing I'd think is that he found someone that wanted to pay more, so he didn't have the B_ _ _ s to tell you about it. Or didn't have the B _ _ _s to tell the other person it was already sold, just wanted to get that $$$$ no matter what he had promised to you. :rant: Sorry, could go on and on. Had a buyer for one of my cars, shook on the deal and everything. Then had him call back and say his wife didn't want it because it had a valve cover leak (He wouldn't have known if I didn't tell him-just being honest). So, I dropped the price to cover fixing the leak. He still wanted to go lower!!! :rant: :rant: :rant: You know what I told him, don't you!!!!! :af: :laugh: :laugh:
I had a similar experience in January. I kept running across a '70 GS on Collector Car Trader Online and finally decided to call the guy on a Sunday afternoon. Talked to him for about 2 hours on the phone about the car and car stuff. I could tell he was just as crazy about cars as I was. He never really had much action on the GS. His wife was away for a family funeral in California and he wasn't techically-savvy to upload some pictured for me in e-mail. We decided on him sending a video tape out on Monday so I could see what the car was like. I got it on Wednesday and watched it 7 or 8 times that night. I was really getting excited that I'd found a car. I called my best friend that night, got it arranged to drive to Denver that same Saturday afternoon and look at the car on Sunday. Thursday afternoon, I call the guy in Denver with the GS. This is where I wanted to jump through the phone. First thing he says, "You're never going to guess what happened?" My heart starts sinking at this point. Then he says, "One of my friends and his son came over Wednesday night and we just happened to go out to the garage." "My friend's son asks if I was firm on my price on the GS and I told him yes." At this point I'm really getting sick to my stomach. Turns out the kid came back with the money in hand and bought the car, he didn't even bother to tell him that he had a deal started with me. That really burned my hide, because I was prepared to purchase the car, just had to see it in person to make sure. I can totally relate to people's dishonesty and the ease at which they say one thing and do another. I have a really hard time with it myself. If I give someone my word, I will keep it. It tells a lot about what kind of character you've got. There's gonna be another car out there, it just really sucks when you think you've found that exact one you want at that moment. If it weren't for me getting duped, I wouldn't of found the car I purchased a few weeks ago and I do believe now, I'm a lot better off. Just keep the faith, your car is out there. :beer :TU:
Yes. "Go take a flying f... wait, wait, that's what I would have said. You're probably less mean than me
Been There!!! Had the same thing happen on a 65 Skylark GS in NY. Had the deal made and the trailor hooked up and ready to leave, about a 10 hour drive. The AHOLE called at the last minute saying he had a better offer( I tried to send him a deposit but he said no, we have a deal) but I could still have it for another $500.00! At least he caught me before I drug that trailor out there, it kept me out of jail and him out of the hospital. The car ended up on ebay a few months later and sold for less than I had the original deal for. I keep the faith that these guys will get what they deserve someday!! :rant: :rant: :rant:
Looks like he did by selling it for less than what you offered. Greed on his part didn't work out in the end. :blast: :spank:
Had the same thing happen to me just a different way. I drove two hours away from my house a few years back to go and buy a original owner car that was in exceptional condition. I got all the way out there and the guy opened up his garage let me look at the car and talk with him about it for an hour, and he even let me start it up. After all that when I offered him his asking price he told me that it was already sold. How can you show somebody a car for sale knowing they are really interested in buying it, only to show it to me for an hour and tell me everything about the car, only to already have it sold. As I heard from an earlier thread " I think they bus these people in". :rant: :spank: :blast:
This guys wife obviously wears the pants. It's probably her car too. :spank: I say blow it off, find yourself a buy from a trust worthy person. He was probably under the hood spraying last minute degreaser and lipstick.
I had a few similar things happen to me. A year ago someone ran an ad for a 462 project in pieces way up in Ohio. He had many calls but no money yet. I sent him a cashiers check for $2500 by fedex. I planned to fly up and rent a van and drive back to San Antonio. As I'm buying airplane tickets and such he calls and says someone came by and payed him for MY engine! At least he did mail me my money. About 15 years ago I met a Buick lover here in SA. I casually mentioned my GSX basket case that I had up at my Dad's ranch. I agreed to sell it for $1200 but when some other friends found out one offered me $2000. Proverbs 22:1 came to mind: A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. Also 11: 3&4- The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. Riches profit not in the day of wrath:but righteousness delivereth from death. Anyway, these verses ate at me enough that I sold it to the original guy and I really felt good about it knowing I was doing the right thing even if I was nearly giving away a rare car. By the way, I only paid $300 for it. I think that people that call themselves Christians but consistently do unchristian things are probably not really in covenant with Christ. You will know them by their fruit!
