Steverino
black sheep
I really do. I put my Mustang on CL earlier this week, got a buyer immediately, he's young, but a nice young man, brought his wife and baby along. We looked it over, I was more than specific with everything I could think of, and any fault or issue the car had. We took a test drive. I gave him a trunkload of extra parts. I came down 800 bucks from my list price. I asked him again (when he handed me the cash) "are you sure, do you want to look it over again?"
The CL ad and the bill of sale specifically said "AS IS", that's just because the car is 27 freakin' years old.
The next day he calls me, the fuel pump has failed and he's broke down somewhere in New Orleans. He's not happy. I can fully sympathize, I'd be bummed beyond words if I'd just bought a car and a day later it's broke.
In 7 years of owning that car, I never had any problems, never left me stranded. Within 24hrs in hands of a new owner, it's on a tow hook. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do, if anything. I've offered to pay for a new pump and walk him thru the installation process. An electric fuel pump can fail anytime, I'm not faulting him for that. It's just really stuck in my craw that it crapped out the day after the car changed owners.
Thing is, a sale took place and now both parties are unhappy. I really hate this. I did not set out to screw someone out of money, but I can't help but feel that's exactly what he's thinking.
He's an offshore worker (2 weeks in, 2 weeks out) and he leaves this morning, so the whole drama is now on hold for that duration. I'm kinda relieved about that, gives me time to vent and think this over.
I have to sell another this month, my S10. I swear, I'm going to grill the next guy, and make damn sure he knows that that truck could explode in a giant ball of fire as soon as he drives it off, and if it does, don't call me, just get out, hit the ground and roll, then start walking.
The CL ad and the bill of sale specifically said "AS IS", that's just because the car is 27 freakin' years old.
The next day he calls me, the fuel pump has failed and he's broke down somewhere in New Orleans. He's not happy. I can fully sympathize, I'd be bummed beyond words if I'd just bought a car and a day later it's broke.
In 7 years of owning that car, I never had any problems, never left me stranded. Within 24hrs in hands of a new owner, it's on a tow hook. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do, if anything. I've offered to pay for a new pump and walk him thru the installation process. An electric fuel pump can fail anytime, I'm not faulting him for that. It's just really stuck in my craw that it crapped out the day after the car changed owners.
Thing is, a sale took place and now both parties are unhappy. I really hate this. I did not set out to screw someone out of money, but I can't help but feel that's exactly what he's thinking.
He's an offshore worker (2 weeks in, 2 weeks out) and he leaves this morning, so the whole drama is now on hold for that duration. I'm kinda relieved about that, gives me time to vent and think this over.
I have to sell another this month, my S10. I swear, I'm going to grill the next guy, and make damn sure he knows that that truck could explode in a giant ball of fire as soon as he drives it off, and if it does, don't call me, just get out, hit the ground and roll, then start walking.