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From: geoff on 3 Aug 2010 18:51
In message <i399e6$615$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Dug Wilder
<bluestar95(a)mail.invalid> writes
>What amusing phone call might be made to a not very nice bloke and his not
>very nice pal, who are re-advertising a car for sale that actually looks
>reasonably good, supposedly a lady owner, and only a small milage on it; but
>in reality is a worn out piece of rubbish. And they know this full well.
>
>It's easily gone right around the clock. Somebody is going to get really
>stung by these dishonest people. So what might one (legally) say in a phone
>call to give them a sleepless night and think twice before cheating someone?
>
>
Paging Adam

Or ... ask in UKRM

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geoff
From: Dave Plowman (News) on 3 Aug 2010 19:07
In article
<e3422662-0429-4a44-9ed5-16cc49c06684(a)d37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
Onetap <Onetap(a)talk21.com> wrote:
> On 3 Aug, 15:34, "Dug Wilder" <bluesta...(a)mail.invalid> wrote:
> Complaint to local trading standards?

Very unlikely they'll have the time to bother over just one example. The
majority of cars sold by certain sectors of the used car trade are
'clocked'.

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From: ARWadsworth on 3 Aug 2010 19:14
geoff <troll(a)uk-diy.org> wrote:
> In message <i399e6$615$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Dug Wilder
> <bluestar95(a)mail.invalid> writes
>> What amusing phone call might be made to a not very nice bloke and
>> his not very nice pal, who are re-advertising a car for sale that
>> actually looks reasonably good, supposedly a lady owner, and only a
>> small milage on it; but in reality is a worn out piece of rubbish.
>> And they know this full well. It's easily gone right around the clock.
>> Somebody is going to get
>> really stung by these dishonest people. So what might one (legally)
>> say in a phone call to give them a sleepless night and think twice
>> before cheating someone?
> Paging Adam

Why me? I have no ideas how to stop them with legal methods.

I also once sold a car that was a dangerous heap of shite.















I covered my back and called it a Ford Sierra in the advert.

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From: ARWadsworth on 3 Aug 2010 19:50
Tim Watts <tw(a)dionic.net> wrote:
> ARWadsworth <adamwadsworth(a)blueyonder.co.uk>
> wibbled on Wednesday 04 August 2010 00:14
>
>> I also once sold a car that was a dangerous heap of shite.
>>
>
> Not a crime if you don't hide the fact - so did my mate. A 1963
> Morris Mini. he was upfront and told the buyers to bring a trailer as
> the brakes were shot (amongst other things). Didn;t stop them driving
> it back to Belgium (or at least to end the of the village, for we
> never saw it again).
>
>>
>> I covered my back and called it a Ford Sierra in the advert.
>>
>
> How does that scale run?

I hid the full main dealers stamp on the service book:-)

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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 3 Aug 2010 20:31
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dug Wilder"
<bluestar95(a)mail.invalid> saying something like:

>What amusing phone call might be made to a not very nice bloke and his not
>very nice pal, who are re-advertising a car for sale that actually looks
>reasonably good, supposedly a lady owner, and only a small milage on it; but
>in reality is a worn out piece of rubbish. And they know this full well.
>
>It's easily gone right around the clock. Somebody is going to get really
>stung by these dishonest people. So what might one (legally) say in a phone
>call to give them a sleepless night and think twice before cheating someone?

Stuff the legality - phone up and make out you're from Trading
Standards.
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