Seller reneges...options?

[Junkman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( To me a deal is a deal.... I've made deals on vehicles over the phone without looking at it... drove to the dealership later that afternoon or next day and sealed the deal. )</font>

Am I correct in assuming that you are talking about the purchase of a new vehicle? I doubt that I, nor any one with a lick of common sense, would buy any used vehicle without first examining it. There might be some exceptions, but those would be exceptional, such as your father in laws car or some extenuating circumstances such as this.

 

[AndyM]

<font color="blue"> Am I correct in assuming that you are talking about the purchase of a new vehicle? I doubt that I, nor any one with a lick of common sense, would buy any used vehicle without first examining it. There might be some exceptions, but those would be exceptional, such as your father in laws car or some extenuating circumstances such as this. </font>

I bought a car, sight unseen, on Ebay once.
Of course it was only $300, and it was only about 25 miles away. I started the car, paid the guy, and drove it home!

Has anyone else ever make a major purchase sight unseen?

 

[GerardC]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ....over the phone without looking at it... drove to the dealership later that afternoon or next day and sealed the deal...... )</font>

"Drove to the dealership" then sealed the deal!

After you had seen what it was you sealed the deal.... paperwork can be done through postal service, fax, or e-mail. I've done it! You looked at it first, sorry. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[MossRoad]

If you saw it, then paid the guy, it was not sight unseen. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[AndyM]

<font color="blue"> If you saw it, then paid the guy, it was not sight unseen. </font>

But Ebay is a binding contract, and anyone honest would have gone through with the deal no metter what. Right? /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[SteveH_CT]

Same type of deal - More $$ - about $2400 I think - I bought a car from a guy on ebay who had an excellent rating - sight unseen...BUT - it was with the provision that I could get out of the deal if the car didn't pass my inspection once I did see it. No problems it was a wonderful car and I ended up giving it to my nephew.

 

[Poncho]

Yep... new car dealership. But actually there are quite a few things that are bought without someone examining them such as antique cars, furniture etc. These are not considered exceptional or extenuating... but rather the norm today... and they are done by people with lots of licks of common sense

 

[OkeeDon]

<font color="blue"> The problem is that the buyer did not tender, nor did the seller accept, any consideration (value) for the promise to hold/sell the tractor. A contract without consideration is not a contract and is therefore legally unenforceable.
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Isn't a promise consideration? "I promise the tractor in exchange for the money"; "I promise the money in exchange for the tractor." I don't think the wording has to be that exact; "I'll sell you the tractor for $10,000"; "I agree to pay you $10,000 for the tractor." Each party has made a promise, the repective promises construe the consideration; is there not an oral contract?

 

[GerardC]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ....I don't think the wording has to be that exact.... )</font>

If you go to court, then wording is everything! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[Junkman]

Now you have changed this from used vehicles to antique cars and furniture. Since you have upped the ante to antique cars, something that I am very experienced with, how many do you think are sold sight unseen, no pictures, without a sellers history of good faith for big dollars? I can tell you from many friends experiences, that when it comes to antique cars, it is even more difficult to purchase sight unseen than a used car. With a antique, you have no idea of what could be wrong, from the engine having been replace and being incorrect for the car to a host of other problems. I stand by my original statement. The more the $$ the more important it is to examine the item. Fraud abounds the world over and just because there are a lot of good and honest people on TBN, that doesn't mean that there might not be some bad apples in the bunch. I don't believe that most of the people of TBN would send money to someone that they didn't know to purchase a expensive tractor that they have never seen. The same goes for a used car. If you have done so and haven't gotten burned, consider yourself lucky. Keep doing what you have been doing successfully and I am certain that one day you will bemoaning some bad deal on these forums also as a result.