Thought for the day

Simple - never trust a car salesman

I'm selling my old car to a main dealer and my 9 to 5 company is buying me a company car from them. The deals are seperate but it was explicitly (i.e. I told them) clear to all parties that the new deal was contingent on getting a good price on my car.

Everything is signed and sealed - monies due to be transferred by my company tomorrow to pay for the company car and I was dropping mine off on Thursday lunch and picking the shiny new one up at the same time.

Went in this am to show them the logbook etc on mine (this was the third visit and I even bought the car from them 12 months ago).

Can you guess what happened next ?

Got back to the office at home, sat down, call from the dealer - my car is apparently not the vehicle they thought and the offer has dropped by £ 1600 !!! It has to do with whether it has a turbo or not - they never once asked me and frankly I wouldn't have had a clue if they hade - I'd have referred them to either the log book or the guy who sold me it a year ago (who by the way I saw this morning as I was in the showroom).

Anyway, they called back half an hour ago and offered me £ 750 more - so someone's end of month bonus is clearly at risk.

I'm lumbered though now with a company car, a deal on mine which doesn't cover the o/s finance and two agreements one of which they've voided and another one with my 9 to 5 company which theoretically I have the authority to pull out of but then leaves them open up to a breach of contract suit.

I'm a simple honest guy who pays his taxes, (mostly) obeys speed limits and doesn't really want the aggro

So I'm having a think about the best course of action and whether Monday is the best day to start breaching legal agreements : - (

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