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Problem is you may have many people wanting to see, you dont put any off as some may not turn up at all, and you sell to the first one who agrees to buy, what else can you do?

I suspect you were asked to leave it a day while a first buyer had seen and bought or not, or even not turn up.

Dont worry,there will be other vans.Why dont you put a wanted ad in your local press and then it is you who can decide when to view at a time to suit you.Its a lot less stressful buying a van this way instead of racing to view a van before someone else gets there.

Not sure what you expect them to do. They want to sell the van - they have got a willing buyer - are they supposed to say sorry can't sell it to you cos I got this other bloke who may buy it when he see's it.

How will viewer number one feel about that ? how will the seller feel if you look but don't buy?

Thats life I am afraid

At least they had the decency to phone and tell you that they had sold it.You would've been even madder if you went all the way there and they told you on the doorstep.

Quote: Originally posted by caris on 06/2/2010

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Well perhaps others dont have the same values as I do. If I have sold things in the past, and someone has asked for it and is coming to have a look I tell others callers that someone is looking first, then call as necessary, I would never treat people like that, I treat people as I would like to be treated, and I expect others to abide with what they say. Perhaps I am too honest and nieve.

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You will find none more honest and honourable than me but I am not naive.

What sort of van are you looking for?

We have the opposite problem.  We have just ordered a new van, but have chickened out of trying to sell ours privately.

Ours is in secure storage, so the nightmare of inviting people to meet us as the storage and perhaps turn out to be tyre-kicking time wasters is very off-putting.   The difficulty of doing that during daylight hours is also a bit of a problem.

Plus, we feel dubious about taking a large payment from a complete stranger and completing the transation safely.  What if a buyer were to trouble us after the sale, over some problem they encountered with the van?

I guess its never bloomin easy whichever side of the fence you are on.

I hope you find the 'right' van for you soon.  Once you have, you will realise that all those failed viewings were 'meant to be'.

Mrs UM.