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Quote: Originally posted by Tigermouse on 16/5/2010

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Well if that was in 'perfect' condition I wouldn't like to see a bad one! A shame you had a wasted journey, fingers crossed the one on ebay is right for you - have you been to see it?

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So sorry to read of your wasted trip, shame people cant be honest!!  Have you tried Preloved - picked up a beautiful van today from thier site and only 5 miles from home.  Hopefully your next venture will prove to be much more sucessful and you can forget such a horrid experience.

Liz

Quote: Originally posted by Kypn on 16/5/2010

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So sorry to read of your wasted trip, shame people cant be honest!!  Have you tried Preloved - picked up a beautiful van today from thier site and only 5 miles from home.  Hopefully your next venture will prove to be much more sucessful and you can forget such a horrid experience.

Liz

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It's so annoying when people aren't honest in the way they describe things.  150 wasted miles just because they couldn't describe it honestly.

Still, let's hope the one you're bidding on is the one for you.  We're only in Manchester but don't really know enough about what we're looking at to offer to go see it for you.  I'd hate to say it's OK for you to find problems later.  Would it be worth getting a local mobile engineer to give it the once over before you set off to collect it?

I was dreading this kind of scenario when we began looking for a new van' last summer. So when we pulled up outside a house in Stoke & saw the van thats now ours, & it was totally spotless I knew we were onto something. Inside it was equally the same, the oven was like new. Owners had kept it in a barn in France for previous two Winters while they were renovating a barn, so that helped.

Likewise when I sold our old one I took dozens of photos & uploaded them to my Flickr account & put the link on the Ebay ad. Chap that bought travelled 200 miles to collect & was chuffed to bits because I had been totally honest. We could have sold it a dozen times over in the end.

I had this last year when I was looking. I live in Kent and did a round trip to Lancashire only to see a van that was less than perfect.

When I turned up, it was imediatly obvious to me that the van had been damaged and repaired, badly as well, the skin colour didnt even match. When I asked the guy, I was met with, oh, never really noticed that before. Really? Are you blind? I wasted a whole day and a tank of fuel on that round trip. I was fuming!

I learnt a decent lesson though, if it looks or sounds to good to be true, It damn well is!

Quote: Originally posted by Tigermouse on 16/5/2010

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What's the ebay item no., if you don't mind me asking?

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Hi again

We went down to Barrons at Darlington before we bought our last caravan quite number of years ago to see what they had. We looked at a Compass 2 berth endwashroom, a little more than we wanted to spend, salesman seemed a bit annoyed as he thought he had a sale, we said we would have to come home look at the finances and see if we could afford it. I said I would phone on the Friday morning as see if they still had it, he said they did so I said we would be down first thing on the Saturday morning. We left really early, got there couldnt see it, it had been moved to the sold caravans. When we asked him he said someone had bought it that morning before we arrived, considering they had only been open about three quarters of an hour we very much doubted it, I think it had been sold during the week and he only said what he did as I am sure he thought that after coming all that distance we would buy something else, we didnt. We were glad because about two weeks later we bought our avante from Perthshire Caravans costing a lot more than we were going to spend there. For us that was a wasted journey, the same as going all that way to look at someone elses rubbish. Hang in there will be something you like and buy. I am away to ebay now for a nosey.