Seriously?

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Stephen Edwin

Please advise me. Is that why the listing says:

“genuine barn find”

PLEASE NOT THIS IS A BARN FIND BUT VERY VERY STRIAGHT CAR

Stephen

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Reading the rest of what the seller has "tepyd" it's obviously a typo or mis-spelling and should read "Please note".

Originally Posted by Stephen Edwin

Dave.

At five I had not even heard of the alphabet! OK so yes it shows!

But I had received teaching of reading at the kitchen table of a teacher wot lived next door and very quickly lapped it up. Kushtie.

Why mock ye the seller?

If my language woz less off the wall I might try volunteer to help people learn to read. and if my health improved ...

Stephen

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I was reading The Telegraph at the age of 4 - granted i didn't understand 99% of what the content was about but that isn't the point, i was capable of reading it.

I wasn't mocking the seller, just pointing out that most 5 year olds these days are actually proficent typists/computer users (although generally on tablets and phones rather than "real" computers) because they've been brought up with it as second nature.

However, it's highly likely that the seller has dyslexia or some similar problem which i would never mock. Once upon a time and scarily up until very recently, dyslexia wasn't accepted as a genuine condition and (for want of a better word) sufferers were generally viewed as lazy, stupid, trouble-makers, disruptive and various other negative connotations that could be applied to a problem nobody wanted to recognise and even fewer knew how to go about fixing.

I'm no expert on dyslexia but have known many people through my life that have it and my ex-wife had it too so i've become fairly adept at spotting the common signs. I could still be wrong and the seller just didn't finish school and/or had a poor attendance record and didn't learn anything much but IMHO that's the most likely cause of the poor advert. That said most people with dyslexia generally find someone else to write the ads for them to avoid confusion.

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

That's the one Alan, i got the price a bit wrong and it's a GL not a GLE (it was the wheels made me think it was a GLE) but familiar nonetheless. It's on Pg 145 of this months (July issue) Practical Classics which should be on magazine shelves of your chosen emporium at the moment.

They presumably think people who buy cars from magazines don't use fora or ebay.........

Ah yes, you are absolutely right Dave, that is the nasty brown car.

I don't think I've ever read Practical Classics (but I may buy my first copy this month out of curiosity - I'll see if perhaps it is available on Kindle as I'm not very mobile at the mo).

It would seem odd (to me, that being no authority on the matter whatsoever) that anyone interested in buying a classic car would not do some research via a forum (such as this excellent one) and eBay to gauge the market rather than just buy any old overpriced crap in a glossy. I have a feeling that £3250 was an even higher price than the vendor was asking via eBay. I do so hope no one falls for it this time.

:-)

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Stephen Edwin

Please advise me.
Simply typos type stuff, but any reader already knew that ...

Stephen

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Okay clever man, see if you can find the errors in this passage (sic):

WILL NEED SOME WORK IN PLACES ...
IT STARTS BUT IT DOES MISS AS OLD PETROL AND
AS A BLOW ON THE DOWN PIPE CAUSEING AIR INTAKE

PLEASE NOT THIS IS A BARN FIND BUT VERY VERY STRIAGHT CAR

HAS FULL SERVICE HISTORY UPTO 109OOO
1 OWNER FROM NEW
114000 ON THE CLOCK
STACK PAPERWOOK WITH IT AND BOOT FULL OF SPARES
THIS IS ONLY A VERY VERY LIGHT WORK INVOLVED TO BE PUT BACK ON RAOD
EVERY THING WORKSAS IT SHOULD

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Othen

Ah yes, you are absolutely right Dave, that is the nasty brown car.

I don't think I've ever read Practical Classics (but I may buy my first copy this month out of curiosity - I'll see if perhaps it is available on Kindle as I'm not very mobile at the mo).

It would seem odd (to me, that being no authority on the matter whatsoever) that anyone interested in buying a classic car would not do some research via a forum (such as this excellent one) and eBay to gauge the market rather than just buy any old overpriced crap in a glossy. I have a feeling that £3250 was an even higher price than the vendor was asking via eBay. I do so hope no one falls for it this time.

:-)

The nasty brown car does indeed have a bit of history in this thread Dave:

https://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showp...&postcount=669

It looks like the price has variously been between £3,500 and £2,750, the seller has tried eBay (many times) as well as Car & Classic. One would have thought he/she would have got the idea by now that one can't polish a turd.

[Stephen Edwin]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

Reading the rest of what the seller has "tepyd" it's obviously a typo or mis-spelling and should read "Please note".

Quite so.

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

I was reading The Telegraph at the age of 4 - granted i didn't understand 99% of what the content was about but that isn't the point, i was capable of reading it..

Well done ...

For myself I am glad that as I grew older I thought about things and wrote a letter of thanks to the teacher neighbour. Before her horrible tragic death.

Rest her soul.

*****

Me says you woz at least disparaging re that seller.


Stephen

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[Stephen Edwin]

Originally Posted by Othen

Okay clever man

Thank you.

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

Reading the rest of what the seller has "tepyd" it's obviously a typo or mis-spelling and should read "Please note".

I agree with Dave. It's obviously a typo or mis-spelling.

Stephen

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[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Othen

Ah yes, you are absolutely right Dave, that is the nasty brown car.

I don't think I've ever read Practical Classics (but I may buy my first copy this month out of curiosity - I'll see if perhaps it is available on Kindle as I'm not very mobile at the mo).

It would seem odd (to me, that being no authority on the matter whatsoever) that anyone interested in buying a classic car would not do some research via a forum (such as this excellent one) and eBay to gauge the market rather than just buy any old overpriced crap in a glossy. I have a feeling that £3250 was an even higher price than the vendor was asking via eBay. I do so hope no one falls for it this time.

:-)

You can get PC in digital editions Alan, (think you may have to subscribe though), i'm still on "real" magazines as i don't want to leave a device in the "library" to read them on.

I agree, a novice to the classic car world would join a forum and do other online research and not just buy blind. I think the £3250 is overpriced too and maybe when i said £2850 it was my subconscious self suggesting what the seller expects to get when a bunch of fivers are waved under his snout.

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

You can get PC in digital editions Alan, (think you may have to subscribe though), i'm still on "real" magazines as i don't want to leave a device in the "library" to read them on.

I agree, a novice to the classic car world would join a forum and do other online research and not just buy blind. I think the £3250 is overpriced too and maybe when i said £2850 it was my subconscious self suggesting what the seller expects to get when a bunch of fivers are waved under his snout.

... I was more thinking the car was worth £850 Dave - more seriously: £1850 would seem about right. If my memory serves me rightly that car has been for sale since November.

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Othen

... I was more thinking the car was worth £850 Dave - more seriously: £1850 would seem about right. If my memory serves me rightly that car has been for sale since November.

Think you're right with the £850 valuation Alan, also about November but that might just have been when you first noticed it. In which case, Novemeber might still be right but which November?

Sadly unless you cross reference a lot of ebay sold listings or finished listings, we won't ever know and even then, i think there's a time limit on finding old listings.

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

Think you're right with the £850 valuation Alan, also about November but that might just have been when you first noticed it. In which case, Novemeber might still be right but which November?

Sadly unless you cross reference a lot of ebay sold listings or finished listings, we won't ever know and even then, i think there's a time limit on finding old listings.

We see these very long term advertising campaigns - over months and even years - quite frequently Dave. I suppose there is always a chance of finding a punter at an absurd price, but with something like a Volvo 244 the pool of punters will be pretty small. It seems (to me) that the group of people looking for a 40ish year old 244DL in poor condition and in need of renovation may be measured in tens across the nation at any time. It is hard for me to imagine those few tens of people will not have all done their homework and have noticed the nasty brown car for sale at all sorts of prices and probably discounted it.

I’m just curious about prices and values, I think the brown car is rubbish and would not consider it.

Alan