imiksimi

Seriously this all does my head in, I'm not a trader, but I often buy spares and repairs / " trade cars " / ebay auctions To find traders are getting hassled from domestic buyers on cheap cars is quite ridiculous. If I go to buy or bid to buy anything under 3k I expect the next stop in the car is a garage to have it checked over and repaired. What the hell is wrong with people, you'll buy an Iphone for 1k but expect a working car for less than 3k, are you mad ?. What does my head in is this does directly affect me as am willing to buy a car for what it is, If I bid at any auction ebay or otherwise, I'll go pay and collect ... no test drive .. no nonsense, If I wanted a test drive I should has asked before auction ended in my eyes. But with the nanny state backing these morons it leaves me worse off. As lots of Traders won't dare sell to domestic. I'd rather pay £1000 and buy say a " Bad " Focus ST2 off a trader and take it to a garage and maybe spend £1500 - £2000 sorting it Then buy a £3500 private that is in pretty much the same condition and will need the same repairs a year or so later. and nope it doesn't always end well , bought a focus for £255 that blew its gearbox after 6 months , So rang scrap yard told them they could have it left V5 in glove box and taxi to work..... but wait that means it cost £42.50 a month and had heated windscreen and was about as nippy as you'll ever need. So really a bargain and yes granted it could have done this on the way home from buying it... but that would just be tough for me as £255 for a car is a stupid price. So basically does this mean it's the end of me buying cheap runabouts and fixing up the lucky ones and scraping the bad ones, all because everybody wants something for nothing and the government is backing them up ? nice, because in the end I think I pay about the same as everybody else in the long run except I know what works been done and by who. Shame cause my friends that buy the lucky ones off me after am bored of them will be gutted.