PlagueOfBadgers
Well-Known Member
Like I mentioned in the welcome wagon, my wife and I pick up our son's 73 Satellite for his Birthday, and here's how it happened.
We had dropped my son off at his friends house and went on down the road to go grocery shopping. On our way there, I passed this car sitting in an abandoned gas station parking lot and saw that for sale sign in the window. I turned around and went back to investigate. After looking over the car and looking at the asking price, I took down the phone number, got back in the car and told my wife, they're asking too much. It's a good car but just too much money. I told her I would call the number and see if there was any wiggle room with the price. I never called. After driving by the car for two months it disappeared from the side of the road. Told my wife, just wasn't meant to be, we will look elsewhere. Another month or so went by and we were on our way to pick my son up from his work. While on our way to his work I passed one of my co-workers house and what do I see sitting in his driveway, yes the car I looked at 3 months ago. I called him that second to see how much he paid for the car, his reply was, I didn't buy it I am just holding on to it, I said it's still for sale, yes. I asked him if he thinks the owner will go down with the price, his reply was, call him and ask. I gave in and said ok what's his name and give me the number, I don't know where I put it. He told me it's John _______ car, I said John the John we both work with? Yup. I hung up the phone called John, made the deal at a good price, picked up our son from work went back to my friends house, picked up the car and we drove it home.
We had dropped my son off at his friends house and went on down the road to go grocery shopping. On our way there, I passed this car sitting in an abandoned gas station parking lot and saw that for sale sign in the window. I turned around and went back to investigate. After looking over the car and looking at the asking price, I took down the phone number, got back in the car and told my wife, they're asking too much. It's a good car but just too much money. I told her I would call the number and see if there was any wiggle room with the price. I never called. After driving by the car for two months it disappeared from the side of the road. Told my wife, just wasn't meant to be, we will look elsewhere. Another month or so went by and we were on our way to pick my son up from his work. While on our way to his work I passed one of my co-workers house and what do I see sitting in his driveway, yes the car I looked at 3 months ago. I called him that second to see how much he paid for the car, his reply was, I didn't buy it I am just holding on to it, I said it's still for sale, yes. I asked him if he thinks the owner will go down with the price, his reply was, call him and ask. I gave in and said ok what's his name and give me the number, I don't know where I put it. He told me it's John _______ car, I said John the John we both work with? Yup. I hung up the phone called John, made the deal at a good price, picked up our son from work went back to my friends house, picked up the car and we drove it home.
. Finally the guy at the shop checked with his bank and the wired money was deposited in his Canadian account and not his U.S. account, he apologized 10 times over for not checking it out more carefully but he thought I was trying to scam him as I did most dealing threw emails (don't like talking on the damn phone). Lesson learned call in person.
