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Moral Dilemma Time: Should I pay for this?

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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    Tell him it was you that bought the car, you've found a scratch somewhere else and you want, say, £400-£600 off the price you paid. Then, very generosity offer to call it quits. 
  • Radostanradical
    Radostanradical Posts: 847
    edited October 18
    Dont see any moral dillema at all. You offered to pay for damage and he didnt get back to you.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,678
    edited October 18
    Tell him you’ll pay him what he wants in cash, you will meet him, tell him to bring the car and you’ll bring a Monday to get your money worth.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,492
    Mind boggling
  • cafc4life
    cafc4life Posts: 4,634
    Ask for his bank details and then send him 1p with the reference, ‘ get it right up you’. 
  • KingKinsella
    KingKinsella Posts: 1,321
    Buy him a  bottle of T-Cut
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,824
    he's probably got a few additional scratches since then £300-£500!!

    he had his chance to take up your offer

    ignore it now
  • Brownie12
    Brownie12 Posts: 1,531
    Blokes taking the piss. Ignore. 
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,438
    Got to be a fucking windup this
  • Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch
    Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch Posts: 1,790
    Ignore completely, don't get dragged into a discussion.

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  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,370
    Radio silence is the way here. Let him take it through his insurance if he feels you have any responsibility after all this time. He won’t do anything as things don’t work the way he wants or thinks they can. 

  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,199
    Leroy Ambrose said:
    Got to be a fucking windup this
    That's really helpful, nice one. 
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,812
    Sadly, as the old saying goes, "No good deed goes unpunished."

    A former girlfriend of mine backed her car into someone's front gate - causing minor damage.

    They then took her to the small claims court, arguing that she should pay to have the entire front garden wall replaced - cheeky bastards.

    The court ruled that she should only pay for a new gate, she was only a student so ended up paying 5 quid  a month for a couple of years to pay it off! 
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,189
    During my time in the Motor Trade I would do body repair estimates.  So the Insurance Company would send Joe Bloggs in his Hillman Hunter, Triumph Herald for an estimate 
    He would turn up in an old pile of… and then want a full respray for the cost of a new light lens and a quick bash about and panel spray.

     I would tell the owner I will “blow it over “ for a £100, this was back in the 70s. We give him a kosher estimate for his insurance company and 9 out of 10.they would wet themselves to get the spray. 

    Wash ,and valet ,steam the engine bay.  Cut the paint with rubbing compound, Simoniz , machine polish the bonnet, clean the windscreen properly.
    Tyre black the wheel jobs a gooden!  Saturday afternoon all done. About 2 hrs for 2 of us 
    If it didn’t rain it would last about a month, if it did all bets were off. But never had a knock back, That’s when I loved being a mechanic 
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,678
    Ormiston_Addick said:
    Sadly, as the old saying goes, "No good deed goes unpunished."

    A former girlfriend of mine backed her car into someone's front gate - causing minor damage.

    They then took her to the small claims court, arguing that she should pay to have the entire front garden wall replaced - cheeky bastards.

    The court ruled that she should only pay for a new gate, she was only a student so ended up paying 5 quid  a month for a couple of years to pay it off! 
    Sounds like an open & shut case unlike the gate, after she pranged it.

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