Dodgy character wanting to buy van

[izwozral]

Just a thought @Boris7, could the person you witnessed have had a drink spiked?

 

[JQB]

I seem to remember a thread on here where people had had someone coming to the door wanting to buy their van.
Just happened to us. My OH answered the door to a kid who asked if we wanted to sell it. On saying no his, presumably, dad who was sitting in a flash car started asking weird questions like 'if we did want to sell it what would we want' and how much did we think it was worth.
Had English accents.
Very unsetting, especially as we live in a close which is, itself, on a dead end road and you can't see the van from the road...

Flash car, newish and top of the range a merc 4x4?
There are an awful lot of them sited around these parts. Hope it does not vanish overnight.

 

[JQB]

I have had a knock on the van door with a couple of guys wanting to buy the van, kept trying to persuade me til I said where am I supposed to sleep if I sell it to you

And tarmac the drive too? Turn them down and get them of the premises after forever but
If they see you have any ornaments,plant pots etc they may vanish overnight - happened to us.

 

[wildebus]

And tarmac the drive too? Turn them down and get them of the premises after forever but
If they see you have any ornaments,plant pots etc they may vanish overnight - happened to us.

When I lived in St Albans, I used to get guys knock on the door with a variation on the tarmac game .... "tree surgeons" doing a job up the road and saw one of my trees could do with being crowned.
I could tell the last guy was a totally genuine character as he gave me his business card ... Name, Mobile Number and Address. only problem was the address was something like "A5, London" so dead easy to find his yard, eh?

 

[gasgas]

When I lived in St Albans, I used to get guys knock on the door with a variation on the tarmac game .... "tree surgeons" doing a job up the road and saw one of my trees could do with being crowned.
I could tell the last guy was a totally genuine character as he gave me his business card ... Name, Mobile Number and Address. only problem was the address was something like "A5, London" so dead easy to find his yard, eh?

I had a business card from a guy who answered my advert for having a new roof on my house. I looked up the address on his business card on Google Maps. It was a genuine road in the correct town. I then switched to Street View. The number of the premises, plus five numbers each side, were a petrol station and used car lot.

The last time a person came up my drive looking at my camper asking if I wanted to sell . I said yes. (actually I specifically did not want to sell it.) He said how much? I said well everything has a price doesn't it? He said yes. I said it's £60,000. the actual value was about £35k. He started effing and blinding saying it's not worth 20. I replied that I did say it is for sale, and the price is £60,000. Would you have preferred me to tell a lie and say it is not for sale? Either you give me £60,000 and I'll give you the keys and log book, or you go away. He went away.