Making a quick buck eh?? Also to add, the advert states the current owner did the mods etc, Incorrect its the new very brief owner of an already tuned coop selling it, and for reasons not stated..

http://pistonheads.com/sales/3925910.htm

Chrissy

But the ad says "purchased by myself in 2006" suggesting that it's Benny that's selling it - is this not the case?

EDIT - did my own detective work - "orridge1990" on here bought it from Benny in April

So what's the reason for selling then and why the subterfuge?

Dunno the answer Nigel but this is a previously banned member who has managed to sneak back in........and has been banned again!

Caveat emptor folks!


Edit; advert here looks awful similar to the PH one.....

I'll alert PH Admin

Thanks Nigel.

Copied and pasted the old advert. Even the mileage!!

Obviously not the brightest cookie this one

PH now alerted - makes my blood boil when someone is so shady about selling a car

Do we know anything about what's happened to the car since Benny sold it?

Not seen sight nor sound of it....

Even the pics are from here in S Wales,.

Yes - I remember visiting Benny a couple of years ago to buy his Accralite forged pistons off him - that's his garage that the Coupe is pictured outside

Kind of sad if its now suffering from any issues, When he had it for £2.5k it was THE bargain of the century, with NO expense spared,

I wanted it soooo bad.

Chrissy

Just had a reply from PH Admin - ad will be pulled very soon

Good to see they can react quickly

Advert now gone.

Well done everyone

Also now on EBay

But with the text changed to remove the "owned since 2006" and "2 previous owners"

Honesty prevails eventually - perhaps he twigged that he's being watched

is it this one?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-FIAT-COUP...#ht_1893wt_1185

Yes

Forgive me if I have missed it, but the current owner is now selling it, but he's lifted the old advert and used that to advertise it? Or has he done something else?

He was also prviously banned from this forum for various issues to do with selling goods and sending abusive, and threatening PMs to other members.

He subsequently tried to access the foum under various different identities, the latest being the orridge1990 alias.

All of which are against the rules which are intended to protect other members.

Appreciate he's barred from the forum, but he's trying to sell a car using old photos and telling a few white lies.

Isn't that what most car salesmen do, or am I also missing something?

The fact that some car salesmen may do so is irrelevant.

What he choses to do elsewhere is up to him, what does matter is that he is banned from the forum for very good reasons that were outlined earlier.

Is Pistonheads tied to the forum?

Exactly

If he makes a more accurate advert perhaps PH will accept it. I'm sure this isn't the first time when PH have refused an advert after it was flagged as containing false information.

Eh?

So you would prefer us not to alert PH to a fraudulent sale?

What would you then say to the new, unsuspecting owner when he turns up on this forum and it becomes apparent that we knew lies were being told but didn't do anything about it?

How pleased would you be if you found out there was a hidden past with your car AND we knew about it, but just because you bought the car elsewhere, we turned a blind eye.

I feel perfectly comfortable with my actions, and if the Ebay ad had been the same, I'd have shopped him to Ebay too

Absolutely. I don't understand why mikndo69 has a problem. I would be very seriously pissed off if I bought a car which the Forum knew was an issue but decided not to tell me out of fairness to the bent trying to sell it.

I would have concerns about a previous owner too

Ah a homage to the man who lent his name to the Falkland Islands' population.

Yep your missing the difference between right and wrong methinks......

One question, is the car worth £2000?

I agree with the points made about being pissed off if the car had issues and YES he deserves to be banned from the forum but I still think its a bit much to report it to PH.

Anyone who buys a coupe or any car like ours for that matter, would do a bit of research about what model to buy, things to look at etc... and would go on to a site like this and have a look and maybe ask some questions.

As a regular user on this forum, I often see posts about "Just bought this and have a few issues".

Maybe its the fact that I haven't been a member for that long and I did not have the pleasure of dealing with this person, so I do apologize to everyone I have offended. It seems I have been singled out for some reason.