brought a dud landrover any tips

**pfillery** · 16th July 2011, 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by alexturner

How did you pay for the item? Paypal insures you with purchases. I'm not sure if reporting the fraud to the police will get you any of your money back (Actually I'm quite sure it wont).

Paypal only covers (insures) things in certain categories. Unfortunately cars are not one of them, there is no coverage for vehicles at all, no matter the circumstances.

Ebay/Paypal (same company anyway) won't get involved, they will provide details to the police if requested though. Is there an actual legal obligation to advertise a car as a non repairable write off in the state it was sold in? The hard bit is that you are not in the same state by the sounds of it, so fair trading/small claims will have limited jurisdiction too.

You can leave feedback but may not be able to do much more. You know you can use ebays system to request another users details if you have dealt with them ie name address and phone number as well as email address. Presumably you paid by bank deposit? The bank may be able to help. If you paypal paid using a credit card your bank may be able to chargeback if fraud is involved.

At the end of the day it is buyer beware, if you are buying something sight unseen from interstate, the price you pay (or should pay) would be lower than from a private sale or dealer so that is some consolation. What I don't really get is why a car is deemed non repairable rather than repairable - lets face it anything is repairable if you invest the money and the time so who are they to tell you it can't be done. Normally you get a check done to ensure it is safely fixed and all is good, so what's so bad (should have been obvious) with this car?

Feel free to PM me if you need some advice on this sort of thing, I've fought scum like this before and won.

Solly · 17th July 2011, 10:35 AM

There are two forms of write-off. Statuatory and non-repairable, as this is a non-repairable, it can never be re-registered.

P.M me the VIN and Engine number and I will see if I can assist in getting some info on the car and it's ownership/history. No promises, I'll see what I can do....

**pfillery** · 17th July 2011, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by Solly

There are two forms of write-off. Statuatory and non-repairable, as this is a non-repairable, it can never be re-registered.

So what's the difference? I mean what are the criteria by which a car is deemed statutory or non repairable? You get water damaged cars that can be both so out of curiousity what would be a reason that an average looking car is never able to be registered?

**circlework** · 17th July 2011, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by Solly

There are two forms of write-off. Statuatory and non-repairable, as this is a non-repairable, it can never be re-registered.
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Shouldn't that be 'statuatory' and 'repairable'?

Also, the vehicle WOVR sticker should have still been on the vehicle when the buyer recieved it, as it's illegal to remove it. If it wasn't there, it smells a tad fraudulent to me.

Cheers.

**digger** · 17th July 2011, 09:28 PM

maybe a good time to look for any of those hail damaged ones that were for sale before the floods.... any same model left about the joint may be your solution.

**karlsgirl** · 21st July 2011, 05:31 PM

hi thanks to every ones help we found out it ended up in the drink. still starts runs and looks fine thats why we didnt know why is was a write off but we are going to get it looked at to see if anything can come of it thanks to all will let you know how it goes

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