need polite way to tell buyer to buzz off **VENT ALERT***

Always have a 1911 on your side. People tend not to hang around very long. Just start closing the doors not saying a word and go in the house. after about 10 minutes they leave and don't come back.

 

Sounds like he's a guy that just doesn't get the message. Next time your phone rings and it's him, repeat after me!

"Your on your own young Luke"

 

Just another reason I don't let ANYONE peep in my garage except good friends.

Tell him nothing else is for sale if he calls back. Also, write down any contact information you have for the guy, name, number, email, type of vehicle he was in, etc. Just incase something comes up missing.

 

if i want to rid myself of someone, i'll, usually introduce them to my 2 german shepard's, who, have been banging on the house windows to get out. having big noisy dogs around is a very good security system. i 94 runs directly next to my house, and, in 30 years i haven't had a thing taken. my other dogless neighbors not so lucky. steve pastorino

 

^^^ There's your answer right there.

 

Tell him you are tired of his sh*t, bring the stuff back and I will give refund.

 

Nobody ever gets in my shop the only thing that can be seen is the AK in the second floor window. no windows one door on the first floor.

 

He would have been walked out of the garage when he started rummaging like he's an american picker.. no deal. He's an asshole.

 

No.

Just tell him no.

Two letters. N O

Polite and politically correct. No

By you offering explanations and reasons you are inviting negotiations.

Just say no.

 

exactly!!

 

Kingpins, hairpins, heims, and disc brakes? Open up a Speedway catalog the next time he calls, double the prices and make a profit.

F*ck that guy.

 

The TITLE doesnt exist. Typo.
Its a VIN number FOR a title, VIN number with my name stamped on it and I'm going to put it on my car. Like I said, I slipped and told him I had one.
Neither THEN nor NOW do I plan on getting rid of it, let alone selling it. The guy that sold it to me did so in good faith, friend to friend. I called & asked him about it and he didnt think it was a good idea. Legality shit. It's not hard to get a VIN or title in FL.

The roadster body I sold was a completely bare shell, and selling that VIN, still in an envelope, not attached to the car, call BULLSHIT if you want, until you're the guy standing there worrying about getting sued or having the 5.0 stop by, ease back. If you think a situation like that would be cool to hand over a blank VIN number to a total stranger, I want your fucking stress level.

FWIW: The buyer started offering less than HALF of what I was asking, which was total insult. If I didnt need that stuff gone so badly, I would have tossed it in the garage.

(after dealing with many misguided/cheap/greedy people in my area, and if this shit wasn't so expensive, I would have taken a torch and chainsaw to it, set it on fire, and watched it burn before I sold it at a 50% loss.)

 

slepe67....I also had a run in with a guy like that...we'll call him "Joe". He would come over unannounced, or call that he was in the area...and start asking me if I had this or that...all the while looking around my garage. I had done business with him before so it took a few times before I let him in the garage but I always had a weird feeling about him like others have said they felt...later I introduced him to a friend of mine...I think my buddy might have had the part he needed or something and "Joe" started doing the same thing to him. Over time my buddy started noticing shit was missing...and since my buddy had so much stuff he couldnt remember if he left something here or there or? Turns out "Joe" was putting together exactly the same car as my buddy...one day when my buddys truck was at a neighbors, he looks out a window of his house he notices Joe taking parts off his car! Kind of like his own personal Pick n Pull...needless to say "Joe" got the shit beat out of him.

Moral of the story....if this guy weirds you out...trust your instincts. Take everything he asked about and move it somewhere else. Cameras and whatever dont work. "Joe" was caught redhanded and nothing happened to him legally. Lock your stuff up and move it for a while. Dont know why "Joe" never stole from me...my buddys stuff was alot more accessible than mine...plus I am a lot bigger than my buddy...lol. Good luck!

 

haha, shit

what initially started as a vent/rant/ how-do-HAMBers deal with scumbags thread, no has me slithgtly paranoid...haha, but I think I can take care of myself and my family QUITE well. I actually had a guy in my backward a few weeks back, both german shepards took off after him. My teenage son was home sick, and heard the dogs going bezerk (they dont bark unless they need to) and he actually saw them pulling at his pantlegs as he was trying to scale over our privacy fence. Cops came, he told us the area is very secure and not to worry. Yesterday, I get a letter from the power company telling us we need to set up a time to allow them to enter our yard so they can install a new meter. And that my dogs "scared" the pants off the guy who stopped by to install it, unannounced. My meter isn't in the fenced portion of my yard, sooo....


anyways, thanks for the good feedback and advice for next time I sell something/have strange folks over. KEEP THE GARAGE DOOR SHUT! Or, do it at a public place....

You guys see the YouTube video in here a while back about how people have been breaking into garages? Pretty effed up.

 

"Next time I sell something/have strange folks over. KEEP THE GARAGE DOOR SHUT! Or, do it at a public place....

Exactly...my buddy that got ripped stopped having guys come over that were wanting to buy something from Craigslist or whatever...he would put the stuff in his truck and meet them at a nearby market....too bad...but its reality.