Topic: Seller's famous last words!

[Magpie]

"I made a mistake, my father in law wants it." This after answering my wanted ad, accepting my offer, taking my deposit, giving me a receipt and shaking hands on it.  Should have called dear old dad in law FIRST! I let it go and still pissed about it.
Cliff.

[05c50]

These bikes are "RARE" and worth a lot more then I'm asking for it.

.........Paul

[betterthanurs916]

"You'll just need to pop a new gasket under the cover to fix that oil leak right up, I just never got around to it"


(In reference to replacing the crankshaft oil seal behind the stator...which requires splitting the case of course)

[fmctm1sw]

I also love the pusher line:

I've gotten a lot of other calls on this and there's three more guys who wanna buy it if you don't take it!

That is a good one.  Here's another:  I'll do those repairs myself if it doesn't sell and then relist it for *insert unreasonable dollar amount here.*

[Damfino]

'One owner bike'

As in "Yeah, the guy I bought it from, bought it from the original owner. Neither one of us bothered to title it so it's still in the original owners name!"

[MattFreeman]

Paid for and loaded in the trailer.

"By the way the odometer isn't correct it probably has more than twice that." Showed 32k.

[steam-powered man]

seller starts the 550 up and immediately pins the throttle, then holds it at 3k so i can hear the "music".  i adjust the idle back to 1200 and hear this goddawful knocking/banging from the bottom end.  i passed on that one.    

[zzpete]

Just wiggle those wires, it will start!!! 

[sangyo soichiro]

Those 35 year old tires still have plenty of tread on them.
  

Yep.  Almost every bike I bought the seller was amazed with the tread on the old tires ("Tires are still good."), even though they were dry-rotted.   

This bike is still factory all original except for- the bars, pipes, seat, carbs, and paint color. How many times have we heard this story?

Heard that one too.  The seller said it was all original (CB 750), but I noticed one Meier side cover (crappy brand btw), 16" rear wheel, 4-1 pipes, chromed everything, and a chopped front fender.  I passed on that one.

[yozzie]

"Don't know anything about mechanics.  Never opened a thing on it. Running good when I parked it."

Then I find carbs assembled incorrectly, broken float post, coil wires disconnected.  Weird!

[domer]

"the p.o. told me that (insert bull#$%* here)"

[parrotbasher]

'It's a genuine 2400cc bike'....(oil capacity label on my GS).

[Don R]

Sure, I got the title right here in the house. (Bike sold 3 times in 12 years, nobody sent it in)

[72 yellow]

"Just bought a new bike, can't ride both".  Of course the one he is selling has not been ridden in quite a while (cause it won't run with one of the main jets and it's holder laying in the bottom of the bowl among other problems).

[mrbreeze]

This motor is pumped to the gills....all kind of yosh,RC parts. I'm not sure where the receipts are. It put out 92 ponies to the rear wheel.I misplaced the dyno slip.

[Don R]

It has a 936 kit.

[westondc]

"It had a full tuneup before we parked it (outside 2 years ago)"
"It'll run fine if you just add some new gas (to the 2 year old brown gas in a rusty tank)"
"Heck, my brother rode it all the way to sturgis (15 years ago)"

[bluezboy]

 " I never had a problem with it blowing fuses, shutting down on me all of a sudden, the front brake sticking, the idle set too high" among other things. Like the man said, never, ever believe the previous owner, unless he's a Honda master mechanic!

[dave500]

do you want fries with that?

[Stev-o]

I guarantee it's not stolen!! [no title bike]

And I believed her [stupid? we'll see...]


Ps. Great thread idea digger!

[SOHC Digger]

One of my favorites:

"I'm selling it for a buddy of mine..."

And he can't sell it because?

[tango911]

"i have 1k in this here lower thing"   (meaning trans)
his name was bob and lived in mars hill sub.   total trash area

[Tex]

Yeah sure... ummmmm.. the compression...... errr ahhh yeah its good

[Grnrngr]

One of my favorites:

"I'm selling it for a buddy of mine..."

And he can't sell it because?

My black Virago.."I got it from a friend who's room mate moved out owing him some rent money...don't know where the papers went..."

My red Virago.."Got it from a former high school girls soccer coach who had to sell it to pay the lawyer...seems he ran off with one of the girls on the team..."

[Hondawggie]

"No I don't have the title, but it's not stolen.  You won't have any trouble getting it registered."

'Just in case the DMV needs it, do you have a bill of sale from the person you bought it from?'

"No but the DMV never asks for that.  You wont have any problem getting it registered."

"Did you register it?"

'No but its running and its a good deal.'

I bought it. 

California DMV said 'the owner of record is not the person you bought it from, go back to that person and get the bill of sale they got from the registered owner.'

'Okay DMV, who's the registered owner?'
'Uh we can't disclose that, its a privacy issue.'

I called the guy I got it from.   Disconnected phone.
DMV said 'Sorry we can't give you the title unless the owner, who is out of state by the way, releases his interest in writing.'

Never again.

Only way I got the title was on a technicality, the value of the bike was below some DMV threshold.  Took me 2 weeks on the phone with the Sacramento DMV headquarters.

Never again.