...or when they have COMPLETELY different definitions of the following words (when you're calling about the car vs. when you see it in person) from the rest of the universe:

-Well maintained (4 oil changes year don't count...)
-No rust (a little rust isn't the same as NO rust)
-No accidents (fender benders ARE accidents!)
-Never winter driven (why does it have snow tires on it???)
-100% original (seat covers covering cracks, pimped out stereo, 5 star chrome rims, etc..)
-A couple of others have looked at the car already & are interested (when pressed for details, the ad has only been in the paper for 2 days and they can't "remember" who else has been to see it even though the crowd just left before I got there!)
-I'm not a dealer.. this is my car (where did you get the dealer plates on the car? Why are they attached with rusty screws that have been there for 2 years??)
-40,000km (on the engine. That's what the wrecking yard told me when I bought the "like new" engine. 340,000km on the rest of the car. Engine looks & runs worse than similar cars with 340,000km)

I've seen it all.

My favourite was the guy who was trying to sell me an '83 Thunderbird years ago. He said "no rust". There was 2" body moulding all the way around these cars. Supplemented by 2" of plastic tape he had attached right below the moulding. And the tape was all bumpy because of the rust below it.

Like I wasn't going to notice a 4-5" body side moulding!

Neal

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'86 300SDL 356,000km (220k mi) SOLD
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'90 300SL 140,000km (87k mi) SOLD
'01 S430 260,000km (161k mi) SOLD
'03 SL500 167,000km (104k mi) SOLD
'07 S550 4MATIC 235,000km (146k mi) SOLD
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