thanks burly

this is a thanks to burly though I woulda walked away anyway in regards to his demolition thread not being free

I rarely walk away from a car and I mean rarely, I get a call and its a burnout, that's fine I get burnouts all the time and I actually like them you get to pull about $50 worth of wire without taking out a dash, the car is 40 minutes away and we get there and the first thing the guy says is your going to have to unhook your trailer and pull this other trailer out of the way even before he says hello.???? I said wheres the car and he said behind the fence, I say hang on I gotta see whats going on, I get out of the truck and see the car is missing all of its wheels right up against a shop building. I offered my $200 minimum over the phone for a complete car and he never said anything about the wheels.

so a brief rundown,
1. the guy is rude from arrival
2. he wants me to unhook my trailer
3. hook his trailer,
4. unhook his trailer
5. hook my trailer
6. tear down a section of privacy fence
7. load a car at an off angle against a shop with no wheels between two fence posts
8. put a privacy fence back up

with all this I told him I would still pay $100 for the car because of the no wheels and he said he was giving the car away at 200 and no way would he take 100, I told him Im sorry I wasted his time and left. to do all this would have only taken us 45min to an hour. we have walked away a few times from fishy no titles or keys, on the other hand it may have had a totally different outcome had he not been rude ffrom the start, but in reality the fence was the deal breaker, other than this we had a productive day

gotta know when to hold em know when to fold em know when to walk away. There are people out there just waiting to file an insurance claim.

Good move on that one.

If He calls back tomorrow
Be sure to let him know price is now $50.00 since you have to make another trip

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Originally Posted by JohnC4X4

If He calls back tomorrow
Be sure to let him know price is now $50.00 since you have to make another trip

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He'd be paying me to drag it out of there. I would call it a drop-and-hook fee,,,


I used to haul campers out of N. Indiana and took one over to a nice car lot in central Ill.
I pulled in and the salesmen were crowding around the picture window watching me come in the lot and turn it around out of the way. This was a brand new dealer and we always would have them check the units out and sign for them. That way they could not claim damage later on. An hour later I'm still setting there as people were coming and going from the showroom. I go inside to use the phone (no cells back then) and asked my dispatcher just how long I had to give them and the rest of the story. She tells me 1 hour and tells me to fire up the truck and bring the camper back home.

As soon as I fired the diesel Chevy up and they seen the black smoke roll, 2 or 3 of them came running out the door and screaming at me wanting to know where I was going. They signed the paperwork in no time after I explained that I had already given them the allotted time and if they wanted it, they could pay twice for someone else to re-deliver.

Instead of $300 for a delivery it would have cost them $600. >:)