Hello everyone so at the end of January I was looking to get a car for myself since I don’t have one and it helps having a car where I live because public transport in a small town is almost non existent.
So a colleague of mine at work offered to sell me his Jeep 2012 Limited Edition 70th Anniversary for €8k with 230k KM on it because he was offered a employer car from the place I work at.
He would let me pay €2.5k first month and then pay in installments, he said on the 1st March I would have the Jeep in my hands, 1st March comes and goes and still no car and he said he was still waiting for the company car to be delivered to him.
After dwelling on buying a car for €8k I decided to not go through with it and sent him a message on Whatsapp because Im a anxious person who cannot give bad news face to face.
Told him that I really appreciated his offer and to let me pay in installments but decided to not buy because it would be a huge financial responsability when I don’t have much money in savings. Only a couple thousand euros.
I was hit with " I had to refuse to sell to my brother because of you, if you can’t assume responsabilities don’t assume them. "
I sent a reply saying that he was right and that I was really sorry.
With his final message being " Apologies are not said, they are avoided "
Am I the asshole for doing this?
NTA. Idk why dude got personally offended. He was going to sell it anyway cuz he didn’t need it. He can simply sell it to someone else.
NTA.
You didn’t sign a contract and he didn’t deliver the car on the date you agreed upon.
“Apologies are not said, they are avoided” is a phrase reserved the most entitled, arrogant and delusional people you’ll ever have the displeasure of associating with.
The only thing you shouldn’t have done is say he was right and apologised again, he can do one.
NTA
He missed the deadline for delivery, so it already wasn’t a done deal
NTA. He can’t miss the delivery date and expect you to still take the car anyway, and since he couldn’t have handed the car over yet anyway, he still can sell to his brother.
(The brother is a lie, by the way. If he wanted to sell to his brother, he would have let you down and let the brother have it. You’re either overpaying so much the man would screw over his brother, or it’s complete fabrication.)
He left you with time to reconsider, you used that time and reconsidered. He is SOL. He also has no need to sell right now if he’s getting a company car. Maybe he needs his out of the drive way, but still… he can sell it tomorrow too.
Btw he’s overreacting and honestly being weird. He’s acting like you’ve been stringing him along for months or something. He’s definitely not someone I would want to owe money to via payment plan either with how irrational he’s acting. And I wouldn’t be shocked if there was something truly wrong with the car and he was trying to unload it on you.
NTA, He didn’t follow through with his side of this so-called bargain.
Who cares. He’s not out-of-pocket because you changed your mind.
Deal isn’t done until the transaction is finalised.
You avoided buying a money pit.
NTA. If you can’t afford it then you can’t afford it. Sounds like he is overcharging you and that’s why he is upset. A jeep with 2O0k miles is not a good deal. Also, Jeep was created in 1941 so if it’s a 70th anniversary edition it would be a 2011. 8k is too high.
NTA , 8k for a 14 year old shit box jeep is a terrible idea
NTA. His fault for not delivering on time. You should tell him that, and then never be friends with this dumbass again.
NTA. You are not obligated to buy his car for any reason. As for moral obligations: did he apologize for not delivering you car on March 1? He was the first to break the deal
Thank you for the award
NTA. He’s also over charging you.
>Jeep 2012 Limited Edition 70th Anniversary for €8k with 230k KM
This might be the worst deal ever offered to anyone in the history of automobiles.