Stephen

Strung Along

I have been interested in a particular car for some time and when I was too late to buy one from this MK Engineering UK in January he contacted me again to say he was getting another similar car that had been off-road and needed a couple of things done but that it would be a "little more" than than one I was previously interested in. He said he would give me first refusal on the car. He then strung me along for months. I had to contact him every week to check on progress - he never initiated contact once in 3-4 months. He always claimed that he had no further news. Then all of a sudden (again after I chased him), the car was ready and he has it advertised for almost double what the first one was advertised for. It is a merc 500SL (G431TYX) on his website for £59.9k. He said he would sell it to me for £52k - so if you are interested in it, don't pay anything like the asking price. My advice to you however would be to steer well clear.