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    Posted: 13-Jun-2013 at 18:13
Heading home tomorrow ; I have a wedding to go to on Saturday. I plan to view a Bentley Continental GTC on sale near Newbury. It has all the required number of Bentley main dealer stamps in the service book, so could be a sound car.     I say COULD  be a sound car, because alarms bells are ringing.
Knowing quite a few Bentley dealers in the South West ( the Mother in Law has an Azure and lives in 
Calne ), I asked the dealer which actual Bentley main dealers had serviced his car. Much apparent alarm and despondency on his part, since he stammered and stuttered and confessed that his in house mechanic once actually worked for Bentley and it is he that has actually serviced the car.....oh yeah,
and clearly contrived to nick a Bentley service stamp at the same time !

Mind you, dodgy though that might be, it just cannot be as iffy as one I saw earlier this week !  My teenage daughter spotted the advert for it. It is ALL black. Black paintwork, black leather interior, black alloy wheels.......it's windows are all tinted too - what colour you may well ask ?   What do you think !
BLACK, BLACK, BLACK !  She says that I have just got to buy it since it looks just like a BIGTIME drug dealers car.   I ask the dealer to show me the logbook in order to see if the owner was obviously a drug dealer. Expecting to see the name of " Puff Daddy " or " Sweet and Low " or " The Man with the Golden 
Arm ", I was more than a little surprised to see the name of a well known highly respectable elderly
Duchess as the previous owner !
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  Quote Centrix Vigilis Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14-Jun-2013 at 10:48
Honest car dealers rank right up there with lawyers-bookies-pimps-whores and US Senators and Congressmen.

Personally, I'd seek out a whore and see what she is driving. I actually give them more credibility then the others.



Amen.
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  Quote Marlin47 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Jun-2013 at 19:16
Originally posted by Centrix Vigilis

Honest car dealers rank right up there with lawyers-bookies-pimps-whores and US Senators and Congressmen.

Personally, I'd seek out a whore and see what she is driving. I actually give them more credibility then the others.



Amen.

You are so right. It was foolish of me to expect even a seller of prestigious and expensive cars to be honest and upstanding. Having said that, do they not realise that their image is a major handicap towards being viewed as someone to do honest business with ?........and that, it can only severely limit their opportunities to make honest money rightfully earned ?
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  Quote Centrix Vigilis Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28-Jun-2013 at 18:29
''You are so right. It was foolish of me to expect even a seller of prestigious and expensive cars to be honest and upstanding. Having said that, do they not realise that their image is a major handicap towards being viewed as someone to do honest business with ?........and that, it can only severely limit their opportunities to make honest money rightfully earned ?''


lawyers-bookies-pimps-whores and US Senators and Congressmen all prognostic the same rhetoric....the difference is that they don't give a shit as long as their getting theirs.

In the end the whore is the most honest. and either worthy of your business....or not.


either that or treat them all as whores and remember haggling is acceptable.
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This car is the last one I'm gonna buy.   The transaction was so convoluted, the negotiations so nefarious and final outcome so complicated, that the time, energy, stamina and intellect put into it could have, if directed into a more laudable objective, had Israelis and Palestinians dancing in the streets together and marrying off their elderly and wizened Grandparents to one another.   It was worse than trying to cut the Gordian Knot with a sheet of wet newspaper.    My next car I'll just tell my daughters current boyfriend to go and hot wire that one there !

Admittedly, the dealer was of a coffee coloured hue and an Asiatic origin, but, hey, what the heck, didn't these chappies help provide the foundation of the British Empire for us  ? --------- er, sorry, I actually meant " WITH us " and not " for us " !

Of course, it all went swimmingly until I had handed over the cheque, but almost immediately thereafter the  deference, humility and forelock tugging went right out of the window, and, sad to relate, his attitude changed somewhat, too !    Of course , what I should have done was to have sent the Memsahib to do the job. I'm sure that she still has her solar topee and fly whisk somewhere.   A little eyelash fluttering and hip swinging from her and the bugger would have handed over the car gratis AND bunged in a full tank of petrol as well  !
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In mathematics two negatives equal a positive, so if you found someone who was both a car dealer and a serial killer, they might be honest!
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  Quote Marlin47 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05-Jul-2013 at 17:28
Originally posted by Toltec

In mathematics two negatives equal a positive, so if you found someone who was both a car dealer and a serial killer, they might be honest!

If he was a car dealer and a serial killer, his honesty, even if total, would still not prevent me from giving
him a very wide berth !
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