empip said:
Know a tichy bit about blagging motors ... Bro in law made a mint at the car trade, then virtually off the back of a jibe in the local, did the same with property, deffo had the 'midas' touch ... 'never has one man done so little for so much gain', as my old dad would chortle into bro in law's best scotch.
I heard a great story once about a punter who made a mint off of Rover dealers. I used to have a car manufacturer as a customer, and they heard about this at some industry bash.
Remember the campaign some years ago where Rover were saying if you bought a new car and didn't like it for any reason within 2 weeks you could return it for a full refund? They had a TV ad with someone taking his new Rover 82x (IIRC) home, and it was too long for the garage.
Apparently this guy would fetch up at a Rover dealer driving some old clunker, and negotiate the purchase of a top-of-the-range Rover with his old jalopy in PX. He hassled on the basis of price-to-change, and he invariably got more for the PX than it was worth.
Two weeks later he'd turn up saying he'd changed his mind, and wanted to cancel the deal. So they would give him his money back, and he'd say "what about my old car?". Which, of course, they'd traded long ago.
"You gave me £1K for that" (or whatever), so that's what they had to shell out to him.
And he would go and buy a wreck at auction for a few hundred, and trundle off to another dealer.
By the time word got round he'd hit several dozen dealers, taking about a grand off each one....