Hi All,
Recently, my dad had found a second hand merc off of facebook and we went to see the vehicle which looked fine and next morning my dad had paid a deposit of £500.
Although a bit late, I decided to get the vehicle history and it revealed that the car had its mileage adjusted twice (-11k and -42k).
I called up the seller asking him to return the deposit along with the reason to which he sounded bewildered but explained that the reason is that the the car had its engine replaced and therefore the mileage was adjusted to match the replaced engine's mileage.
By now I was convinced that the guy is dodgy and the mileage had been adjusted twice where as the engine had been changed only once. regardless of his explanations, I was adamant that the money needed to be returned to which he refused.
We called the bank and explained the situation and in turn the bank had frozen his account, so the guy might have been startled , he called up again promising that he'll return 250 immediately once his account is unlock and the remainder once the car is sold.
However now its been months, haven't heard from the guy nor seen a penny of that £500, clearly he had managed to get his account unlocked. Later on the bank contacted us saying that they can't help with the matter.
Contacted the police as well to get nothing and everything seems a hit a dead end.
I tried looking for the man's address thinking that I could make a case at the small claims court but again he seems untraceable (although we have his bank details).
Any suggestions on what could be done about this?