is it brand new? puts my peugeot 206 to shame

BVR... coincidence or foul play with the DMV??

Yesterday morning at 8.00 I drove into the car market parking, accompanied by my cousin who is a sales kind of guy, and better at negotiating than me. The entry to this parking lot goes via a fenced off road. At either side behind the fence buyers from an origin best described as north african and eastern European went crazy for the former zozmobile, slamming their hands through the fence to knock on my window and enquire about engine, age and mileage.
"Mesjeu! mesjeu! quel moteur? Mesjeu!!" "Eeee! Eee! Here!! here!" "I buy , I buy!!"

After answering some questions, I paid the entrance fee and drove to a free parking space, while the moroccans and eastern europeans were running in front of, left, right and behind my car in an impressive imitation of presidential bodyguards. Of the badly dressed, fat and shifty kind.
"Mesjeu!! Mesjeu!! Par ici mesjeu!!" As I parked my car, several were quarreling over the privilege of the right to be the first to be seated on the throne of the zozmobile to make a testdrive across the parking lot.

We decided to grant a guy who looked like a kind of north african pimp who hit on bad times the first ride, and of we went for some grand circles to show off the perfect state of the engine. * The fact that the rear bumper was dented and had two cracks, the airco was nonfunctional, the shocks had received a remark at the car inspection, as well as the brake disks needing replacement sometime soon, was easily waved away by dazzling rebuttal, "Mesjeu, the car is for export to your desert regions where the height of transport is a cripple camel with an STD it got from your father. Surely you cannot be serious that these minor things are reason for concern, much less price reduction!"  Eastern europeans were equally adressed by mentioning the scientifically proven fact that their population was usually too inebriated on wodka to see the difference between their fat wives, a truck and a perfectly good car anyway.

* We later learned that the corner where the first driver (who is apparantly an expert) parks the car (to seemingly discuss a bit on finer points), indicates to the rest of the buyer-gang wether the car is worth a dime or if they should leave the worthless piece of crap alone. Indeed, some cars were never even asked about, while the 'good' ones receive visits all the time. These guys are organised and have a code for everything.

What came next was a seminar in how to try to undermine a seller

Haha zoz that was a pretty good read! I just scrapped my AX and eBay'd my golf ALOT easier

> [TI] ZoZferatu [Pw9] wrote:

> Yesterday morning at 8.00 I drove into the car market parking, accompanied by my cousin who is a sales kind of guy, and better at negotiating than me.

Aren't you a lawyer?

And yes, dealing with the eastern european car dealers is amusing. We once sold a car to some (I think) Armenian mobsters, it was most hilarious.

> East wrote:

> how much moolah are we talking about here? and weren't you worried the money would be teh fakeh?

There was a cabin where you could have the money checked and you can obtain a model contract. And we're talking inbetween 4-5 k euros

Ben: Sales people are trained to argue that the big crack in the bumper is actually an improvement to the aerodynamics of the car. Lawyers are trained to argue that that big crack was already there, and if it wasn't, it can not be held against any current or future value of the Product, nor can it form substantial ground for any form of rebate, material or immaterial, to be provided in the framework of the purchasing agreement, notwithstanding the right of either party to, upon written notice of at least 5 working days and in the form and to the contact details mentioned in Appendix 4, reserve the possibility to enter into further negotiations before a neutral arbiter who shall be designated according to the procedure referred to in Clause 14.2.

Talking about mobsters, one of the guys there had a chunk of a forefinger cut off. His friend had half an ear missing. If I can believe my mobster movies, those are small warnings for being greedy or too curious. Weird fellas, all of them. And smelly.

Yell; what movie are you referring to? I googled it and came up with a wiki entry:
Takeru Kobayashi (小林尊 Kobayashi Takeru?) (born March 15, 1978) is a Japanese competitive eater. He held the world record for hot dog eating for nearly six years, and holds several other eating records, including four Guinness Records for hot dogs, meatballs, hamburgers, and pasta.

what movie???   only "The Usual Suspects"!!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/