I don't usually feel blue after reading AutoTrader online (and who here doesn't check it every other day!) but I saw this and it kind of knocked the wind out of my sails...

"... i am reluctantly selling subaru impreza as i am terminally ill with cancer and no longer able to drive it..."

Grim.

Anybody know who this is? Thinking about you and your family... whoever you are.

DBB.

 

Yes, a shame that is, still don't think he'll get anywhere near £11k for it though.

 

sympathy vote?????

I use some cracking excuses to sell cars

 

Call me an old cynic but...........................

 

A good way of not getting the price haggled down. Who would haggle with a dead man walking?

 

I would.

 

Think that car is also on Pistonheads

 

No chance of getting £11,000.


I cant get £9995 for MY03WRX running 330bhp..........

Only interest so far is bloody companies

 

The poor bugger

 

 

he does have a very well kept lawn though!

 

IMO, some threads you can have a laugh on and be a bit cynical, this isn't one of them.

 

I was gonna say lets hope they're wrong, but I hope they're right and hes lying... sick to do it but I wouldnt wish it on anyone

 

i cant beleive some of these comments, god forbid this should ever happen to you or someone you love, cancer is one of the most painfull deaths you could imagine, and the relitives suffer terribly.
why even think this poor guy is anything other than genuine.
i think mods should look hard at this thread.

for people to think negitive of this is a reflection of there own morals and standards.

 

If I had that I wouldn't be advertising it just to sell a car

 

STFU

There are people out there that would without thought use this kind of reason to sell a car for the higher price !!

My mum died the way you described and she didnt tell anyone she had cancer, nor did my Nan. I think most people with cancer wouldnt use it as a possible sales point as this person has.

If the person is geniune, I seriously give him my best wishes and my thoughts are with him!! Sadly the world we now live means we cant assume he's telling the truth.

 

Agreed it has nothing to do with the car sale what so ever. "Genuine personal reasons" would have sufficed and I have to agree that someone genuinely ill like this would not want to advertise the fact for a sympathy vote, quick sale or for any other frankly mundane reason. I am very cynical of this.

I do hope I am right as it is very upsetting and a tad macabre if not.

 

Its strange how we want it to be real cause we dont want someone to lie about it, but overal I think we'd rather it was a lie

 

I agree with the above.

I dont think someone would actually advertise the fact that they had cancer on a car advert

 

Well i apologise for my comment if it has upset anyone. its not what i intended to do.
I know a couple of people who have had cancer and had to deal with it and after having a good 2 hour chat to them about there experience of it i cant see that you would advertise the fact.

 

ok, to add my two pennyworth (again)
i dont think the guy was "using" an illness to sell his car?
i think he was explaining that he had a very valid reason for sale.
and if he feels fit to desclose something as personal as that, than so be it.
cancer does not have to be kept "hidden", in fact i think hes dealing with it in the best manner for him.
it is easy to judge/form an oppinion as to "is this guy genuine?", but we must take him at his word, or do we doubt everything.
it was not a "one lady owner" or "owner leaving country"
he was letting a potental buyer know that the only (presumed) reason for sale is a very tragic one, and the fact that he deceided to desclose this in the advert, is his decision, and the way he is confronting it.
to a lot of people, disclosure is a good way of lessoning the burdon.

but what would i know?