Ginger Phil wrote:Well done!

Buff, have you read my topic in Chit Chat about my old X8? You had a lucky escape by the sounds of things.

I did breathe a sigh of relief at that one. I probably wouldn't have done check as you are a fellow muppet. I did get my fingers burnt recently. I bought the Satelis from a private seller in Wakefield and paid for the HPI check £19.99. It came up OK, just that seller had changed reg. He had a private reg which he had already moved to his car.
The flip side of this is that the following week I bought the Vespa LX 50 (now sold) for my son from a work colleague who I see on a daily basis. Unfortunately, I took him at his word that finance was clear. After nearly a month the new log book didn't arrive. Chummy from work assured me he had sent it off. I started to smell a rat, so I did a HPI check at this point.
Suprise, suprise - finance still outstanding. After a few strong words with him he got it sorted. Good job for him, because he would of felt the wrath of Mrs Buff and believe me he wouldn't want that.
After a week a did another HPI check and it was now clear.
The whole saga left a bad taste about the scoot and along we us changing our minds about son riding we sold scoot.
Buff