The original price of your car
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Simon said:
Crickey, £800 in 2001? Was it in bad condition or did you get a very good deal?
Soldato
Simon said:
Yeah that is an awesome bargain.
Nope.Haircut said:Next question.
Are you going to tell us what it is?
I'd have said I guard my privacy, rather than "secretive", but maybe it's the same thing.merlin said:Dont be silly.
Sequoia is super secretive about what he does, what he owns, who he knows, where he lives and what he drives.
But he's does like teasing people over the answers.
Teasing? No, not really. I like to take part in threads, and I try to phrase things in a way that make a point without saying what I'm not prepared to say. In forums in the past, I have answered that kind of question, and the result is that I'm either accused of showing off, or of lying. When that happens, it becomes a choice of either proving it, or putting up with the accusation, and I'm point-blank not prepared to disclose what I would have to do to do the former. Nor, for that matter, do I accept the implicit demand to do so.
So, there are some places I won't go and some things I won't clarify.
When this issue comes up, I try to sidetrack it with humour, like my response to Paras, but that often doesn't work. In which case, I either have to answer, which leads to the above problem, or I have to go "super-secretive", which looks like teasing. The only other alternative is not not bother posting at all, in which case, why bother having an account and coming here?
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2003 Clio 1.6 16v
Cost new: £9875
Bought it exactly 3yrs later for £6k
Cost new: £9875
Bought it exactly 3yrs later for £6k
Sequoia said:
The internet is for showing off. Did you not get a copy of the rules or something?
Anyway, I think you do tease, you know full well we'd all love to know what you own and see some pics and talk to you about it. Quite how that would infringe on your precious privacy I don't know.
Soldato
Saxo VTR paid £8888 for it brand new in August 01
Soldato
2003 (53) BMW Z4 3.0i Z4
Cost New = £30850
but my car has literally every extra out of the book (including cup holders) so the first guy to buy it must have paid over 40K
Bought for = £19250.
HEADRAT
Cost New = £30850
but my car has literally every extra out of the book (including cup holders) so the first guy to buy it must have paid over 40K
Bought for = £19250.
HEADRAT
See, this is the kind of thing I was talking about. I don't give a fig if you do know how it would impinge on my "precious" privacy, and I'm not going to explain because that would go into areas I don't want to go. Nor do I feel that I have to justify to you why my privacy is precious, or why you don't have the right to demand answers from me.merlin said:The internet is for showing off. Did you not get a copy of the rules or something?
Anyway, I think you do tease, you know full well we'd all love to know what you own and see some pics and talk to you about it. Quite how that would infringe on your precious privacy I don't know.
I tried to put it in a friendly fashion, and I explained the problem, but it seems that isn't going to work. So let me put it another way. If I wanted to say what I drive, I would have. It isn't teasing, and I don't know that you'd all "love to know". Frankly, I don't see why it makes any difference at all what I drive. Paras asked a polite, careful question, and I gave him a polite, careful answer. I have no problem with that. But to keep harping on about it when I've said, pretty clearly, that I'm not going to say and I've even said why I'm not going to say, is pure nosiness.
Let me put it bluntly. I am NOT going to say what I drive, period. No amount of wheedling or accusations of teasing is going to make the slightest difference. If you can't accept that, feel free to ignore me. Please.
