Selling 164 horror story

[Scott McCaulley <alfa@domain.elided>]

Greetings Alfisti.

Here is a lesson about only selling an Alfa to an Alfa lover:

I just placed and sold my 1991 164L on  Ebay.  Buyer was nice and 
very prompt, flew down from Oakland to my home in LA to pick up car.

When the fellow and his daughter arrive( car was for her) I drive 
them around and show them how everything works.  Car runs good and 
everything is working.  We stop and leave engine running and look at 
all options and the like.

Said fellow signs paperwork back at my home and proceeds to drive back to L.A.

Nice fine transaction...........Nope..

I get a call today (this happed last night) and the buyer says "I 
want you to know how disappointed I am".   He goes on to explain 
further " After about 30 minutes the alternator light comes on,  and 
then about an hour before I get home, the car starts to sputter and 
then dies!".   This was 5 hours of driving later.  Next he tells me 
he is considering "stopping payment on the check" because I might 
have sold him a car without the alternator belt on it.

Ok, maybe I am being a jerk, but wouldn't most people with a 
reasonable amount of intelligence, have stopped to maybe see why the 
light came on?

I can only imagine the damage done after driving 400miles with  the belt gone.

He says the lights "slowly dimmed over the next 5 hours".

He's disappointed with ME?  This guys does not deserve to drive my 
beloved 164 and I wish I had sold it to one of the other 9 bidders, 
one of which may have some sense.

Anyway, beware of non alfa owners!
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  Scott Mccaulley
    Supervisor
Facility/Operations
   DIGITAL DOMAIN
email- alfa@domain.elided
Wk# 310-314-2992
pg  310-587-4688
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