A man sent a potential car buyer on an 85-mile wild goose chase to a hospital and told him to 'get himself checked' after a 'sick' low offer.
Mechanic Janis Drikis, 37, advertised his Honda Civic for just £550 in the hope he'd get a quick sale - but one potential buyer wanted it even cheaper.
Charlie Murry, 51, offered him just £250 in cash for the car - and instead of ignoring the offer or sending an angry reply, Janis decided to play along.
He gave Charlie the address of a hospital, a two-hour drive away, and when he couldn't find the fictional house, Janis told him to go in and 'make an appointment and check yourself' for making such a low offer.
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Janis, from Newry, Northern Ireland, said: "I put the car for sale on Marketplace for £550. I know there are people who are going to ask. I had lots of messages offering £450 and £400 and I don't mind if someone asks like that. I would probably ask.
"But I got that message for £250 in cash and I thought 'Jesus Christ'. It made me sick and I was just about to send some nice words but I sent him a thumbs up instead.
"He text back asking for my address so I gave him the address to a hospital. I thought I had to give him a good lesson.
"He asked if I'd be there all day and I put a thumbs up. The next day he text saying he couldn't find my house so I directed him to the hospital.
"He text me saying he was at the hospital five minutes later. I told him to go make an appointment and check yourself for making that stupid offer. It was a good way to teach him a good lesson. He called me a rotten b*****d.
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"He came from Ballymoney, which is hours away. I feel sorry about that but it's a good lesson for him."
Charlie says he'd been helping out at his son's scrap business when he'd offered to take the journey from Ballymoney to Newry to pick the car up.
Charlie said: "It was an MOT failure and had a blown turbo on it as well. It said that in the description. He had it up for £500 and it was only for scrap.
"It could have been used again if you wanted to spend £1,000 on it. If it's good enough to be used, why didn't he take it back to MOT, repair it and drive it.
"My offer was fair, it was only good for scrap. All he had to do was send to my reply 'that's not enough. No thank you'.
"I was pretty annoyed when I got there because it was an absolute low-down act to do on anybody. I'd understand if it was a £2,000 car and I offered dirty money for it but it was scrap."
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