My soon-to-be ex husband's Porsche for cheap sale (£2,000)

[snopes]

Last week, I caught my husband having it off with our babysitter in our Porsche (actually, MY Porsche as I bloody paid for it) so I'm selling his beloved car for £200! See how the prick likes that!

http://birmingham.gumtree.com/birmin.../44009733.html

[Eddylizard]

I'm not sure, maybe it's a ridiculous story to sell a Porsche - they don't tend to have good resale values.

A few years back I had the opportunity to pick up a ten year old 911 for £3,500 from a dealer. The insurance, the servicing costs and the suspicion that there might be something quite wrong with it (although it did get through a ten mile test drive) put me off.

[Zorro]

Talk about focusing on the wrong thing...the part about rubbing pepper sauce on the condom wrapper...how is that going to mees things up...unless she means for them to get it on their fingers while they fumble with the wrapping?

[Moku]

I assumed she meant the pepper sauce would go from wrapper to fingers, from fingers to outside of condom, from outside of condom to ...... etc, etc

[Ren]

Originally Posted by snopes

Last week, I caught my husband having it off with our babysitter in our Porsche (actually, MY Porsche as I bloody paid for it) so I'm selling his beloved car for £200! See how the prick likes that!

If she paid for it, then isn't she only hurting herself?
Revenge always just makes the revenge-taker look childish. Isn't it much better revenge to shrug your shoulders, move on and forget the person? If they deserve your 'revenge', then they don't deserve you putting so much energy into them.

[snopes]

A wife who caught her hubby romping with the babysitter in his Porsche is taking revenge by selling the car online at a knockdown price.

She has also put the love rat's prized wine collection in the boot.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...s-Porsche.html

[Old goat]

Wouldn't there be a problem with registration? If the vehicle is in his name, it would be difficult to transfer title. At least, until after the divorce settlement.
Or are the laws a little different on that score across the pond?

[Richard W]

It's £2000 not £200 as stated at the beginning, then...?

That's not a real story, it's made up for publicity, obviously. "Including free bonus wine collection"? Gosh, really? And it seems to have worked, if The Sun was taken in. They also manage to avoid giving any details at all about the car, except the picture.

[Enchanting_eyes]

Did whomever post the Ad again?

When I click on the link in the OP, the date posted is the 25th of August, snopes posted this on the 23rd of August.


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[llewtrah]

Originally Posted by Old goat

Wouldn't there be a problem with registration? If the vehicle is in his name, it would be difficult to transfer title. At least, until after the divorce settlement.
Or are the laws a little different on that score across the pond?

In the Op it said "(actually, MY Porsche as I bloody paid for it)" which sounds like it is registered in her name, not his.

Anyway, after also seeing this about car sales on Gumtree, I'd be wary or car ads that look too good to be true:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8222087.stm

The victim, 42, went to Barking to buy a VW Golf advertised on the [Gumtree] site. But he was ambushed, then beaten, kicked and stabbed in the heart, lungs and abdomen, before the £5,000 he was to pay with was stolen. The car's true owner was unaware it had been offered for sale.

[llewtrah]

Originally Posted by Ren

If she paid for it, then isn't she only hurting herself?

Not really. If she bought it for him to drive, but isn't interested in driving it herself*, then she's not going to miss it. And maybe she earns enough that she doesn't care.

*same as I'm not interested in such cars, because they are simply not practical - no boot-space, bugger all back seat space for passengers etc.