Hire Purchase
At an old job of mine, I worked with a guy who had a *named brand* 4x4 that he absolutely loved. It was nowhere near the family friendly car he needed, but he liked driving over those little kerbs they put in supermarkets to make sure people can't spread out over two parking spaces. And who can blame him?

Anyway, he'd had this on hire purchase for a few years when he got the call from the dealership. As he'd had it for a few years, and as his agreement was coming up, would he like to buy it from them? It wasn't an amazing deal they offered him- five or six grand, and he knew that it wasn't perhaps the most appropriate car to buy for family life, but he loved it and so he said he'd think about it and call them back. He'd almost made up his mind when another branch of the same dealership called him up and told him that they had a real shortage of that model and would he consider parting with his for just short of ten grand? So he bought the car off them, sold it back to them and got a far more suitable car and a few good nights out with the change. Car dealerships are weird.
( Noit happy baby orangutan, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 9:57, Reply)