The battery in my car died the other day, which isn’t a huge deal – they only last a few years, after all – but it was a reminder that this thing is gonna totally break on me eventually.
Really not looking forward to that as buying and selling cars, well, it’s a huge headache.
AITA for not selling my cousin a car?
I, 35f lost my dad out of the blue.
It was a complete shock.
He had a vehicle he loved, and my mom decided it was to go to me.
And in the midst of that grief came, as they so often do, some logistical hurdles.
However, I had an old vehicle with 300k miles but otherwise in good condition that I needed to sell before I could take his.
My mom agreed to hang on to it for 2 months so I could try to sell my car.
I listed it for sale and was contacted by my cousins adult kid who needed a car.
I offered them a discount since they were family, but they said they didn’t have the money right then and asked if I could give at least a week for them to get the money together.
I said okay no problem.
So far so good.
But the money wasn’t coming.
Over a week comes and goes.
They contact me again saying that they had no way of getting the money by the time I needed to sell it and to go ahead and relist it and if I sold it great, but in the meantime they would try to come up with the money and let me know.
I ended up selling the car.
Seems very reasonable and responsible of the kid.
But the parents don’t seem to agree.
So my cousin messaged me after and asked why I sold it when I promised it to their kid.
I responded that I never promised anything, only that I would sell it to them but that I couldn’t wait indefinitely because I needed it gone.
I told them about the message saying to go ahead and sell it if I needed to, but again they responded it was really crappy of me to do that knowing their kid needed a car and I would have gotten the money eventually.
My mom really needed to get the vehicle off her insurance quickly and i was running out of time. AITA?
Let’s see what the comments say:
This point was reiterated…a lot.
Like, over and over and over.
Though in this case, the parents seem to be the issue.
Seems like you steered clear of a problem.
If you thought that was an interesting story, check this one out about a man who created a points system for his inheritance, and a family friend ends up getting almost all of it.