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RealRubirosa wrote:

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famenycity1 wrote:

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your good op, he can turn around and sue you on the ground no contract is made. plus the sale of goods over $500 has to be in a written contract not verbal, check your state last homie...might be some loopholes though

The CL ad + email accepting to buy should be enough to satisfy that. Could be trouble if the correspondence was done over the phone though. Even text messages could be enough to be considered "in writing," today. As long as there was a signature on something at some point and all the discussion obviously was about the sale of the car in question, you should be able to get around the SOF thing.

The "as is" issue could be a problem, too. Depends on the state/judge though. Usually, there needs to be a disclaimer of warranty otherwise there could be an implied one that would suggest that the car should work to expectation--a 20 year old car shouldn't be expected to work too well though. Also, you could argue that the usual commercial dealings on CL are done "as is" and expecting otherwise is unreasonable.

I'm not completely familiar with "lemon laws" but I think it's where the consumer has x amount of days to return the car if it has some substantial issue that he wasn't notified of at the time of purchase. If you brought it up before he bought it, that could help. If you didn't, he could claim that you did a misrepresentation in the dealings and could rescind the contract. Usually, that would just mean you'll have to give him the money back and he'd give you the burnt out car back.

Y'all's agreement to renegotiate on the price after getting the repairs quoted or whatever is most likely worthless because agreeing to negotiate isn't a contract. 

Keep in mind, this is just my interpretation based on the info I saw in the thread and I'm not yet an attorney so this is just my opinion on how it could turn out from my understanding of the law.