Well, in lieu of this guy defending himself (and you always should hear both sides of a story), here are my observations:

He's either a crook or a pathological liar.

A pathological liar cannot tell the difference between truth and fiction.

That means they might be telling you something false, but at the time they're telling it, they believe it to be true.

Of course, it's possible that this person deliberately lied because he's observed how so many people and corporations lie and usually get away with it to their advantage.

I can almost guarantee that if you confronted him, he would either express great suprise, or at least complete denial of any wrong doing.

Here in the U.S. we would take somebody like that to small claims court.

If you don't know cars, have someone who does come with you and check it out, go for a drive, look underneath - before handing over any $$ otherwise you sill get burned. People rarely sell an old car just to get something else, they always have some kind of problem, sometimes you can scam them and say wow that sounds really bad, i bet it'll cost $$$ to fix , here's 1/2 your asking price :)

I'd trust nobody selling something. it's not really in their interest to be honest.

yes i dont have much trust 4 people over the net but im usually a sucker for datsun people. i always think that another datsun bloke wouldnt rip me off. sorry to hear normo that in your case this wasnt true. but i can say with the few datsun people that i havew dealt with from this site i can say that i would trust them. maybe we should start a trader rating kinda like ausrotary. just put in your signiture members names that you have successfully dealt with. what do you's think???

So thats who got that motor and box LOL.
I know craig and myself only just missed out on that deal bye a few hrs. Thems the breaks.
PS: how did that diff center go broken any axles yet??

i bought a centre from "ca18det_man" and sold sum adapters to i think his name was "cadet_man".. i honoured wat i said.. and bought another diff from a bloke on here "matt" and sold a good a15 and celica 5speed to "sidedraught"
U CAN TRUST ME :P haha

Trust No one, how about this, i had (used to have) a mate who bought a lovely 1600 off me, i had bought it for $2350 had it for two years, rebuilt the engine, it had a 240k 5spd, twin dellortos and other gofast bits, was straight as a die. I sold it to him for $2400 and he handed over $400, as he was a mate i trusted him to drive it away. Hassling him for over a year to get the money out of him i was threatened by his father and the car was sent to Sims metal. That really hurt.

The best rule is to trust no one.
$1300 is pretty cheep for a coupe in my opinion. A lsd of any kind would be pretty $$$. Its always best to check on the goods before handing over the money. I guess you learnt the hard way.
I have had simaller happen to me buying over the net. A diff I once bought wasnt exactly what it was suppossed to be anyway #### happens and we get over it eventually.

yeah it had rust too
$1300 and 1000k's, by the time I got to QLD I trusted ACA18 enough not to lie on the ground, jack it up and test for LSD
All I wanted was LSD as my ute is nothing but wheelspin down low.
But yeah, yeah gotta be careful.
Worst of all on the way back 11pm a copper follows me, the borrowed trailer was out of reg. The fine $472 AND I had to leave it there until I got a registered trailer to pick it all up. This added another 700k to the trip.
Some days just keep gettin worse.

Christ, I hate that...... I guess it goes to show that just because you see guys regularly on this site, it doesn't necessarily mean they're beyond trying to rip someone off.
I suppose it's the same as the recent posts on the bloke who got gypped trying to buy 4SUSN....... Buyer Beware!

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So did it have rust ?