Although you can only say that the buyer has been very nieve as I understand it it is illegal to sell something in this country without informing the buyer of any known defects, of which this has plenty!
Yes fair comment, but would you buy a £15K item from eBay without going to kick the tyres first ?
And its not as though the pubs in Kent or the Shetlands or Timbucktoo either. Surely he could have gone to view it just the same as Joe Public can ?
Although i seem to recall the bidding going a bit silly and a lot of bids and bidders subsequently cancelled, and bidders thereafter being vetted.
I wonder what criteria Mr Bateson saw in Mr Ollerenshaw, to allow his bid to stand…?
Maybe, because he wasn’t that far away and ~assumed~ he would come & view it before auction close.
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