Well, hello everyone and welcome back to the channel and unexpectedly to a video update on the BMW 7 series. Now if you're one of my 75% of views that are not subscribed to the channel do go ahead and hit the subscribe button now so you don't miss out on anything more like this. However, more importantly follow me on Instagram because if you do follow me there you'll probably know what's coming in this video and the story I'm about to tell as I ran to them raved all about it on there. So Instagram link is in the description, go and click on it, give me a follow there and you won't miss out on the daily updates. So today you join me in a beautiful but very very cold and slightly snowy, when do the woods in Buckingham Shire is absolutely gorgeous here so quiet and it's nice to get away from the world especially when you've been played like a piano which I have. I put a video up a few weeks ago on the channel saying that it was time for me to part with the 7 series. I obviously explained all the reasons as to why I'm doing that in that video so click on the right hand corner of the screen now if you want to know exactly why the 7 series was put up for sale in the first place and as with my Z4 I put the car up as an auction with a starting bid of one penny so that I could really give anyone and everyone the opportunity to buy the car and just to see where the price went on it. Now when I sold the Z4 what happened was immediately after the winning bidder won the bid they decided to cancel the order which basically leaves me with absolutely no options but to oblige I looked at legal roots on if there's anything legally binding them out bidding on eBay for a car but they're basically isn't I had no option but to let them just cancel the order but luckily a very very kind subscriber of my named Matt was really interesting the car and pretty much came and picked it up the same day so that wasn't too much of a headache and so I thought I would give eBay again despite the advice from my friend Alex at Carthrottle who you'll know as Alex at Carthrottle he said basically never to sell anything on eBay he's had many many more bad experiences than I have at it and well let's just say I should have taken his advice so the 7 series went up on eBay it was very exciting it went up to £8,000 in the first few hours which was great because my reserve for the car was actually £8,000 so I was very very happy that the car was going to sell an excited sea obviously where the price went thereafter but also to see who ended up with it because I was in the hope that one of you guys would would end up with a car and maybe that still will happen as I'll explain in a moment but what happened next was well very very frustrating so the auction was one it actually bid up to £8,400 which was good and immediately I got in touch with the buyer who responded very quickly explained to me that he's based up in Edinburgh and I said well that's no problem because at the time the car was at my parents house which is actually only 15 minutes from Heathrow so I said to him not a problem I'll come pick you up from the airport you just choose a flight down I make myself available and we can go from there you can take the car for drive and check you're happy with it and we were speaking back and forth about this he came up with a flight I think this was the Monday and he said he's going to fly down on the Wednesday so it was very very quick I said great he gave me the time at the flight and we took it from there I dropped in my number I said leave me a message so I've got you there and that didn't happen which was the first little warning sign that was something it wasn't you know quite right didn't hear back from him but that was fine because he'd said in writing he was flying in on this 1410 flight from Edinburgh to London Heathrow it can only get to one terminal it's British Airways so terminal five and I went and you know parked up and went to the domestic arrivals area to wait for him and then what happened next I mean there's not much of a story to it but I waited for the best part of three hours and well it was a no show he never turned up I sent him more messages on eBay because he never did send me a mobile message so I didn't have his phone number sent him more message on eBay heard absolutely nothing now there was a flight arriving in from Edinburgh to Heathrow at 10 past two or 1410 and so that's what I thought he was on so I got there for that time and waited to the round three when it said baggage reclaim had finished although he probably wouldn't have come with any baggage but I thought given the benefit of the doubt I'll wait just in case he's waiting for a bag he got to round three and there was no show the baggage said bags delivered so I thought this is bizarre then I spotted there was a flight that actually left Edinburgh at 1400 so I thought okay there's a very small chance he's not responding to my messages because he's actually on the 1400 from Edinburgh not arriving to Heathrow and so he meant to say 1400 not 1410 so I waited that for that flight to land at around half past three and then the same thing again nothing happened I waited for the bags to show his delivered on that flight it was around half past four and still no sign of Scott the so-called buyer and no replies to any of my messages so basically I just spent 20 pounds on getting the car clean that day 70 pounds on putting the plate on retention or I think it's 80 even and obviously a bit of fuel getting down to Heathrow because I had to drive from A to B so bit of fuel and of course then the parking at Heathrow which cost me a nice bit of 30 quid so all in all about 150 pounds wasted on going to pick up a buyer at around three or four hours of my life for nothing there's three options here actually let's discuss and I'd like to hear your thoughts below number one is he was playing a prank now Alex again Alex cursed him from car throttles he said on Instagram that in response to my post about this he said we'll never try and sell a famous car on eBay and although I wouldn't describe this car as famous obviously it is known across the internet and so there was a chance then that option one he just thought it was a really funny prank to play me like a piano and just laugh at the fact that I would be wasting my day at Heathrow my money waiting for a buyer that really didn't exist so that is option one I can see the funny side of it obviously it's not something I would do for fun but you know if his wife is sleeping with his boss then I could understand why he would probably do that option two is he bottled it he just decided that actually I don't have the money or his wife that's sleeping with his boss said you can't have that car and also I'm sleeping with your boss and so he just bottled it didn't know how to tell me and just didn't respond to any my messages which I think would be possible but also very very pathetic in childish option three which is the one that I've sort of come to terms with and I don't mean to smile but maybe he's dead I mean that really is possible isn't it that he just went because I can't tell you obviously it's three bay and it's just text on the screen but the guy did seem genuinely authentic and enthusiastic he said he was a subscriber he loved the card wanted it for a while but obviously if he was just doing option one or two then he could have said anything he wanted really couldn't be but option three maybe he died but either way it's a little bit frustrating I'm actually really cold I cannot fill my hands as I'm holding the microphone here so seem silly really not to jump in the back of the 7 series where it's very very comfortable and just to continue this story a little bit more I'm much happier now I'm in the back of the 7 series and not on that snowy bench because I've got my heated seat on here in the back and of course I can recline and get myself nice and comfortable so as I explained the whole 7 series sail thing with eBay was a disaster and it fell through I did contact some of the people that had bitted before this guy but a couple of them didn't get in touch and a couple of them declined to purchase the car which a little bit suspicious they came up with some pretty interesting excuses actually but that's a shame that didn't work out it's not too much of a big deal because I do love this car as I explained I need the cash freed up so it's a little bit stressful from that perspective but it has afforded me to drive the car a few more times which I very very much enjoyed actually even today just driving the car out in this cold weather is such a weird juxtaposition between being in this warm cocoon this stupidly loud exhaust and then seeing the snow on the road I very much enjoyed it basically is what I'm trying to say however I'm pleased to say that the 7 series is once again advertised for sale not on eBay but with Silverstone Digital Auction so I'll drop a link in the description to that listing I think it ends on Wednesday so you've got a few days or so to go and have a look and bid if you're interested in this very car of course I could sit here for hours and tell you every reason you should buy it but I can't recommend it enough as an ownership experience it has been just wonderful if it doesn't sell it doesn't sell and I won't be sad about it I'll have to find some money elsewhere yeah it grows on trees right so I'm hoping it'll go to a loving new home and that'll make me equally happy to be honest so excited for the car to be on there on a reputable auction website where if you bid you have to pay which should be something that eBay do if you ask me but there we go that's essentially the story guys I hope you found that interesting it's unusual for me to sort of just sit and not really drive for an entire video but I've seen lots of you asking in the comments of subsequent videos from the 7 series and some of you actually who follow me on Instagram saying well what happened next so I thought I should provide an update for all of you there who who don't follow me on Instagram but also just want to know a bit more about exactly what went on I thought you might find a story pretty funny that I spent three or four hours just sitting for no reason either airport it's not all glamour this job that is the reality of it I got played like a piano really on that one if he was playing a prank on me bravo to you Merry Christmas but that's the situation really and that's what happened hopefully you found that slightly entertaining slash mildly amusing but also there's once again an opportunity for you to have a look at this car potentially have it on your drive within the next couple of weeks thanks for watching this one thanks for bearing with me on the content if this isn't for you with the whole sort of just sitting and talking thing no worries it's going to get very exciting very quickly as we go through the month so thanks for bearing with me I love you all thanks so much for watching my videos and I'll see you all very very soon