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have you recieved the GT-R ? Prestige tend do edit the auction sheets allot.. dairyboy is by far a great importer.. but doesnt give refunds if you have put a deposit then changed your mind :D

Congratulations... you have posted the most moronic and plainly stupid thing I have ever read on this forum.

Prestige does not alter auction sheets: its not in their interests to do so since they recieve a once of fee regardless of the car purchased. Furthermore, if you had actually used Prestige's service you would know that the auction sheets are hosted by the Japanese auction house website, not by Prestige.

Get a clue before you start making accusations like that.

LW.

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guys, we've had this thread reported for defamatory posts about certain importers (Prestige and J-spec). If you have praise, go nuts, but we don't wanna be on the recieving end of lawsuits because of your opinions.

Please feel free to edit your posts (before I go thru em n edit them n get you all upset) and remove any negative comments you may have about any importer. And refrain from doing so in further posts.

sorry. but its what i heard about prestige.. not from myself.. maybe hes wrong? (the guy)

so you are slagging a business over hearsay? nice work!

I appreciat where the SAU are comming from and I appologise for what I wrote if it up set them!

HOWEVER I do not appologise to J-Spec at all, what I wrote about J-Spec was true. If you want to know what I am talking about PM me and I will fill you in, in detail.

Apparently its ok to slag on Geoff but not the "other" dodgy companys.. Do I see some Bias here???

read... i said don't slag geoff or j-spec. i suspect the reason PranK didn't delete what LaL said is because it was completely discredited a couple of posts down.

re deposits, you are buying the car from the auction, the broker is just helping you through the process - at no stage does the broker own the car...you do.

So if you buy a car then change your mind....you just gotta sell it again. not the broker's issue.

I appreciat where the SAU are comming from and I appologise for what I wrote if it up set them!

HOWEVER I do not appologise to J-Spec at all, what I wrote about J-Spec was true. If you want to know what I am talking about PM me and I will fill you in, in detail.

Apparently its ok to slag on Geoff but not the "other" dodgy companys.. Do I see some Bias here???

I can assure you that there is no bias, having never bought a car from either of these organisations.

I can also assure you that if J-Spec, Prestige or any other company wanted to take legal action for any slander posted on these forums, theres only 1 dude who they'd come and see... and I'll let you work out who that is. :D

Christian

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Hi new to forum thought I would post here rather than make a new thread.

Im planing to spend 10 to13g on a 1989 gtsts skyline + $2000 for compliance regoetc within the next two months just gotta get my new job sorted. I have been looking for a while and think I will get quite a reasonable gtst for that money i just want to know if you guys think I will I dont want to kid myself as I have never imported a car before.

Thanks in advance James

how many other cars have you owned before the one you importing?

i reckon if you've owned a few cars and have ****ed around with them a bit previously will help.

if you don't like tinkering with cars a import could just piss you off.. Dunno

Gotta stand up for Prestige. Bought 2 cars in 6 months from Geoff (nearly a 3rd too), and he's been a pleasure to deal with. Been getting busy lately, but Geoff is always available to help out in any way that he can.

I don't usually get into threads like this, but if you haven't personally dealt with someone, I don't think you should be making assumptions about their service. Of course there'll always be someone who may have had a bad experience, but if so then let THEM post their tales (in a non-defamatory manner).

Geoff has always been straight up with me, esp. with the Yahoo cars. For this reason I can't see any reason not to import any other cars through him in the future.

jimmy, with that sort of budget you should be able to pick up a very nice 1989 GTSt. In fact with that budget you can even buy a post 1989 GTSt in australia these days. However keep in mind that 1989 GTSt's were only released in August (even tho production started in May) so you may need to keep the car in Japan till its 15 years old.

Also between 1989 and 1991 certain production batches of R32 skylines were recalled 3 times for various problems, for a car that old to still be on the road it usually would have been fixed up, but there are the odd one or two that may have slipped thru without the changes, and there's no way to tell until you get the car. What I'm trying to say is that a 1989 GTSt is not as good as a post August 1991 GTSt, but for the difference in price you ca usually to a stage where its far better than the second series R32's.

At the end of the day, a Skyline is a sports car and no person in their right mind buys a sports car to drive it like a pansy (no matter what country they're in), so as long as you are able to accept that fact and trust in your broker's abilities and gurantees then you should be fine.

Oh and you gotta have a LOT of patience n trust, some brokers will give you a step by step breakdown and reciepts the whole way thru requiring payments as each step is completed, others will get a deposit, do the whole thing for you and then get a lump sum. The method you get depends on the brokers you go thru. Either way problems may arise and delays are to be expected.

Thanks for the replies I am aware it is a 15 yera old sports car. I just dont want to be told its has good mechanicals/great exterier then receive the car and be let down. I also have another 5g on top of my stated budget if there is something wrong with the car. Basically the question im asking is for 10 to 13g will i get a nice r32 gtst with no major mechanical problems (eg require engine rebuild after 1 month of receiving it can pay for it if it happens though) and good exterior small dints scratches to be expected. From what i heard j-spec and prestige sound honest and I am deciding between on of those for my car.

Thanks James

James

Yeah I though about that but on the web sites you can get nice moded one for about 11g and and similar in australia cost heaps more in from what ive seen. So im prepeared to take the risk thats why I have 5 g spare incase something stuff up.

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