{"id":23679,"date":"2025-07-21T10:50:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=23679"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:51:30","slug":"in-for-a-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/in-for-a-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"In for a penny…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s either the most elaborate scam that I’ve ever come across or I’ve managed to snag the best mini-excavator deal ever. I think it’s the latter but I’ll not know until I’m told that the machine is ready to be cleared through customs at Marseilles.<\/p>\n

In either case this morning I jumped right in and transferred an initial 30% deposit into an account in Luxemburg in order to trigger production and now it will just be a waiting game.<\/p>\n

I received another picture of the machine I’ve ordered which I’ve posted below and it’s a handsome little brute (if you like this kind of thing). <\/p>\n

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It’s not a toy. Far from it. It’s a commercial grade machine that if I was a contractor I’d be buying to use on small contracts – for digging trenches and foundations on site, for light landscape work, for general light work on farms and so on. To say that it’ll do what I want it to is a considerable understatement.<\/p>\n

Production should take 20-30 days after which I’ll be set up to do a video inspection. I’ll then be asked to pay the remaining 70% of the agreed purchase price and then it’ll be packed up and taken to the port to be shipped, which should take up to 50 days.<\/p>\n

So I should get the machine in around the middle of October and only then will I know that everything has gone according to plan. I’ve done all the due diligence that I can and I’m pretty confident things will work out \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s either the most elaborate scam that I’ve ever come across or I’ve managed to snag the best mini-excavator deal ever. I think it’s the latter but I’ll not know until I’m told that the machine is ready to be cleared through customs at Marseilles. In either case this morning I jumped right in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23679"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23690,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679\/revisions\/23690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}