Well Hi all, thanks for all the support, the wife has been checking the forum all day while i have been gone.
Been in about 20mins now and had to fill the wife in on todays events.
So best tell you all what has happened, arrived down in Dorchester about 1.45, Roger tells me to come in and have a chat.
While i have been busy selling my other Commer it seems that Mr scrap dealer ( who tried to buy it for peanuts ) has been busy working on Roger finally resulting in him turning up with a little below the asking price and convincing Roger that when and if i did turn up that i would try to knock him down hugely on price from what we had agreed.
Told him that he had seen it all before, that guys like me pay a deposit and then have no intentions of paying the agreed price and would pressure him into letting it go for nothing.
Roger is in his 60s and because of all this was sitting in his front room with both his next door neighbours because he was sure i was a scam artist and it would turn nasty.
After talking to him and his neighbours the penny finally dropped for him that mr scrap dealer was the tossing scam artist.
I showed Roger the money, and Roger showed me an empty garage.
I was so angry but not at Roger, he was just a little gullable and had been done like a kipper.
According to his neighbours Mr Scrappy is part of the local pikey family.
So Roger gave me my £500 plus my petrol and apologised for all the trouble.
The wife and the Kids are in tears, the boys thought i was coming home today with the new Van, the wife feels guilty because she wanted the other sold before i got the other.
I have an engine and gearbox being built for a Van i don't have.
I actually can't describe the way i feel at the moment,

heartbreaking to see the kids so upset.
A large lesson learned by me, No ones fault but my own.
Have reasurred the Boys that we will have another, and have told the boys that i will sell my escort to have more money to buy the best Commer ever.
I feel numb [V] and dumb.