To be fair, it's a car with 9 months MOT. Perhaps not to us, but for someone it's easily worth £50, and probably worth more than the £155 it ended at. I'm sure plenty of folk pay more for a car that lasts less time than that...
If it ran for 9months and cost nothing but fuel, insurance and road tax - bargain
Whatever happened to the buy a car for £500 and run it into the ground, it’s not such a bad philosophy