USED CAR SCAMS

You need a used car so you start surfing Craigslist, Ebay and all of the other classified local and national sites for an afforable used car. Bam you found it right price right year you are ready to write the check. Review the following guidelines it might save you a few thousand dollars. Recently, I received a phone call from an individual that had just purchased what he described as a collectable Mercedes which supposeingly was being stored at my used car lot. The true story was that the previous owner had abandoned the vehicle on my lot as it would not run but took a picture of the car waited a couple of years and posted it on Ebay using my address as the pickup point. The guy lost about 3,000. I would never pay for a car online until I had phycially seen the car and looked at the title prior to sale. The 300. airline tickent might save you a few thousand. You buy the car: I will get you the title in 10 days: Bad Idea only pay for the car when you can look at the title and have the title in hand: and Verify that the vin number is the same as on the title. The car has never been wrecked: Take car to body shop put it on a rack and also run a carfax. This is the actually mileage: Even in this electronic age there is a device called the black box that can be pluged into a car computer and run the miles back most states reguire dealers to provide previous owners name address and phone number. Cocked Eyed 6's: On older cars if the 6's are out of line the miles have been shorn something about lining up 6's is hard to master.