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UPDATE Bought a used van, and all I got is a cell phone, can anyone help?

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have we even got one reply from op? definatley not a police mater if he has the car and title, there is however a lemon law here (i think). I have listed same exact thing, that i have so many cars i wouldnt mind getting rid of a few, i own more cars than can keep track of glad i just sold 2 of them since you have to keep your cars insured here even if you dont drive them unless you non-op them, i have 5 cars atm (one is truck another is jeep) but..
 
Skoorb said:
I want to know if buyer of van in this thread ever had the title and what did it say? Surely he received the actual title for a van paid for with cash, right?
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If the car was repossessed, that typically means the bank still had the title.

Who would buy a car without a title?
 
funboy6942 said:
Something I couldnt give because it was ppassed over to the guy I bought it from and he never bothered to put it in his name. Something I have done in the past and never got in trouble or had trouble for and there wouldnt of been any trouble had the dealership not signed off on the title to in the area marked for a repo.
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You can't do that here, they have to get it titled before you can get it titled in your name.
 
funboy6942 said:
I did have the title, and I did call my police which in turn wanted nothing to do with it and told me to call Jackson PD, the town I bought it in. The title was a "pass over". It was signed, BUT, the dealership that sold it, I found out, had signed in a sellers section where one would sign as if it had been a repo and the county clerk wanted repo papers and bill of sale. Something I couldnt give because it was ppassed over to the guy I bought it from and he never bothered to put it in his name.
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I'm going to stop reading there.

I shall proceed to facepalm. Then I'll roll my eyes and shake my head.

You put yourself in this position, mang.
 
You ever know someone that just seems to keep getting screwed over by life over and over? It just seems like they can't get a break and everything they attempt goes wrong.
Then one day you have the revelation that they bring 97% of it upon themselves through stupid choices and rash actions.
 
nakedfrog said:
You can't do that here, they have to get it titled before you can get it titled in your name.
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Since when.

One does not have to title the vehicle upon purchase/possession. Dealers do not title the vehicle. As long as there is a paper trail from one owner to another (on the title) there is not a problem.
 
Common Courtesy said:
Since when.

One does not have to title the vehicle upon purchase/possession. Dealers do not title the vehicle. As long as there is a paper trail from one owner to another (on the title) there is not a problem.
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I don't know, I didn't bother to look up the history of the law when they told me "you can't get the title of this vehicle until the previous owner gets it titled in their name" at the DMV 🙄
Perhaps you mistakenly assumed by me saying "AROUND HERE" that I meant "EVERY STATE IN THE FUCKING UNION", if so, allow me to assure you that's not the case, and that indeed, I was relaying my anecdotal experience stemming from a specific incident in my geographical region.
 
Everywhere I've lived, people have "curbed" cars. I buy it from Joe, never change the title to my name, turn around and resell it to Bill for a profit.

It's not exactly legal in most places, but it happens...a LOT.


Lots of ways to get fucked in these kinds of car sales. If Joe has liens against the vehicle, I don't know about them since I never dealt with the title...and Bill gets fucked when he tries to transfer title into his name with the bill of sale...from Joe.
 
BoomerD said:
Everywhere I've lived, people have "curbed" cars. I buy it from Joe, never change the title to my name, turn around and resell it to Bill for a profit.

It's not exactly legal in most places, but it happens...a LOT.


Lots of ways to get fucked in these kinds of car sales. If Joe has liens against the vehicle, I don't know about them since I never dealt with the title...and Bill gets fucked when he tries to transfer title into his name with the bill of sale...from Joe.
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The problem comes in when the second person signs the title, but never actually gets it titled.
 
nakedfrog said:
The problem comes in when the second person signs the title, but never actually gets it titled.
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In my scenario above, (I buy the car from Joe, sell it to Bill) I never sign the title since it's never been in my name. As far as DMV know, Bill bought the car from Joe.
Where the problems can come up is if Joe has liens against the car, or other title-related problems that Bill doesn't know about.
 
BoomerD said:
In my scenario above, (I buy the car from Joe, sell it to Bill) I never sign the title since it's never been in my name. As far as DMV know, Bill bought the car from Joe.
Where the problems can come up is if Joe has liens against the car, or other title-related problems that Bill doesn't know about.
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Yeah, and it sounds like the scenario in the OP means the title had already been signed.
 
nakedfrog said:
Yeah, and it sounds like the scenario in the OP means the title had already been signed.
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and there wouldnt of been any trouble had the dealership not signed off on the title to in the area marked for a repo.
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Yep. This was apparently caused by an error in whatever dealership passed-through the car.


BTW OP, I'd be slacking in my duties as one of the ATOT grammar nazis if I didn't point out that
there wouldnt of been any trouble
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is incorrect English. "There wouldn't have been any trouble," is proper. 😛
 
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Krazy4Real said:
You might want to call him from a different number and leave a message with a different name that you're interested in the van or any other vehicle he is trying to sell. See if you can arrange to meet up with him. Then when you do, you can confront him.
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that would go over well I bet
 
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