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Old 08-30-2005, 06:10 AM
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Default Re: car buying advice from out of stste

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Are you willing to throw away $50K? If not, you need to buy a plane ticket and do the transaction in person, period. Before you do this you contact a shipping company like Intercity and tell them that you need the car picked up on a certain day at a certain location, you may have to pay extra for that, or you can rent a u-haul and trailer and tow it to one of their depots to be loaded there. Either way if you buy it sight unseen you will probably get ripped off. And if you go there and buy it and then let it sit there awaiting pickup, parts will start disappearing from it and then you'll never be able to prove if the parts were stolen during shipping or the seller took them off. Either way you will have a bunch of trouble trying to recover any money. Sorry for the depressing verdict but unfortunately that is the way some people are out there these days.

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Steve is right!! what's another 800 in air fare to make sure its the right ride at this point, if you have done your homework its what you want anyway, when I bought the 67 it looked great in pics and the guy was real easy to talk with over the phone, but at the time what I paid for it was all the money in the world to me, well good thing I flew down cause it was not perfect like he described and a few things came up not being there like he said...worked out fine, we discussed the issues and arrived at new figure for the car paid for it and had it shipped home, if I had not been there in person I would have been out about 4 grand and liked it..
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