[elcamino72]

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How do you plan to handle the cases where they are "selling for a friend" and the info is "only what he/she told me" line, especially that you see on the dealers sites where many of these cars are on consignment?

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The seller (owner of the car) is committing fraud by misrepresenting the car so the buyer has a case against the owner of the car. Now the case with consignments; if the consignment seller (person merely selling the car) knows the car is fake and still sells the car as legit, that's fraud and the buyer has a case against him as well.

Now the auction case is a little different, both guys are on the hook, both the auction company and the seller. The seller is on the hook unless he comes clean to the buyer (like you did 69LM1), but if the seller was to stay silient, that's fraud.