Something fishie????

moneypit said:
you say yes to the14k. They show up and offer 11 or 12k
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Exactly!

A lot of people get excited when someone is that interested to offer cash on a car they haven't even seen yet. They show up, wave a few thousand less and say "It's all the cash I could get together, take it or leave it!" because most people take it. It's a good tactic.

Either way, I'd be carrying or have someone who is when you meet anyone buying/selling a car privately...or like others said a police station.

Just my 2 cents. =)
 
The gent who purchased my black Vette paid in cash, per my request. No holds on checks, no BS. He handed me cash and I handed him the title.
 
I've met people at the bank to make the transaction. If there's a lien against the title, they'll sign off on the spot, so you can avoid the holds.
 
sidewayscoupe said:
I hundreds it really isn't that much.

I took 26k with me to PA for my 03 and it fit nicely into my Old Navy cargo shorts..
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i'd believe it. i saw $55k in $100 bills recently, and it was a surprisingly smaller stack than i had imagined.

i think what might be more crazy. the kid that bought my 240sx saw the car at the DSM shootout in 2010, where i had someone drive it with a FS sign in the window. through email the kid agreed to buy it, and i would meet him in columbus Oh, because i was going there for the week to work with my dad. i'd drive my car there, and go home with dad in the truck. i had not seen the guy in ohio yet (he was from PA and we'd never actually met), but on trust alone he wired $13k to my bank account the day before the transaction was to go down. i went to bed feeling kind of uneasy for the kid. i still had my car, AND i had $13k that wasn't mine in my bank acct. very, very trusting person. i hope that doesn't get him screwed someday.
 
kovacs32 said:
yeah now that i stop and think about it its only 260 $100 bills, what was it like 3 bundles?
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actually, it's 2,600 of 'em.
so, 26 of these stacks. or stacks this high at least. :lol:
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I bought my first trans am for $16k in cash and met the guy at a train station in Milwaukee, took the train from Chicago and sat at Union Station for like 4 hours with it in an envelope in my backpack, never been so paranoid about holding onto a backpack in my life
 
In God we trust, everyone else pays CASH!

I would have her meet you at the bank so you can deposit the money right away.
 
91trunk said:
In God we trust, everyone else pays CASH!

I would have her meet you at the bank so you can deposit the money right away.
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This.

Not to be paranoid, but one of the scams out there is she buys the van with a wad of cash and her accomplices rob you after she drives away. Do it at the bank and deposit the cash on the spot.
 
Have some of you ever sold a vehicle before?
When you sell a vehicle, your required to either transfer the title at the point of sale at the SOS or make copy's of the purchasers drivers license and the title with all of the purchasers information filled in on the title. Were talking photo copy's here. Your also required to keep the information for years to come. It would also be a good I idea (since every one carry's a phone with a camera now days) to take a picture of the purchacer and the vehicle/plate of the vehicle they arrived in.
As a purchacer, I want the title in my name as fast as possible, so if possible I just go straight to the sos. and transfer it.
I don't think someone going to hand you a wad of cash, their drivers license to make a photo copy of, sign the title, smile for a picture, then rob you of the cash they just handed you and take your vehicle.
It would be much easier just to car jack someone.
 
The last car I bought, my 99 TA, I told him I woldl pay cash if he went to the SOS with me and transferred the title. Worked out fine, I wouldn't to a P2P sale any other way.

-Geoff
 
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