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mowermech
Feb 24, 2015Explorer
"Who knows maybe the ones trying to scare people off of Carfax are also the ones selling the chocolates."
Nope. If I have a vehicle for sale, and you want to pay for a Carfax, you go right ahead. If you decide NOT to buy the vehicle based on the Carfax report, it is your loss, not mine. In fact, a double loss: the price of the report, and you don't have the vehicle.
Somebody will come along and buy it, sooner or later, and I am probably in no hurry to sell anyway. Of course, the vehicle is to be sold "as is, where is, no warranty of any kind expressed or implied"!
After a little fender bender I recently had, I got a letter from the insurance company saying they had totaled the car. I found that interesting, since I had got the car out of the body shop a couple weeks prior to that, and the insurance paid for the repairs. Just out of curiosity I paid for a
Carfax report to see if the insurance had reported the car as totaled, since they also had not paid the lien off. The accident was reported, but it was not totaled. they got that right, at least.
It is worthy of note that most independent (not part of a franchised new car dealership) used car lots around here get their cars and trucks from one or the other of the local auto auctions. These are vehicles that the big dealers don't want on their lots for more than a couple weeks.
Nope. If I have a vehicle for sale, and you want to pay for a Carfax, you go right ahead. If you decide NOT to buy the vehicle based on the Carfax report, it is your loss, not mine. In fact, a double loss: the price of the report, and you don't have the vehicle.
Somebody will come along and buy it, sooner or later, and I am probably in no hurry to sell anyway. Of course, the vehicle is to be sold "as is, where is, no warranty of any kind expressed or implied"!
After a little fender bender I recently had, I got a letter from the insurance company saying they had totaled the car. I found that interesting, since I had got the car out of the body shop a couple weeks prior to that, and the insurance paid for the repairs. Just out of curiosity I paid for a
Carfax report to see if the insurance had reported the car as totaled, since they also had not paid the lien off. The accident was reported, but it was not totaled. they got that right, at least.
It is worthy of note that most independent (not part of a franchised new car dealership) used car lots around here get their cars and trucks from one or the other of the local auto auctions. These are vehicles that the big dealers don't want on their lots for more than a couple weeks.
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