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5 pages in and I still check every few hours to see if the OP will come back and say why they would even consider buying the car back.
Buy it back and... do what with it, exactly? What would they do with it now? Sell it again to someone else for less money? I can't think of a single reason anyone would even consider doing something like this. I'm sure the OP is a very nice person who just wants to do what they think is the right thing, but what this amounts to is simply taking money out of your pocket and just giving it away to total strangers for no reason at all. The buyer says that the car won't start, but obviously that wasn't a problem at the time they bought the car, or they wouldn't have been able to drive it out of the OP's yard.
5 pages in and I still check every few hours to see if the OP will come back and say why they would even consider buying the car back.
Buy it back and... do what with it, exactly? What would they do with it now? Sell it again to someone else for less money? I can't think of a single reason anyone would even consider doing something like this. I'm sure the OP is a very nice person who just wants to do what they think is the right thing, but what this amounts to is simply taking money out of your pocket and just giving it away to total strangers for no reason at all. The buyer says that the car won't start, but obviously that wasn't a problem at the time they bought the car, or they wouldn't have been able to drive it out of the OP's yard.
You would have to buy the car back, and incur the DMV fees again to transfer title back to yourself.
You should feel no obligation at all to buy the car back. The new owner needs to get fixed whatever has gone bad since they bought it.
Agree, you should feel no obligation, but if you're THAT good of a guy, have the person you sold it to pay the fees for you buying it back. It's really not that unreasonable. They can either be out $3000 or just the amount of the fees.
Agree, you should feel no obligation, but if you're THAT good of a guy, have the person you sold it to pay the fees for you buying it back. It's really not that unreasonable. They can either be out $3000 or just the amount of the fees.
From the seller's point of view, it's completely unreasonable - in fact, it's beyond unreasonable. It's just insane.
He sold a car that worked properly, and now he would be buying back a car that he knows does not run - and he's paying the same price as it cost when it did work properly. That just makes no sense at all on any level. He might as well have just thrown a match into the gas tank at the start of the whole thing, instead of selling it at all.
I sold a high mileage Saab 9-5 wagon to a kid for his first car. I had done ALL the typical maintenance jobs these cars need and it ran great, it was actually a super nice car wish I kept it with hindsight.
Less than a week later I had a very angry father on the phone "listen to it" he yelled as he held the phone to the engine bay.
Poor thing sounded like a bag of smashed glass and nails as the offending son revved the $hit out of it to prove it's ailment.
I told them sold as seen and approved (and signed as such) and sorry I could not help.
He threatened me and that was the last I heard, I hope the son got a beating from the nasty old git.
Once you give money to the DMV, you will never see it again.
I don't know if that is necessarily the case. I know this happened with me on a sale of a commercial truck. I know they were able to get the cost of the tag back and they might of got the sales tax back. There were some fees they had to pay. I know it didn't cost me anything and wasn't going to under any circumstances, they reissued the title to me.
For future reference when ever selling a used vehicle be perfectly clear if the tires fall off while they are driving away it's not your responsibility. I'm the type of guy with soft heart and would probably be in the same boat as the OP. I'm up front with people with what issues I'm aware of, my conscience is clear by making it perfectly clear to them I don't want to hear anything about any issues after they buy.
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