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Re: My eBay Spitfire - the sage continues.. advice

As another idea, there must be some BCFer in a state which allows easy re-titling of old cars. I am sure that someone here would be willing to help out and "buy" the car and get it titled where ever and then "sell" it to you. Kind of a pain but it could solve the problem. As I understand it, some stated only need a police (sheriff?) report verifying that the car is not stolen, ect for a title to be issued. From that new title it should be easy to get a PA title.
 
Re: My eBay Spitfire - the sage continues.. advice

Thanks all.

I really appreciate the help. I'm going to call the seller tomorrow and explain all this.

One point of clarification; I want to be *absolutely certain* that the car does not need to be smogged in order to issue a duplicate title. I checked this AM and the car is sitting in Linden NJ waiting to be offloaded for shipment to the local terminal in PA. There's no car in CA to smog, it's already here!

It's frustrating that I need to explain to the seller how to title the vehicle in CA in order to sell it out of state. A reasonable person would expect that this was all sorted before the auction ever hit eBay (it was advertised as having a clean title).

Lesson learned, I will insist on seeing a copy of the title before any cash ever changes hands.

One last detail... anyone have any suggestions on how to tell the wife there's a car about to arrive? Maybe one of those giant Lexus bows /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
AngliaGT said:
<span style='font-size: 8pt'><span style="color: #CC0000">After I got the Datsun B210...</span></span>
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Wow, now THAT takes me back!! In the 1970s I was looking for a car, and being a non-car-type kid I was in a whole world of stuff I didn't understand. For some forgotten reason I really wanted a Mustang II Ghia which was basically a rebodied Pinto but it was out of my "impoverished college graduate" budget so I was just looking around when at a local mall there was a display of B210s. Well this was just after the original Arab oil embargo and the B210 hit me as being the greatest thing since sliced bread! I was talked out of buying one by family members but I got even with them by getting a TR7 instead. I haven't thought about B210s in years! Let's see, I was also looking at Lancia Betas and Porsche 914s back then...

- Steve Richardson
St Louis MO
76 TR7
50 Dodge Wayfarer
 
Scott - I'm not sure if she'll need to be smogged in CA to get the title. I tend to doubt it since the current owner could simply request the title whenever he wanted.
 
tdskip said:
Scott - I'm not sure if she'll need to be smogged in CA to get the title. I tend to doubt it since the current owner could simply request the title whenever he wanted.
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Good, thats a relief...
 
You can get a title without registering a car here.
You need a smog cetificate to register,but not to title it.
Hope this isn't confusing - or redundit.

- Doug
 
Scott_Hower said:
One way or another, the paperwork will sort itself out, eBay guarantees the deal.
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It is a very limited time guarantee, and is based on you starting the claim before the time is up. Don't wait to file a claim with e-bay until it's too late. As I recall, you've got 45 days to get the ball rolling from the date the auction ends.
 
foxtrapper said:
Scott_Hower said:
One way or another, the paperwork will sort itself out, eBay guarantees the deal.
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It is a very limited time guarantee, and is based on you starting the claim before the time is up. Don't wait to file a claim with e-bay until it's too late. As I recall, you've got 45 days to get the ball rolling from the date the auction ends.
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90 days; I've already contacted eBay and have the claim info/link, just in case.

That is my last resort option; as I'd much rather keep this deal on friendly terms.

Thanks!
 
Having used eBay's resolution solution I would not out much faith in it.

Maybe for a title they would actually step up, but I found them useless and what their policy covered to be riddled with so many holes as to make the coverage pretty much useless.

I don't think you'll need to get to that point Scott.

Has the seller responded on how they are going to help you fix the title issue?
 
What a shame!

We can still make the transfer with a pink slip
notarized signatures of buyer/seller.

d
 
tdskip said:
Has the seller responded on how they are going to help you fix the title issue?
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Not yet; last I heard from him was on Saturday. He said he was going to DMV to do some more research.

I sent him a messsage telling him what I thought was needed to get a duplicate title in California. No response yet. I think he's irritated with me because I keep asking where it stands.

To be fair, it was advertised as clean title, so I'm just asking for what was advertised.
 
Update - no contact from seller since Saturday; he's now ignoring my emails.

Also DAS (shipping company) seems to have lost the car somewhere between Linden NJ and Wilkes Bare, PA. DAS Corporate says they've dropped it off at the local redistribution center yesterday afternoon. Redistribution center says they don't have it. Anyone seen a blue Spitfire? Agghhhhhh...!

So if you are keeping score, I have no car and no title and no cash. Any bets on which will turn up first ... the title or the car?

Stay positive... stay positive...
 
I had a car shipped from New Jersey to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada by DAS. About a 10 hour drive normally. Took more than 6 weeks. And they charged me an arm and a leg for the priviledge.

They lost my car too. Somewhere between Patterson and Toronto. You'd think that would be hard to do. The Call Centre people were very nice, but truly hopeless in terms of doing anything to help. The car finally arrived scratched, battery completely flat from the lights being left on for 6 weeks, broken inner door handle, a few other minor nits. All fixable, but really irritating.

No apology from DAS, no follow-up, no nothing. Let alone any thought of a customer-satisfaction refund. Never again.

Ironically, I did this, and paid the premium, because I really didn't know much about shipping and getting vehicles across the border, and thought I would just leave it to the 'pros'. Silly me.

All I can add is, hang in there...'this too shall pass'...
 
tdskip said:
Scott_Hower said:
Well they found it in Syracuse, NY.
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What!??! How the heck did it get up there? It was so close....
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No idea; DAS swore to me yesterday morning that the next stop for the carrier was PA. The truck must be stopped for loading/unloading in NY, as the satellite status hasn't changed since noon. Either that or the driver is out of hours.

It had better arrive tomorrow or Saturday, as I'm leaving on business Sunday morning and won't be back for a while.
 
Hmmm!...I contracted with DAS for transport of my 1980 Spit
from Mission Viego Calif........to .....Cleveland...Then 60 miles to Canton Ohio in less than a week the car was off loaded in my driveway......VERY satisfied.I'd us-em again if needed.And it came through snowy cold weather in the month of March in 2002.....Where ever you buy any more it seems theirs bad management everywhere,gotta stay on your toes.,& double check everything,especially with Ebay purchases.
 
myspitfire said:
Hmmm!...I contracted with DAS for transport of my 1980 Spit
from Mission Viego Calif........to .....Cleveland...Then 60 miles to Canton Ohio in less than a week the car was off loaded in my driveway......VERY satisfied.
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Well, it was loaded on 19 January and it's now sitting in upstate NY near Niagra Falls. Three weeks and counting.

I paid extra to ship it in an enclosed trailer and for the past 4 days it's been running around in an open carrier all over the east coat (snow/salt). Thanks DAS.
 
Update:

I chased the status with a bunch of phone calls this morning. Looks like the car is in Wilkes Barre, PA and will be delivered today.

That's the good news. The bad news is they lost the keys. The DAS driver forgot to leave them at the terminal (HOW DO YOUR FORGET TO LEAVE KEYS?!?!) So I have a car, no keys, no title. DAS is going to FedEx the keys tonight.

Can anything else possibly go wrong with this transaction? Lost car, lost keys, no title... my wife says this should be a Saturday Night Live skit.

Stay positive... stay positive...
 
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