Question by : Was I royally screwed by car salesman?
So I found a great deal on a car that had a few issues (which the seller informed me of as well as the car being repossessed), so me being a broke college student and my brother a mechanic I figured it was the perfect situation. Great deal and bro can help me out getting it running great.
The seller seemed very honest provided the notarized repossession papers (which took the lien off the title) and signed the title over to me with it notarized (NC title). I thought great, no worries. Well I go to the NC plate agency and they tell me that since the dealer never had the title transferred in Alabama (the state in which he holds a dealers license) and the repossession papers are from NC (though the lienholder was stationed in SC, car was repossessed in NC, shouldn’t it be NC papers which I have?) that I need repossession forms from SC, reassignment of the title from the lienholder to the dealer I bought it from in SC, and also reassignment papers from the dealer to me from Alabama since his license is in Alabama.
It seems to me like maybe this is just a paper pushing/taxing issue in NC. I figure he just did all this on the NC title to save time and not have to pay taxes on the car, but I can’t imagine I can get him to go to all the work to get all those papers and run back and forth. I am trying to get in contact with the dealer now, but what if he is unresponsive? I do have a bill of sale, if I am unable to get all the papers that are needed can I sue for the amount on the bill of sale or am I forced to eat it since I didn’t investigate the title to make sure it was indeed transferable to me? From what I saw the title was last signed over to him and was notarized, then he signed it over to me notarized, how was I to know all this hadn’t been done?
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Answer by Mark
yeah ,, no you did not get screwed , you screwed your self . but you asked for it. actually you begged for it.
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Confused Says:
Did you buy it private party or from a dealer because you use seller and dealer…If you got it from a dealer, you have no problems as the dealer is responsible for perfecting the title or giving you all of your money back. I would contact the DMV in the state it was last titled in and see if they can help. You have established a paper trail and have notarized documents. You can go after the bond of the notary agent if they were involved in a fraud.
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whocares Says:
Dealers are bonded to ensure that they help you take care of such issues.
This is highly unusual going through different states & a repo to boot.
But the dealer will get it resolved. You have to give him some time.
If not, you can sue him. You might get a court date in a month or two at which time the judge will give him another month or so.
In the meantime, you should be able to get one or more temp tags.
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David G Says:
Dealers don’t pay taxes so there was no reason for him to short cut anything. I had a similar situation happen with a vehicle I sold in TN to a NC customer. They called months later and said the DMV said I had to give bills of sale for each dealer to dealer transaction. I informed the customer that if I did that it would show what I paid for the vehicle and that I am a licensed dealer and the DMV is wrong and told him to go to another line and ask someone else to register it. This went on for 3 days.
On the 3rd day he went to a different office and they accepted the same paperwork. It sounds like you have the exact same situation.
NC is a crazy place to register a car.
