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Re: Private Car Purchase--Horror Story

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From: The Chipmunk
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 19:55
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Written in article <1992Jul8.145923.9032@ms.uky.edu>
    by kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron):

: A word of caution:  If you see a car-for-sale ad that says "take over
: the payments", most likely the seller got royally scr*wed by the salesman
: and the car is worth less than the loan amount.  Generally you want
: to stay away from these...

Not necessarily scr*wed by the salesman.  The seller may have been
scr*wed by Fate.  I was looking at some cars with a friend.  He had
called someone who was selling a nice, new Maxima for only TOP.

We never met the seller, but we saw the car sitting out front at the
address he gave us ... I don't know WHAT happened to that poor car, but
it was pretty clear that TOP plus repair bills would be *well* over the
car's value!

The seller couldn't have had insurance, because otherwise he'd have
fixed it before trying to sell it.

-- 
The Chipmunk.
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From: asylvain@felix.filenet.com (The Chipmunk)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,ca.driving
Subject: Re: Private Car Purchase--Horror Story
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Date: 13 Jul 92 19:55:38 GMT
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