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Originally Posted by ericschand
If you are serious about buying the car, leave a deposit when you decide you want
it but require the mechanic to check it out. $50 or so, no matter what the selling
price. Try to negotiate along the lines of "If it passes the inspection, with less than
$200 in repair required, I'll give you $10,000 for it. If more work is required, we can
renegotiate or call it off." Then leave a $50 deposit, after all, like above, you don't
want to spend the money on the inspection to find out he's sold it. Put it in writing.
If he still sells the car, there really isn't much you can do short of suing, but it
puts a good faith clause on the seller in writing.
ers
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I know I should have put it in writing, but practically speaking any conditional Bill of sale is virtually useless. Might have a bit more weight if it was with a dealership but there is not much I can do about a private sale.
The best I could hope for with a conditional bill of sale is to reclaim my inspection costs in small claims court.. the filing fee there is $100.. its not even worth the hassel.
As for a deposit... Onus is usually on the seller to require a deposit, not buyer. I have never heard of a buyer willing giving up a deposit without even being requested to do so. I'm glad I didn't as well.. the guy turned out to be a complete ######bag. I wouldn't be surprised if he would have kept it and still sold the car to someone else.