Oh crap story time. About 2010?
Was looking for a sprinter van, found a really nice one on fleabay, contacted seller directly, against all the fleabay rules and clever blocking ploys.
I'm in Wisconsin
seller in New York
Van in California
A loan holder in Detroit.
Agreed to a price, he had a loan with Chrysler credit that was over the agreed price. This was a late model van $20K plus.
I sent a bank check priority for the asking price to Chrysler credit, seller said he sent the balance.
Got a ticket and flew to LA, seller to "meet me at the airport".
Get in to LA, call guy. "Didn't you get my message?" Well no I was on an airplane...
Big ice storm, I couldn't get out of New York!
My cheeks start clenching...
No, no, no, here's the address, it's at my sons house, sitting on the street, the key's in the tail pipe.
Grab a taxi (house is only a few miles from the airport) get there, yup! van-key, fire it up and head home 2000 miles, Ice snow wind storm across the rockies Iowa etc. Got home, loaded up van and we took off for Mexico. Well we ended up not crossing the Border cuz title, license plate etc. took a bit to get. All good, kept the van 10 years and 100K plus miles.
At the beach right after I picked it up.
Hick Farmers LOL
I've done the buy n fly many times, cars, vans, bikes but this was the most complicated one.