Of course, Tim! I had an mechanic inspect the car at my expense, spent at least 1.5 hours on the phone with the seller, looked at 20 plus pics in detail. Googled him to the extent that I and pretty much know what he had for breakfast last Thursday LOL! And I only do wire transfers now.
The real issue is that the shipping company will not pick the car up without a scanned unaltered copy of the front and back of the title. Their broker needs this to start the paperwork for clearing customs. So, that alone is a deal breaker for a US-Canada sale. He would not provide this - that is just fishy.
However, what was more upsetting was the fact that his reluctance to share his address (which I already knew and confirmed by a pic that he sent of this house and Google maps) sent a message to me that all of our "friendly" dealings were BS. Also, he never once mentioned that he had any sort of reluctance in the deal. If he would have done that, I might not have wasted $350 and a bunch of my time.
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Mark
1996 Carrera & 1993 Fat Boy
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