r/carflipping

Location: Oregon
Found out that I'm a victim of jumping title. In short, person A sold this car to person B which is signed on title.
Person B sold the car to person C but person C did not transfer the car under his name.
Person C sold the car to me with the title that has the name of person A signed as a seller and seller B as a buyer. And person C also gave me the bill of sale that has person B signature on it.
DMV denied the title transfer because I don't have the up to date Title that has person B sign as a seller and me as a buyer. DMV told me that the up to date Title is a Tennessee title, not Oregon Title. Now the seller(personC) blocked my number. I can no longer contact him. After checking the VIN, this car has never been reported stolen. What can I do in this case? I spent all my savings on this car.

I listed a 2019 Mitsubishi Outlander 4WD with 111,000 miles for 10,000. The car is good. Retail is about 13K. I reduced the price to 9300. But so far only gotten one message. It's been 3 days. The price is below market I'm surprised I'm not getting any leads. I posted it on fb market place, OfferUp, craigslist

I have a 2018 Subaru Impreza that I probably put too much into as in new engine, new suspension, brakes, tires, fluids, filters, paint and body work, etc. It looks and drives like new but has over 300,000 miles so get no real interest at $6K even when normal mileage examples go for $11-$12K. Have almost $5K in it and I've never had a problem flipping high mileage cars before if they are this nice. I recently picked up a 2016 Outback for $1500 that should sell for $6K as well. I was thinking of offering them together for $7,500 just to help sell the Impreza. Stupid idea?

I’ve always sold cars through myself but now I’m trying offload this car fast and I don’t want to wait for the title in the mail for a couple weeks. The owner signed the title but I haven’t filled it out. They released liability to me would that affect me selling the car to the next owner?

I’ve started noticing a pattern. The listings with 30 perfect photos, a detailed description, and every maintenance record attached are almost always priced correctly.
The genuinely interesting deals seem to come from listings with 3 blurry photos, “Runs good”, No effort whatsoever.

My theory is that buyers search by presentation, while flippers search by value.

Am I imagining this or have others noticed the same thing?

So i have an iaai account and i can buy anywhere i want in the us. How do i go about buying cars without physically looking at them and even inspecting them. I’m barely starting out and have 12k to invest. I know fees are up the ass so i don’t want to fuck up and buy a car with a shit transmission or engine and the only iaai auction is in my town. In cali btw

I found two cars on FBM for a really good price. I contact the first guy and ask if they want to meet somewhere? The guy says at my house and gives me the address. I punch the address in Google Maps and it comes up as a church address. So I message him back and say that he gave me a church address. He replies that he lives next door to the church. Same thing happened with the other car but it is in a different town and the address was a school. Why would they give me the address if they live Nextdoor? Is this some kind of scam? Has anyone ever had this happen to them? Btw I didn’t go to check out either car.

Hey everyone! I'm younger and new to cars, but I thought I'd take the opportunity to fix my families old jeep cherokee. It hasn't run in years, and I am lucky to come from a fairly privileged family that has enough cars and doesn't mind selling this old broken one off. Is there any suggestions I should go to begin to learn or find out how to do things and sell cars for profit? Thank you so much in advance.

The jeep in question hasn't run in 2 years. It's had a bit of transmission trouble and the alternator doesn't work period. It's a pain in the ass to even get the thing on lmao, which 90% it doesn't turn over. Tried jumping it multiple times too. I don't know the full extent of work to be done on it, but I plan on buying an OBD diagnostic tool to check the engine if the light comes on.

For note, im not really in this for a "quick easy money" thing. I want to learn how to work on variety of cars and learn mechanic skills that will help me in life, while make some money along with it.

Why do so many dealers claim they fully serviced their cars when in reality it's like 1 or 2 low cost repairs that they did?

I’ve been looking for motorcycles just for myself and thought an auction might be an affordable entry point. I’ve had a bike that has been in my favorites for a while and was wondering if anyone knew what’s happening.
It goes into auction, goes up to roughly $2k, sold, pops back in inventory with a buy now of $2k. Auction again-sold, back in inventory buy now 1500, and so on. Each buy now cycle slightly cheaper and is now sub $1000.
Are the people bidding bots to drive up prices and if a bot wins it just cycles back or is the winner just not paying the money for it?

I know not all auction are or have been scams. But it’s been a while since I’ve been involved and it seems different.

So I was told by a gentleman that if you were to buy a car with a salvage title that the person selling the car with the title that they couldn’t sell it for more than like 700 bucks is that true?

i have been having a tough fight with Manheim auction access.

the auction access web site will not let you upload any of your information you can go so far then it kicks you to the app.

the App crashes non stop on every device i have used apple , android etc i email them with no help or support i cant get my business uploaded to there system and i sit on the phone for hours trying to get help with nothing

im a licensed ga auto dealer and i cant get any thing uploaded to there network has any one had any issues or does any one have a contact far up the network there i can contact to get some help