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Hi guys, I need some insight. I recently won an ebay auction for a car in Virginia. I'll be bringing it back to Canada actually, so I've spent the last day looking into the paperwork, etc. Today I got a message from the seller stating:
"The car is still registered in the dealerships address who I bought it from, my name is on the title as the buyer though, I was just going to give you the title like that and let you register it in your name! A friend of mine that is a dealer told me I could do that so I was just trying to avoid the DMV if at all possible. Let me know if you need me to register it in my name . Here is the sellers address on the title"
I'm not sure how it works with the VA DMV, but this sounds a bit odd to me. Shouldn't the owner have a new title after it was purchased, and is there a time limit that they have to register the car within? I don't see how I could take ownership of a vehicle in which there's no where on the title for me to be listed as the new owner.
Thanks in advance for your help.
-Ed
"The car is still registered in the dealerships address who I bought it from, my name is on the title as the buyer though, I was just going to give you the title like that and let you register it in your name! A friend of mine that is a dealer told me I could do that so I was just trying to avoid the DMV if at all possible. Let me know if you need me to register it in my name . Here is the sellers address on the title"
I'm not sure how it works with the VA DMV, but this sounds a bit odd to me. Shouldn't the owner have a new title after it was purchased, and is there a time limit that they have to register the car within? I don't see how I could take ownership of a vehicle in which there's no where on the title for me to be listed as the new owner.
Thanks in advance for your help.
-Ed