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ALWAYS GET A RECIEPT!!!
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Posted by david on July 16, 2002 at 11:03:51 from (63.165.10.205):
I've recently made a deal to trade a tractor for another tractor. On my part of the trade I'm delivering a tractor to Iowa from Texas. I've had a 16' bumper pull trailer that I bought from a so-called " buddy " for about a year now. I bought the trailer for $150.oo. It was in rough shape, pretty much just a frame and axles. The thing I liked about it was that it had a heavy frame, just like the $1800.oo trailer that tractor supply sells as a car hauler except it had a rotten wood deck. Over the last year I've pretty much reconstructed this trailer and have about $600.oo into it now, along with some great fenders made out of 10" junior channel that a fella gave me the idea about on a tractor talk forum. I got the trailer finished and was planning a trip to Iowa this friday. Yesterday i went down to get it registered along with the serial # I had found for the first time this past weekend when I was painting the trailer. It is a stolen trailer! OOOUUCCHH. My heart sank to my boots! I paid the $2.oo to have a title search on it and found (with the use of the internet) the owner. I contacted the owner and explained that I had just sank $600.oo into his trailer. I had bought the trailer from this guy who swears he didn't know it was stolen and now I'm having trouble contacting him since the first phone call. I have no reciept and I'm now waiting for the worst. Fellas what I'm trying to say is, that when you buy anything with wheels get a reciept and cover your but. I hope this helps someone. I told the owner that I will do whatever he wants as far as if he wants the trailer back or some sort of payment for the title. As far as my ol' buddy I bought this thing from, I'm not so much mad rather than discouraged. Sometimes these types of "litmous test" are needed to find out who your standing with. Apparently my judge of character is not what I thought it was.
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