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Location: Grant Twp., MI |  So, I have a trailer ad posted here and I have also listed it on several other sites...have you ever sold a trailer and the prospective buyer asks you to deliver it...1,400 miles away!!! Any comments would be welcome...I think that if I were buying a trailer for mucho $ I would drive and see it in person...or fly out to see it....and if this person is serious...before I deliver it...I would want/expect payment in full....please everyone shout in on this....I do want to sell it but...... |
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Location: Mena, AR | There are services that will deliver a trailer for you. Most likely cheaper than doing it yourself. Time, gas, both ways. The buyer should pay for shipping. If they don't want to pay for shipping, walk a way. As far as payment, they can do a wire payment from their bank to yours. Do not send the trailer till you have payment in full. |
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Location: Texas | I dunno. A red flag goes up if they want you to deliver it, and have not looked at it in person. |
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Location: MD | Anybody ever used COD for the delivery, like the buyer pays the driver for the shipping? I think some trucking companies do that. Oh and I think it's odd that someone would buy a second hand trailer site unseen. I would never do it.
Edited by RidnClyde 2012-06-06 3:11 PM
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Location: high desert, CA. | RED FLAG! Someone who buys a trailer sight unseen is a fool, or a scam. I would demand payment in full, and if they want to have it delivered, do that commercially. I have taken trailers to Oregon, and Washington, as well as No. California and to Arizona. But, I was guaranteed payment before towing. I go to those states from time to time for family, so towing is a snap, as I can get the fuel paid, and see family too.
Edited by siseley 2012-06-06 5:58 PM
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Location: Texas | If you do not have payment in full, cleared by the bank, when you arrive with the trailer, they could jack with you in a few ways. One is for them to start offering less money, knowing you don't want to haul it home. Or, refuse it all together.
I drove 1400 miles to buy a trailer, taking a chance it was as advertised. I sent a $500 deposit for them to hold it until I saw it, but stated in payment that it was to be as advertised. It was my risk to chance the fuel to do this, but I had communicated a lot and actually had a previous connection with the seller after we chatted. |
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Location: Grant Twp., MI | Thanks everyone for your input...and actually numerous red flags were waving...this isn't my first rodeo so I'll wait and see...I actually drove from Michigan to North Carolina to look at a trailer and DID NOT purchase it as it was not as stated! I drove out to Kansas to purchase my current trailer...so I think that $$ isn't that disposable, at least not to me...and if I don't hear from him again...oh well... |
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Delivering a trailer
