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Originally posted by forseti-6
Are logistics of transportations and registering the car tough? This is actually my main concern about buying a car on ebay.
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In a word, No.
I like fixing up busted jeep wranglers and buy early 80's through early 00's often and have bought 3 off ebay. If you want to play the fix up game like i do, you need to be educated in salvage title, flood damage titles, and such, as well as what states will give you a legit title once you've fixed the car and had it checked out by the state to meet code.
For the average buyer purchasing a non salvage vehical like your talking about, it's as easy as taking the bill of sale and title the selling will give you to your local tag agaency, paying the tax on what you paid for the car (you pay it in your state if different from the state of sale, and yes you HAVE to pay the tax even if you bought in online), and having the buyer sign over the title to you on the dotted line at the bottom. Your state will then print up a new title and dispose of the old one with the sellers signature.
If the car is driveable, just drive it home like mentioned, or google for car transport companies. You can have a car delivered from within about 800 miles for $450.00. Over 800 miles in the same region is about 600.00, and coast to coast will cost you as much as 1500.00. You need to take that into consideration if your looking at a car in california and your on the east coast. Bid the maximum you can after taking that into account for what you have to spend.