'I was enraged until it dawned on me that the car wasn't in my name': Man scammed after purchasing $800 used car, collects $3,000 in parking tickets for revenge

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    Posted by u/John-Wilks-Boof 17 hours ago $800 Car Turns into $3000 in Tickets
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    From 2018-2022 I(25M) was a consistently broke pizza delivery guy. My common method for vehicles was to buy cars for >$1000, do minor repairs and drive them for 3-6 months until they exploded. I'd make
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    10x on the car and would wash repeat, did this probably 7 or 8 times over the years. The only time I ever got burned was buying a 98 civic coupe. I remember
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    I was a lil extra broke but needed a car for work that week and civics/corollas were/are the easiest and cheapest for me to work. on.
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    I texted him and drove to felony flats in Portland (red flag 1) and was greeted by a man with a gold grill (red flag 2) who didn't speak much english, which wasn't helped by my poor Spanish.
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    The car itself was pretty beat up cosmetically but. ran perfectly so I gave him the $800 and headed to work. This is where the fuckery begins.
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    The next day I head to the DOL to register the car only to realize that the title was voided due to the car being in a wreck so I wouldn't be able to register til I got the proper title. Annoying but I figured
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    he made an innocent mistake. I call him and leave a message saying there's issues with the title and he dosent respond. I call 100+ times over the next 2 weeks to get it figured out but he keeps
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    ignoring me, and at this point I figure I've been had, I move the car to the public street to deal with another day. One morning I come out to find tickets for no registration and no insurance left on the car
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    $150-$200 between the two, and a tow warning. At first I was enraged until it dawned on me that the car wasn't in my name and those tickets weren't mine to deal with, so I made a plan.
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    Every few days the car would get reticketed and tagged for towing, I would come out, place the tickets on the driver seat, move the car by a few feet and erase the tow warnings. After 2ish months I had racked up
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    about $2000 in tickets on this car not in my name. One day I get a frantic call from who'd you guess, the man who sold me the car who also miraculously learned perfect English.
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    Telling me he was getting calls from the city and begging me to not let them tow it (I think at this point he realized what I was doing), and that he would get me the title that week and that the
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    delay was because he and his wife were in a nasty divorce and she had the current title. I simply responded "what car?" And hung up on him. As I was leaving my
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    apartment I saw the cops there getting ready to load it on the tow truck and decided to let it go in case the former owner came looking for it. Ultimately I never got
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    my $800 back, but he got $2000 in tickets ($4000 if they went 30+ days unpaid), a $1000 tow bill, and if the story about his divorce was true, a suuuuper ex-wife because the car was still in her name
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    too(can't put a price on that). I never heard from him or the city about the car, my only regret was not driving it to an empty parking lot and leaving it in a handicapped spot,
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    but didn't wanna risk being seen on cameras. Hope you enjoyed!
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    FINE

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