how do you buy a car?

Who here has bought cars long distance without seeing them in person? Would you fly from east to west to look at a 20k car? One country to the next?

Your looking at a loss of aprox. 10% of the value by the time you factor in the cost of going to view the car. That 20k (high end price to start) is now 22k (including the 500.00 non-refundable, lol). To insist a buyer shows up in person (whoever posted the n-r deposit) is really the icing on the cake. I don't think I'd get past the first phone call with you.

You can have it looked at by some very knowledgeable people if you are serious, but the seller has to be thinking outside the box. This is an new age of buying and selling that is still in it's infancy for most part. Sometimes it's better to have a 3rd party opinion then losing time and money that you can never get back on a car that will not appreciate in value like some others may.