[89 Trans Am WS6]

On weds the 3rd of november i had a kid come look at my car (the 89 ta) to see about purchasing it. He liked it after looking it over and test driving it and left me a 500 dollar check as deposit. I took it and banked it the next day. Two days later he came down (friday) with the rest of the payment and plates. I let him register it awhile because i knew the kid wasnt going anywhere with it. So he comes friday, gives me another check for 500, plus the rest in cash. He owed me $130.00 and said he would give it to his brother to give to me in school on monday. I said it wasnt a problem and i wasnt gonna hold up on the sale because of it. So we put on the plates and he takes it home. Drives away happy with a smile on his face..now fast forward to that sunday, the 7th. I get a call while im at work from him telling me we need to talk about something about the car. I say watever and he comes down to meet me with his brother at work. They try telling me that the car is stone dead after saturday morning and that it has a "major electrical problem". I told him that i never ever had any kind of trouble with the car and that it wasnt something i did or was wrong. First, they insisted to tell me about lemon laws, even after i told them that it only applied to new cars. THEN they told me that they put a stop payment on BOTH 500 dollar checks. This made me angry because they took control of the situation like that, keeping the car and the money! They tried telling me i had 3 options..

1.) take the car back, give back the money and say it never happened

my reply was no..i dont want back the car, because if i could have afforded it i would have kept both. and why would i want back a car that was running fine before you took it and now its "dead"?

option 2 they gave was ) you come fix it and then we give you the rest of the payment..i told them no i dont have time for it number one, secondly i dont know wtf is wrong with it, i go to school for automotive technology but im no master tech, and i really want nothing to do with going to their house to see the car

and finally the third option they tried to give me was "we keep the car for the money you hav in cash..

This annoyed the living **** out of me, that these people were actually trying to tell me the deal i made was shady..the whole time im thinking if i was shady about it, or normal rather.. i woudl have taken a whole payment in cash..but i was flexable..now their trying to **** me.

Then a few days later the kid calls me and tells me they have 48 hours to legally get out of a contract..a instructor at school confirmed that such a thing does exist..but we werent signing any contract..and that a title doesnt constitue one, its simply a transfer of ownership. The kid on the fone gets really mad saying things like "you wont win joe, you wont win in court" and things like that..telling me how ishoudl take a day off work to go fix this car of his..of HIS! Basicly i had to hang up with him that time because he wouldnt get off the phone, but before i did, and countless other times i gave him this rundown..and he doesnt want to hear it..


1.) you looked at a car,test drove it, liked it and left a deposit
2.) you had ample time to say you didnt want it and i would have given the deposit back no questions asked.
3.) you gave payment, signed the title in your name and took the car home.
4.) you come to me, telling me something is majorly wrong with it and stoppayment on my money!

I cant get this guy to see that in plain light..it makes me so angry.

i was happy for a few days because the people at the bank told us on thursday that both checks cleared and they were fine, and today i got a letter from the bank with the two checks saying they were stopped!!

My uncle told me that if they have the money it could be considered theft by deception and that in court and judge would easily see the same things i mentioned above and the case would be mine without a problem..

sorry if things are mispelled or butchered here, im just so angry and typing 405385838593 words a minute..

oh one more thing the kid is trying to tell me..he says that i never said the car was as-is..i told him every used car is sold as-is unless there is a warranty implied somehow..there was not..

not sure what im going to do but im going to get my money.

it makes me so unbeleiveably mad that someone would take ownership of the car, **** it up and then steal my money from me!

gonna call my uncle now and see what he suggests..hes been through this before..err..soo mad