Registration Cert for car not bought

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Sat 17 Feb 2007 16:42
Registration Cert for car not bought - Alisonh
three weeks ago I placed an order for a pre-registered vauxhall corsa with a local dealer, and paid a deposit of £100.00 - I said I would pay the balance for the car in about three weeks time. After further investigation I realised I had "bought" an old style Corsa and having since then seen the new corsa I wanted one of those, as another dealer was offering the new style corsa at £700 less that the dealer I had placed the deposit with I cancelled my order. The original dealer was not very happy, in fact they were very rude to me. However today I have received a registration certificate for the car on which I originally placed a deposit. The document states I acquired the vehicle on 31 01 2007 - please could somone give me some advice on this. Obviously I have not got the car and at no time signed the declaration stating I had bought the car so obviously the dealer has forged my signature.
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Sat 17 Feb 2007 19:36
Registration Certifcate for car not boug - T Lucas
Not surprised they were rude,you have messed them about.They may well take legal action to recover their costs/loss of profit.
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Sat 17 Feb 2007 19:41
Registration Certifcate for car not boug - Simon
I think they were a little pre-emptive in sorting out the V5 for a car you had only put a deposit on. As to what to do with it, I really don't have any idea of the best solution.
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Sat 17 Feb 2007 20:40
Registration Certifcate for car not boug - pmh
Just wait for the NIPs to start coming in! And parking tickets, congestion charging fines............

You must inform Swansea at the earliest opportunity.
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pmh (was peter)


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Sat 17 Feb 2007 22:43
Registration Certifcate for car not boug - kithmo
Send it back to DVLA with a letter explaining that you have not bought the car, nor signed to say you have.
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Sun 18 Feb 2007 08:04
Registration Certifcate for car not boug - Nickdm
You broke your contract with the garage, so you can certainly kiss goodbye to your deposit, which the garage has every right to retain, but I don't think they can come after you and force you to take the car and pay the balance?

More fool them if they've registered it to you already. Just make sure you tell the DVLA ASAP that you are NOT the registered owner/keeper. Then let the garage sort out the mess - of their own making.
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Sun 18 Feb 2007 10:15
Registration Certifcate for car not boug - daveyjp
Not surprised they were rude,you have messed them about.They may well
take legal action to recover their costs/loss of profit.


No need to be rude whatever the circumstances. They have had £100 which will cover their loss - pay for a couple more ads to promote the car, if their losses were more than this they should ask for more deposit. They would struggle to sue for loss of profit as the amount of this is unknown.
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Mon 19 Feb 2007 20:54
Registration Certifcate for car not boug - martint123
I would expect a fair sized bill from them. You ordered a car and they went through the motions of registering it in your name - at this time of year it can take some time. So for them to try to sell it now it will have an extra owner on it's log book.
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