I need some advice. I purchased a vehicle from a dealer in La Vega. Auto Mayella. I gave a down payment and wired the rest of the money within 2 weeks. I am currently driving the car. I am getting conflicting information from the dealership. My dominican friend stopped by the dealership for me a few times. I had him do that since he lives in La Vega. He was there checking on my title,bill of sale and insurance papers.
His last visit they told him I needed to pay 24000 pesos more to have the title transferred in my name. And then wait 15 more days to get the title in my name. Then I had somebody else call the dealership and the rep says they gave that information to my La Vega friend in error. They supposedly realized after my buddy left the dealership that my vehicle was imported by the previous owner. Now Im told I can get the bill of sale papers, the insurance policy, and maybe the previous owners title. Which should be signed over to the dealership?
But I wont be able to get the title transferred in my name until 3 yrs has elasped of the car being here in the DR. I dont know if that applies only to the previous owner or me? Or a combination of me and the previous owner having the car here for a combined total of 3 yrs? So it looks like I am stuck not having a title in my name for a car I paid for in full. Does any of this make sense or sound familiar? Is anyone here reading this who has gone through something like this? My previous car buying experience in the US is, once I paid for a car, the title was released to me, and then I went to motor vehicles to transfer the title or the dealership did it for me.
It just floors me that the dealership ( Auto Mayella ) did not inform me about the conditions I would face having to get the title for this vehicle that I purchased. In addition with all of this incompetency running rampant within this dealership, I would have wired the 24000 pesos for nothing. Im sure they would have made up some excuse that I needed to pay that. Now my understanding is, I do not have to pay that 24000 pesos. Now it seems my cost for a title transfer will be apparent when I am legally able to transfer the title in my name.
At this point, I dont know when that is? Sounds like I may need an attorney to intervene, and should have had one before I purchased the vehicle. I didnt think this would be an issue with a so called reputable dealership, nor that the dealer would give me a problem since I was accompanied by my friend that knows him. However, the dealer is not who I am dealing with directly. Now, it's the finance and documentation departments at the dealership handling matters.
His last visit they told him I needed to pay 24000 pesos more to have the title transferred in my name. And then wait 15 more days to get the title in my name. Then I had somebody else call the dealership and the rep says they gave that information to my La Vega friend in error. They supposedly realized after my buddy left the dealership that my vehicle was imported by the previous owner. Now Im told I can get the bill of sale papers, the insurance policy, and maybe the previous owners title. Which should be signed over to the dealership?
But I wont be able to get the title transferred in my name until 3 yrs has elasped of the car being here in the DR. I dont know if that applies only to the previous owner or me? Or a combination of me and the previous owner having the car here for a combined total of 3 yrs? So it looks like I am stuck not having a title in my name for a car I paid for in full. Does any of this make sense or sound familiar? Is anyone here reading this who has gone through something like this? My previous car buying experience in the US is, once I paid for a car, the title was released to me, and then I went to motor vehicles to transfer the title or the dealership did it for me.
It just floors me that the dealership ( Auto Mayella ) did not inform me about the conditions I would face having to get the title for this vehicle that I purchased. In addition with all of this incompetency running rampant within this dealership, I would have wired the 24000 pesos for nothing. Im sure they would have made up some excuse that I needed to pay that. Now my understanding is, I do not have to pay that 24000 pesos. Now it seems my cost for a title transfer will be apparent when I am legally able to transfer the title in my name.
At this point, I dont know when that is? Sounds like I may need an attorney to intervene, and should have had one before I purchased the vehicle. I didnt think this would be an issue with a so called reputable dealership, nor that the dealer would give me a problem since I was accompanied by my friend that knows him. However, the dealer is not who I am dealing with directly. Now, it's the finance and documentation departments at the dealership handling matters.