I am selling a car. A person who is interested sent me email requesting its VIN #.
I am concerned that he wants me to disclose this private personal information. Is it safe to do it?
Any experienced advice please?
I am selling a car. A person who is interested sent me email requesting its VIN #.
I am concerned that he wants me to disclose this private personal information. Is it safe to do it?
Any experienced advice please?
Thank you all!
AMOF I am not a seller but a buyer
Doesnt this contradict your opening sentence? I havent had a liquid lunch, of that I am sure!:cheeky:
the seller (a nice woman from Santiago) refuses to give me the VIN being afraid of something ,
She's probably afraid that you may run a carfax investigation on her car... irate:
Concentrate on the woman, drop the car .... :cheeky:
donP
thanks jr... you have beaten me to the exact same question... lol
now... out of curiosity... what's the use of a vin-number??? Say, it has been in an accident, and an number of parts of the chassis were replaced?
not being obnoxious, but planning on buying a car next month, and, I knew about the carfax... but not about the vin
CarFax is only useful for cars that are coming from the USA.
that have their accident information actually entered into a database. Carfax developed here in the U.S. by perusing state DMV and insurance company databases.
Rental fleets are self insured, thus when their vehicles are in an accident, they either fix it themselves, sell it outright, or send it to an auction...either way a record of the type and severity of any accident may not exist....and a Carfax would come back with only registration data.
Respectfully,
Playacaribe2
Still better SOME data than nothing ...