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Filed in National by on August 2, 2009

Is their anything preventing from buying a POS car for $500 privately and then driving the car to a dealership to get my $3500 off a new car?

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  1. anon says:
    August 2, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    Yes. I found the answer after 30 seconds on cars.gov.

    You should bring documentation establishing the identity of the person who currently owns the vehicle, preferably the title of the vehicle, and documentary proof that the vehicle “has been continuously insured consistent with the applicable State law and registered to the same owner for a period of not less than 1 year immediately prior to the trade-in.” The final rule will specify what types of documentation would be acceptable.

  2. anon2 says:
    August 2, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    This is one of the better programs. It works and should be expanded. A great way to get the polluters off the highways, and sell more cars, putting people to work.

  3. Prufe says:
    August 2, 2009 at 6:05 pm

    Well, at least we now know how much Donviti actually pays attention to things….explains a lot!

  4. Delaware's Coolest Blogger says:
    August 2, 2009 at 6:16 pm

    anon and Prufe (or whoever you are being today I should say),

    no shit I can google too. this is a blog though and we get to comment on it. So it is sort of a way to get talking about the program jackass.

  5. Delaware Dem says:
    August 2, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    Yeah, my secretary tried to do it with a car she bought used for her teenage son and which had a busted radiator, but she had only owned the car for less than a year

  6. nemski teh awesome says:
    August 2, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    DD, you have a secretary? How elitist of you. 😉

  7. Joanne Christian says:
    August 2, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    Why should it make a difference, if it’s getting cars off the lot?

  8. Prolechariot says:
    August 2, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    “So it is sort of a way to get talking about the program jackass.”

    My mistake….I was talking about the RESIDENT jackass.

  9. Delaware's Coolest Blogger says:
    August 2, 2009 at 7:48 pm

    resident?

  10. Delaware's Coolest Blogger says:
    August 2, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    JC,

    I was thinking the same thing.

  11. Prolechariot says:
    August 2, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    And now we know how verbally nimble DV is….not.

  12. farsider says:
    August 2, 2009 at 7:56 pm

    Another outrageous giveaway. Just handing our tax money to foreign car companyies, just shameful.

  13. Unstable Isotope says:
    August 2, 2009 at 8:05 pm

    It’s popular and it works. Obviously, Republicans hate it.

  14. John Young says:
    August 2, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    cars.gov?

    I want to see how much money we, as a nation, are spending on domain names?

  15. farsider says:
    August 2, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    Giving other peoples money away never goes out of style.

  16. cassandra_m says:
    August 2, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    Well certainly George Bush was fond of it and most folks didn’t get a car out of it.

  17. farsider says:
    August 2, 2009 at 8:36 pm

    He never should have done it, that was the beginning of the end. It seems everyone got big screen tvs with that one.

  18. cassandra_m says:
    August 2, 2009 at 8:43 pm

    People got big screen tvs with the easy credit they got — not with money from the government.

  19. Art Downs says:
    August 2, 2009 at 9:01 pm

    I plan to make a ‘zip gun’ the next time there is a ‘buy back’ program where cash is given and no questions are asked. I will make another one for my wife and we can use the money towards getting something better.

    Why not take advantage of fools with money to waste?

  20. farsider says:
    August 3, 2009 at 12:01 am

    There were plenty of big screens bought with the 1st stimulus package. Now it is cars, next it’ll be houses. I cannot wait until the inevitable government yacht handout.

  21. anoni says:
    August 3, 2009 at 12:43 am

    you don’t have $500

  22. Art Downs says:
    August 3, 2009 at 6:26 am

    Buying an imported big screen TV may provide some cash for the retailer but most of the money is going offshore.

    Using it to pay off some bills could save a little bit in interest charges but the rates will escalate as banks figure out how to keep gouging.

    How much of the handout will be invested in something that will create jobs?

    There may be a downside to tax and inflate.

    We do not have the brightest and best in Washington and things are getting even worse.

    How many of our elected officials ever had a real job in private industry?

  23. Delaware's Coolest Blogger says:
    August 3, 2009 at 7:29 am

    Art,

    George Bush ran 2 oil companies into Bankruptcy don’t forget.

  24. anon says:
    August 3, 2009 at 8:23 am

    How many of our elected officials ever had a real job in private industry?

    How many Republicans have studied economics beyond “How much can I skim out of the cash register today?”

  25. mike w. says:
    August 3, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    Apparently liberals have no grasp of economics either, since they ran out of funding for this free handout program in ONE WEEK.

  26. cassandra_m says:
    August 3, 2009 at 5:53 pm

    So this is the talking point of the day, right? For a program that was expected to run until November or so — it is somehow a problem that it was more popular that predicted? That this program helped to sell 200-225K cars in a week?

    How stupid can you people be? No — don’t answer that.

  27. farsider says:
    August 3, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    Just another handout, to the car companies and this time spreading a little more tax money around to the states. Can’t keep leaving them away from the trough, too many of them are going broke.

  28. farsider says:
    August 3, 2009 at 10:20 pm

    Lots of things that are just wrong have been very popular I am sure that you would agree.

  29. Yeeehaw! says:
    August 3, 2009 at 11:11 pm

    Everytime I look at the backass of a Hyundai, I’ll know that I own a little piece of it….so hopefully they won’t mind when I plow into it with my thunderin’ SUV!!!

  30. xstryker says:
    August 4, 2009 at 6:10 am

    Buying an imported big screen TV may provide some cash for the retailer but most of the money is going offshore.

    Using it to pay off some bills could save a little bit in interest charges but the rates will escalate as banks figure out how to keep gouging.

    – Art downs, on the limited value of tax cuts.

  31. Art Downs says:
    August 4, 2009 at 6:39 am

    Tax cuts put money in the hands of citizens and allow them to make their own decisions.

    Building a bigger government may create a lot of patronage in the traditional and virtual sense but it also takes freedom away from people as Big Brother dictates how you will live your life.

    Bureaucrats will dictate your diet, where you live, and what you drive.

    Orwell said it all. The time may well be off.

    Some of the admirers of the politics of envy may see a wonderful egalitarian tomorrow but while the misery will be spread over a broader group, the elite will still live like kings.

    They will become our New Nomenklatura.

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