Do We Have To Check Everyone's Work Now?

[Bailey Guns]

It's no secret I bought an RV about this time last year and used it as temporary housing during our move. Well, we no longer need it and have been looking to sell it. It's got a clean CO title (or so I thought). It's been a much tougher sell in this very small market as compared to somewhere like Denver so it's been on the market for a few months.

A potential buyer showed up Wed, spent an hour crawling around all over, on top, underneath, etc. He made me a low-ball offer and I declined. No big deal.

Thursday morning he called back, said the other, less expensive units he was looking at were not what he wanted, and made me a reasonable cash offer. I agreed. Friday morning we spent 2 and a half hours hooking it up and prepping it for moving from storage. Just as we were about to count money/sign title he asks me where the VIN is located on the trailer. So, I show him the tongue where the VIN is stamped. I then just check the number against the title. They don't match. The last two numbers are switched.

Son of a bitch. Obviously, we can't complete the sale.

So now I have to go through a major hassle to have this corrected. I know, I know...I should've checked it when I titled it in my name. But sometimes I just assume government workers can do their jobs without supervision. The number was correct on the title I got from the seller when I bought it...I checked. It was somehow entered incorrectly when I got the new title.

My buyer is in a time crunch and there's no way I'll have this corrected in time for him to complete the sale before he leaves the state.

I can only imagine what a time-consuming PITA this is gonna be trying to correct this from out of state.

Moral of the story... Check titles for correct information. Don't assume people can do their jobs without supervision.

[HoneyBadger]

[UncleDave]

Every time I have titled something in CO they have asked me to varafy the information before we completed the transaction. Out of those times at least 2 or three times something has been wrong. Typos happen.

[Planner]

Normally, they give you a draft to verify if information is correct before signing the title transfer/registration. Or they did anyway when i re-titled/registering my car in El Paso, and then Douglas Cty.

Humans are fallible. Frustrating yes, but the hassle soon to come is what helps prevent more autos theft in the state.


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[JohnTRourke]

competent government????

that's a joke right?

and it used to just be occasional mistakes. Now it's everywhere, in everything.

[KestrelBike]

That's frustrating as hell : (

[SideShow Bob]

I had the same thing happen to me several years back, except it was on a 1957 Chevy Pick up truck. The last 4 on the VIN were 2442 but the title said 2424. I had drove that truck for a few years & made improvements on it. I never noticed it until I went to sell it.
It was a small pain to get it corrected. But I had to go to the title's state DMV. Lucky for me that I hadn't moved out of that state yet.

I wish you good luck in getting this mess straightened out, especially if your RV has a CO. Title and you being in ID.

[Great-Kazoo]

The DMV used a different letter for my middle name. Wife goes to correct it. OOPS SORRY once it's done you need your spouse to come in and change it, sorry.
I would however... he's laying in the hospital at the moment.. Sorry not our problem. BUT.......you're the one who made the mistake .........NEXT

[Bailey Guns]

Normally, they give you a draft to verify if information is correct before signing the title transfer/registration. Or they did anyway when i re-titled/registering my car in El Paso, and then Douglas Cty.

Humans are fallible. Frustrating yes, but the hassle soon to come is what helps prevent more autos theft in the state.

Yes. After I surrendered the CO title signed by the seller, the clerk did the title and registration paperwork and asked me to verify the information. Everything was correct (obviously not the VIN) but I didn't have the 5th wheel there. I assumed the VIN would transfer in a computer from the old title to the new title. What was I supposed to do? Ask her to wait while I drove home and physically verified the VIN on the trailer?

And I know mistakes happen. I've almost made one myself on occasion.

It's just that some mistakes are more difficult to see initially and harder to correct when they're identified. And accountability seems to be a word that's no longer in use much.

[Zundfolge]

And just think, these people want to be able to do this with our guns. Where the penalty for wrong information on a "gun title" won't be inconvenience and a wasted afternoon at the DMV, it'll be jail time, and a felony conviction that eliminates your 2A rights forever.

And just think, these people want to be able to do this with our health care. Where the penalty for wrong information won't be inconvenience and a wasted afternoon at the DMV, it'll be failure to get proper treatment in a timely fashion possibly ending in permanent disfigurement or at worst an unpleasant death.