Megatone:
The truth about tokunbo cars

The last two days has been a tug of war on my page https://www.nairaland.com/4296235/toyota-highlander-2009-tokunbo-accident , regarding a tokunbo toyota highlander. A NL member brought to my notice that the vehicle had a savage title which honestly i knew nothing about it. I didn't have any problem with it and i apologised about it and took full responsibility of my actions, i also recalled the advert. But no some NL members refused to accept my apologises and insisted that they would tarnish my image.

The truth is most of the tokunbo cars you see for sale 70% - 80% are accidented or salvage title. Some have minor while some major. The reason being that most of this cars are cheaper than cars with clean title. Lets take for instance, you buy a toyota camry XLE 2011 with a salvage title for $6000 and you spend additional $1500 to put it in perfect condition, totalling $7500. Then compare it with the same year and model with clean title for $10000 from toyota dealership. When you now import both of them and you post the clean title for 4.5M they start commenting that your greedy, scam and all sorts. While the one with salvage title would cost 3M and they would rush it.

Most car dealers go through a lot in this business and yet some mentally unstable peeps would be talking trash. These are people that might never have bought a car of their own, all they do from morning to night is to troll people and spam their treads. I was called all sought for the mistake i made.

But please if i may ask, does it mean cars with salvage titles and properly fixed cannot be driven, how many people can afford to buy a car from dealership?.

Once again i sincerely apologise for any wrong doing. I accept full responsibility even though my client misled me.

Advice: If your interested in any car of your choice, please request for VIN code. Please avoid flooded cars, they are worst to buy.

Have a great day.

Ipfreely:
This dude though. You clearly do not want to have a future in sales on this forum. You've somehow managed to entirely and completely miss the point multiple posters attempted to put across to you.
I'll attempt once more to explain what that backlash on your post was originally about.

https://www.nairaland.com/4182860/sold-2011-honda-crv-73000miles

Take a look at this post, and if you still don't understand due diligence and full disclosure, then something's wrong.

Megatone:




I get your point clearly. The difference is gazuuz has all d details of d vehicle. He might have been the direct importer and so have the full information. In my case i have clients who seek assistance to help sell their vehicles. Alot of car dealers in this forum can relate with it. For instance your neighbour imports a car and the car is clean and you ask questions and he says its accident free, would you start arguing with the person?. Most of these cars are packaged abroad before shipping.

You are making it sound like it was intentional. I was surprised when i saw ur post honestly

Bro, that's why due diligence is being insisted upon....

Your neighbour asks you to help sell a car.

You ask for the vin, you run the VIN to get more information before you post it here.

Instead of just posting cos it looks clean

LeJeun3:




Bro, that's why due diligence is being insisted upon....

Your neighbour asks you to help sell a car.

You ask for the vin, you run the VIN to get more information before you post it here.

Instead of just posting cos it looks clean

Megatone:




I get your point clearly. The difference is gazuuz has all d details of d vehicle. He might have been the direct importer and so have the full information. In my case i have clients who seek assistance to help sell their vehicles. Alot of car dealers in this forum can relate with it. For instance your neighbour imports a car and the car is clean and you ask questions and he says its accident free, would you start arguing with the person?. Most of these cars are packaged abroad before shipping.

You are making it sound like it was intentional. I was surprised when i saw ur post honestly

banky3w:
Nanotone Megatone, you really need to understand the phrase full disclosure...... Until you do, you'll keep repeating the same thing you're saying and expect a different result.

Megatone:



Understood Loud and Clear.......

Lesson learnt

Megatone:




I get your point clearly. The difference is gazuuz has all d details of d vehicle. He might have been the direct importer and so have the full information. In my case i have clients who seek assistance to help sell their vehicles. Alot of car dealers in this forum can relate with it. For instance your neighbour imports a car and the car is clean and you ask questions and he says its accident free, would you start arguing with the person?. Most of these cars are packaged abroad before shipping.

You are making it sound like it was intentional. I was surprised when i saw ur post honestly

calculusx:


* Bros. Learn your lesson and move on. Whenever anybody give you a Car to sell, ask for pre-purchase pictures or google vin the Car for the Pictures to actually know the state of what you are advertising. I have some Cars in my lot brought by friends which I will NEVER advertise or NL or put up for sale on other websites because they don't meet my standard. Try and do your due diligence before you advertise such Cars.