"Leftie" <No@Thanks.net> wrote in message
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> honda.lioness@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Apr 9, 5:16 pm, Leftie <N...@Thanks.net> wrote:
>>> I got a refund from Carfax when I bought my '95 Civic EX. It was
>>> listed as one owner when it fact I was buying it from the third owner.
>>> They snidely asked me if I didn't think the report was worth *anything*
>>> and I replied that since I couldn't trust the info, no. So they refunded
>>> my fee.
>>
>> How did you find out it had had three owners before you?
>>
>> I hear autocheck.com is better than carfax.com
>
>
> The guy I bought it from had bought it from his uncle three years
> earlier. Same last name, different first. The owner's manual had the name
> of a third person written in it, and the kid (a college student moving
> back out West - I got a good deal because it was a risky sale
> but the car was rust-free and under book, with a new clutch and
> transmission) confirmed that his uncle had bought it slightly used. So
> Carfax had no excuse for calling it a "One Owner!" car.

The question is - how carfax can know if you buy a car from family
relative and do not change the plates or pay taxes?? People often
avoid doing paperwork to save themselves the money related to
the name flip. So if he did not re-register the car after the transaction
within the family, carfax was not wrong saying 1-owner.

The owner's manual in my car has a third party name in it, because
I have lost the original one and purchased my replacement from eBay.
The memory of this college student can be fuzzy after many years,
or he simply did not know the truth. I would not rely on such statement.

Your "proofs" are not convincing to me that carfax was wrong in this case.
And it was dishonest to ask for the fee back after you checked dozens
of cars using your 30-days access to the site... Bad, bad girl, Leftie ;-)