Dave Ramkumar as a financial planner: "so you just won 1.5 mil from the lottery sure go ahead and buy the 1.2 mil car, you can afford it."

 

 

nice. I almost missed it

 

nvm. read/skimmed through most of the thread.

sorry, OP, about the situation. hope you're able to get your money back.

i also hope you learned a lesson from this ordeal.

it's not our place to say you should/shouldn't buy or what you can/can't afford. it sounds like you're doing quite well for yourself at your age.

however, there is a lot of good advice in this thread and other threads you've started regarding business ventures and so forth.
i would recommend taking up on those.

 

^thanks

 

I only have two smilies for this thread:

Kids.

Kids giving other kids advice.

 

omg that's messed up Synth, but

 

I can only sympathize for so long... then I resort to chopping.

 

How was the money sent?

 

wire transfer.

 

it was wired......

 

Zafar Hussain has it

 

OP, hope you are not on some terror watch list now.

 

lol i guess you didnt read the above post, hes out of the office until 12.

 

he just helped fund a car bombing in iran.

 

Most of the people giving advice (minus a couple) are around your age ...

 

candidate for thread of the year?

 

I'm riiiiich biiiiiiitch!

 

Even at 20 years old you should know better than to buy a car on Ebay without even seeing it in person first. It appears you're still waiting on this ghost BMW. In all honesty I hope the car shows up or Ebay helps you get your money back but either way this was a lesson learned...

 

Nah, nowhere near as good as the PCH thread

 

He did not pay thru eBay, so he is therefore not covered under their buyer protection policy. It says to NEVER pay by wire transfer

 

I was and got suspicious a few days ago about the "purchase" at post #23. I didn't want to post to rain on OP's parade if things were OK, though.
Unfortunately, OP's posts thereafter only confirmed a messy situation-- like those which arose in several of his other threads.

OP dave-- you need to run stuff by somebody with experience and common sense (parent, family member??) before impulsively making decisions and taking actions that affect you financially. G/L.

 

is that the i'm rich, bitch! thread?

 

yes^^

 

another word of advice never start a thread saying "my new car" until you physically have the car.

 

Link, or it never happened!

 

Happy reading

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...&highlight=pch

 

That's who I'm referring to.

 

*raises hand!* Hi Cochese!

 

Time for a move to Ramblings?

 

i literally lol'd

i dont understand how you could wire 1500 dollars to the "original owner" of the car. what does he have to do with your purchase!

did you use western union?

 

I don't understand people today.. I drove my CL to the ground and leased a TSX and saved up alot of money so I can buy my 1st home (townhouse) before I turned 30..
Would it not make more sense in putting that money toward a peice of property now that the market and rates are down?? Or is it just me?? I could have took the money I saved and bought a brand new M# cash or maybee a slightly used M5 BUt i would rather be triving a TSX AND going home to my own home then driving a M3/M5 and going home to mommys basement!

 

That ship has sailed. He apparently has enough to pay for the M3 entirely in cash. I think he should take the $1500 loss and consider himself lucky.

 

Did he call you back yet? Have you called him? What excuse were you told this time?
I would be all over this if I were you!

 

I don't think "he" ever got back into his "office". Besides, what's $1500 when you have more than enough cash in the bank to buy an M3 outright?

 

Let us know after you give him another call OP

lesson learned. that's how we live life ... of course others do so off of much smaller mistakes BUT NONETHELESS LESSON LEARNED! Live frugally my friend ...

 

+1 man... My wife and I bought our house last year when everything was super low, put down a very sizable down payment that we've been saving for 8 years now, both have good jobs. When I think about what we could have done with that, we could have both got our own loaded M5's, but we'd have to park them on the street in our crappy rental.

No thanks, housing is slightly flat and moving up slowly in my area, in 5 years I'll have hopefully the same equity instead of two cars worth 1/2 what I paid.

But at 20, don't buy a house, you've got the rest of your life for that. If you're sitting on 50k in cash, you need to find a financial adviser and put that to work... Had you put that into the market around the march lows last year, you'd probably have at least double that now, probably much more.

As others have said, get that money to work for you by a professional.

 

Fuck the house at 20, get an education. Just saying.

 

+10000000

Hell, @ almost 30 I'm going back to school for my MBA because I know it's the only way I can break thru my current career into something bigger and hence more $$.

Spend like 20k on college, that's worth hundreds of thousands over the course of your life.