Have you had a member look at a car on your behalf?

abodyjoe,

I agree with your statement. I would never buy a car based upon someone else's assessment sight unseen. I am talking about using that 3rd party to basically certify the claims of the selling owner without having to fly or drive to see it initially. I also concur that sometimes it takes a trained eye and other descrepancies you can see from a mile away even in blurry bad pics some sellers post with.

clhyer,

You make a valid point that if the person inspected was interested in buying that chances are they would have seen the ad as well. I actually never really gave that much thought.