Oct 01 2008
Curbstoners and Curbstoning Scams
Curbstoners is the term used for the car dealers who sell their cars on the street and pretend to be private sellers.
The practice of curbstoning is not legal. Curbstoning car dealers use the practice as a way to sell inferior cars to unsuspecting consumers. There is probably a street or parking area near your residence where there are numerous cars for sale. Most of these cars are sold by curbstoners (named because they are parking the cars along a curb). Often the curbstoned cars are lemon cars and dealers can’t sell them in the dealership.
Curbstoning is a god way for car dealers to avoid state laws regarding the sale of cars. If you are not a licensed car dealer there are certain limits on the number of cars that one is allowed to buy and sell in a given period. There are also state requirements that licensed car dealers have to meet to stay in business. Curbstoners do not have such requirements.
