First time buying a car down under so hope this doesn't sound too n00bie.
Sales guy said to put a deposit down for the car to reserve it first. Sounds reasonable to me seeing as I won't be in Australia till first Monday of July and these driveaway promos would be over by then.
Except I am still overseas and have no account activated in Australia yet. So I'm offered a chance to put it on my credit card.
Again. Still sounds reasonable to me.
Later the agent says his computer has locked up and sends me the sales contract (filled) but unsigned to me via his personal email account, ie non company address.
So is it normal to give out credit card number over the phone for the deposit? Even if I did a bank transfer, there's no way to know if the account number is a personal one or not, is there?
Sorry if this is a bit naive. A part of me tells me to be a bit wary. But then again, never having bought a car in Australia, I am not sure of proper protocols.
In the UK, I walked in with a cheque and the agent walked me through the fine print. In Singapore, they made me sign a couple of empty forms!! Which I can tell you is even scarier but it turned out when I asked around, was quite common.
Sales guy said to put a deposit down for the car to reserve it first. Sounds reasonable to me seeing as I won't be in Australia till first Monday of July and these driveaway promos would be over by then.
Except I am still overseas and have no account activated in Australia yet. So I'm offered a chance to put it on my credit card.
Again. Still sounds reasonable to me.
Later the agent says his computer has locked up and sends me the sales contract (filled) but unsigned to me via his personal email account, ie non company address.
So is it normal to give out credit card number over the phone for the deposit? Even if I did a bank transfer, there's no way to know if the account number is a personal one or not, is there?
Sorry if this is a bit naive. A part of me tells me to be a bit wary. But then again, never having bought a car in Australia, I am not sure of proper protocols.
In the UK, I walked in with a cheque and the agent walked me through the fine print. In Singapore, they made me sign a couple of empty forms!! Which I can tell you is even scarier but it turned out when I asked around, was quite common.
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