This was over 5 years ago. I had some car issues with my daily driver. Found a dealership willing to purchase and vehicle was delivered.
Payment setup to be received by me electronically. Didn’t get paid as promised but not surprised. Called and they issued me a check instead. Deposited the check. Ended up also receiving electronic payment. So I got paid twice over $10,000 each time.
Held the money in the account for 2 year period for normal civil disputes. Never heard anything. I thought they would figure it out within a few months. Never going back there again because I still wouldn’t want it discovered.
If I have to harass you to get paid then I’m keeping the money for my time and effort.
Edit: dealership owned by public corporation. I did what I promised but they were not honest and didn’t pay on time.
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Damn what a gift
I approve. You held it for 2 years and it’s on them if their accountant sucks. If it were an individual, that would be shitty, but a dealership that clearly didn’t need the money? 👍🏻
Tbh I would’ve did the same ngl. What you end up doing with the extra money?
Dishonest not to contact them.
> harass
Whoever was in the office worked the deal, missed the initial payment, closed the deal, filled it along with hundreds or thousand of others in some file room. They’ll never figure it out unless they have their auditors come in some day.
You are straight out dishonest, enjoy your life
Depends on the dealership but most used car sales systems are exploiting ppl dramatically , if it’s one of those I say do it again 🤣🤣
Plot twist: The accountant is cooking books to embezzle funds and correcting overpayment to you would have jeopardized their own stolen funds.
They wrote it off or buried the loss on another deal, who cares, you made out in the end.
Dealerships aren’t your friend.
Maybe they thought the vehicle was worth 20,000 instead of 10,000. They’re the ones in the car biz, so we can trust they had their reasons.
it doesn’t take that much effort to be a thief.
It’s still theft. Anyway you slice it. Ever hear of honesty and morality?
This has happened to me twice.
Once It was a $500 deposit. It was supposed to be wired back, I never got it, dealership issued a check for the amount and then I later received the $500 wire. I only left the money in til tax season the next year. I figured they’d track it down by then, but no one ever reached out to me. Not sure where the accounting department thought that money went.
The second time it happened was a life insurance policy my mom had on herself prior to her death. The insurance company never bothered to find us or maybe the person in charge never responded, so the money sat and never got sent to unclaimed funds. I went to retrieve it from the insurance company, jumping through a ton of hoops, including our contact leaving and having to go to court, etc and finally the funds were released. Two years later, these funds were then released to my states unclaimed funds and I claimed that. It’s likely that this giant insurer just never documented the payout correctly because the contact left and their account sucks and thus issued payment twice.
Nice! Well played!
Interesting how many people think felonious theft is cool because they don’t like the job of the victim.
I’d say there were other errors in their books, bigger than yours…
Someone in accounting is stealing
But you never contacted them to tell them this happened?
Quick question, how does this work tax wise? Do you have to declare the 10k or the 20k? Or just dont declare it at all?
The mental hurdles to justify being a shitty person is insane.
I could not imagine that. I feel like karma would find a way to suck back the funds 3 fold.
Good for you,!! I m sure they fucked over there share of people
Isn’t this like a 3-5 year thing?
What dealership was this because I was missing 10k that they said they wired to me.
With the amount of money they might have made 5 years ago until now.. they might not even miss it lol
Why are you keeping money that you know doesn’t belong to you?
Nice
Lookit all the people judging, but almost all of them wouldve done the same.
Yup they all just mad it wasn’t them who got 10k. Pathetic
Wouldn’t there be like a four year statute of limitations on when they can claw back this money or at least attempt to? I would’ve waited a while before I thought I was out of the woods.
We’ve been looking for you mf… See you in court!
Hopefully you put it in an interest bearing account at least, or CDs. $10k in high yield CDs flipped every six months compounded might have boosted that gift a bit higher.
Disclaimer I am Not a LAWYER up to you take my advice or not.
Don’t use it till “statute of limitations” is done for the city state or province or laws if your country have.
But lock it into a high interest earning account and enjoy the fruits of it.
This way you benefit and if something does happen while waiting status of limitation you can wait out period to give it back to rightful
Legal owner. Still getting benefits from holding it.
r/titlegore
Funny how this thread has turned into a fuck the dealership/ mechanic discussion when it should be a discussion about morales/ karma. OP is just trying to make himself feel better about being a thief, even being the dealership’s mistake he has kept money that doesn’t belong to him and hopefully by some miracle the dealership has a employee who just happens to stumble upon this thread and realizes where the 10k mistake came from. Either way the karma gods will get you.
Anything to justify your decision. Just hope it doesn’t get too much free rent in your head for years to come.
Too bad you didn’t put it in a high yield savings or CD. Could you imagine a 4.1 or even a 4.5 interest compounded monthly could do for you? Even if you did have to give it back eventually the interest would have been free money.
Wait say that last part again…just like that…
Thank you for being honest.
A dealership that makes customers beg for payment they’re owed has earned whatever inconvenience their own error causes them.
If you make amends, one honest sentence is a good place to start.
Honesty makes for a brighter future.
If they ever realized they sent it to you, you know they decided it was not worth thr stress.
You think most accountants in a dealership want to call a customer a year later and demand $10k? They probably got into accounting to not have to talk with customers at all, let alone debt collection. Thats a cost of doing business and was pulled from some general fund accountant to balance.
People here are justifying the bad action. If they are not aware of this, then you should inform them and return them. If they have done bad to you, please don’t do bad with yourself by keeping the money which never belongs to you
You have a very high $/per/hour.
The thing about ethics is they dont rely on others.