Overhaulin'

Other than ebay, craigslist, or cars.com, how can I buy a car online and have it shipped to me?

So I am doing relief work overseas, and I want to buy a car from back home and have it shipped. I have never bought a car without inspecting it before, but have heard of people doing so. Please help!

Public Comments

1. My recommendation would be to buy a car locally. By the time you pay the shipping and import fees you could have bought a nice local vehicle that you could inspect and test drive.
2. Please go to your local embassy and ask them if is it permitted to buy and ship to you at your present location... getting a car shipped is not cheap and you are better off buying local where you can get parts and repair .. IF you insist to buy from '''back home''' -- then you gotta live with what is shipped to you and that includes the condition and running state. Good luck ..... you can get any car shipped to you --- USE a dealer that is on the internet and perhaps that you recognize or know the name ... you will have more taxes etc. than you want .... but if you get the car shipped without taxes and '''for overseas only''' you probably cannot bring the car back home ... all the above bears much thought on your part .......... IT really behooves you to buy local where you can inspect and know what you are getting..
3. You must remember ,if you get a car from back home ,you may not get the spares for it where you are ,also beside the cost of shipping it out ,you have to consider the cost of bringing it back if you cannot sell it where you are.I would imagine you would spend a lot of money on a decent car but throwing a lot away in the long term, do what the other two answers have advised , then when you have ended your relief work ,come back and buy a really nice car with the money you saved on the shipping costs.
4. There are car inspection companies around. Go to eBay Motors and get the name of the company they use. It costs about $99. But shipping a car overseas might cost a small fortune. Do a Google search on "overseas vehicle shipping."