webguydave
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Hi All!
Bought a nice 2004 R1150RT-P from a fellow in West Virginia last week; title looks good, is signed by the seller and the license tags are good for about a year. So, living in Virginia, normally I’d run right down and retitle/register it pronto. But with the virus, an appointment is required, which in my case is July 25th!
So far so good…except the seller pm’s me to ask me to mail the plate back to him; failing that, he’ll report it as lost/stolen. He claims it’s to protect him from liability…
This sounds kinda bogus, like maybe the plate belongs to another bike of his, esp since I didn’t get a paper registration with the bike.
So…if I mail the plate back, I have no plate on the bike and therefor can’t ride it. If I don’t, he claims the plate is lost/stolen and I’m liable to get stopped for riding a stolen bike!
I’ve never kept plates on any vehicle I’ve sold, nor had this kind of request….
Comments? Is this indeed a West Virginia thing?
Bought a nice 2004 R1150RT-P from a fellow in West Virginia last week; title looks good, is signed by the seller and the license tags are good for about a year. So, living in Virginia, normally I’d run right down and retitle/register it pronto. But with the virus, an appointment is required, which in my case is July 25th!
So far so good…except the seller pm’s me to ask me to mail the plate back to him; failing that, he’ll report it as lost/stolen. He claims it’s to protect him from liability…
This sounds kinda bogus, like maybe the plate belongs to another bike of his, esp since I didn’t get a paper registration with the bike.
So…if I mail the plate back, I have no plate on the bike and therefor can’t ride it. If I don’t, he claims the plate is lost/stolen and I’m liable to get stopped for riding a stolen bike!
I’ve never kept plates on any vehicle I’ve sold, nor had this kind of request….
Comments? Is this indeed a West Virginia thing?