A family’s frustrating, hours-long drive to clear a car title issue has shed light on a common, and often illegal, practice in the used-car market: title skipping by independent flippers posing as a legitimate car dealership.
The situation came to light through a Reddit post in which the original vehicle owner described how a family was misdirected to his home after being unable to obtain a lien release needed to title a vehicle they had recently purchased. The family believed they had bought the car from a New Jersey dealership. That, the seller later learned, was not the case.
