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lmao hope he got to keep it

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How do you accidentally buy a car? This sounds like something my grandpa would do, except it wouldn’t be on accident, that would just be his excuse to my grandma.

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I don’t usually call bs on posts, but I call bs on this one. That’s like saying “he accidentally bought a house while just playing a game on my phone” - it’s a little more complicated than just swiping right, there’s a lot of paperwork involved.

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I'd honestly believe it. If the person had their credit card info auto filled or something (don't ask me I'm 13) a kid would have just seen the paperwork as a fun game or quiz type thing. There's also a chance that the kid was trying to play a prank and didn't realize how bad it was until the parents freaked out, then said it was an accident because what else are you gonna do he bought a car

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This is my argument: Most dealerships and online car shopping services won’t let you buy a whole vehicle with a credit card (a small down payment is often accepted though). You can’t even buy a car online at most dealerships’ websites, you have to go in or contact them. If an accidental down payment of some sort is what the kid accidentally did, then the purchase was a financing situation, and to actually buy the car they’d need to give up their social security number and permission to pull their credit as well as give the finance guy all the info needed for the banks, like income etc, and sign paperwork. Plus, most new vehicles average around $48,000 USD - not many new parents have that kind of room on a credit card. If this kid actually bypassed all the odds and somehow did purchase a car by randomly swiping things on a phone screen, that would be astronomically unlucky for the parents and I’d be very impressed! And it would probably be a bigger story than this with tons of safety measures set into motion to stop kids doing this in the future. Therefore, I rest my case, your honour👨‍⚖️ (Sorry I work in dealerships and I’m a nerd haha)

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My parents often exaggerated my childhood antics to make them sound cuter so maybe the kid just got really far into some kind of car buying application, and the parents caught him like “oh no he’s buying a car lol” and just exaggerated it too? Or maybe the sibling just misunderstood the story. Seems more likely to me :) no idea why I’ve put so much thought into this tbh

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Online commercial car buying you tend to make a deposit and then they bring you the car and the paperwork.

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“Accidentally”

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How do you accidentally buy a car????

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*Scratches head* I don't remember ordering this. The younger brother laughs

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...Was it a nice car?

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wh- wha- HOW!?

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