How I Bought Millions of Dollars’ Worth of Luxury Cars and Got Blacklisted by Jaguar Land Rover, Mercedes, and Porsche
If you’ve spent more than a year in auto collections, repossessions or lending, you’ve doubtlessly encountered “straw buyers.” While most of these are of the “girlfriend signs for boyfriend” garden variety, there are the pros. Signing for luxury cars destined for China and earning fat commissions may sound exciting and lucrative, a 2018 Car and Driver article by confessed straw buyer Roy Ritchie, paints a very different picture.






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