I recently bought a 32 in Japan and was told that my loan money would be ready in two days to be wired over. after two days I called up and asked the bank and they said that it wasnt ready and that they would call back the next day. After no call, I called them and they said that it still wasnt ready. After TWO weeks of telling me that its still not ready but its coming, I go down and they tell me that theyve lost my contracts. I asked what theyve been doing for the past two weeks and they say looking for the lost contracts. so they could have told me that they lost them and I could have resigned them and it would be ok but they lied about it. Now for people who havent borrowed from a bank, you have to sign contracts and get a lawyer to witness it, which isnt cheap. a mate of mine who is also borrowing was quoted $250 by a lawyer to be a witness. luckily for me our family lawyer didnt charge us anything, but the next person might have to fork out more cash. during this period, im getting emails saying that the buyer is waiting for his money and that the car wont move until he gets it. finally the money arrives and he books a time for shipping. meanwhile i get my import approval and it says that the plate has to be on the vehicle by 12 midnight 7th may. this freaks me out cause when i did the numbers in my head, my car wasnt going to make it in time, so i get onto the importer. after i bought the car i forked out another 1000 yen to have it moved to a container shipping yard, and it turned out that the next available container ship wont arrive here until april 30, too late to do compliance etc. so its now coming by car carrying ship, which is more prone to getting things stolen and i cant get insurance if it sinks. plus the 1000 yen to move it is down the drain. all this happened because National Australia Bank is too incompetant to not loose a piece of paper, and then covered up their stupidity with lies and deception. On top of this when i first applied for the loan they gave me the wrong forms and we had to do that twice as well. how stupid can you be? these people are payed to help people apply for loans and they cant even do that properly!
A big thanks goes out to Geoff Risbey at Prestige Motorsport for helping me out and being understanding. Top bloke and I highly recomend him
After all this, at least my car is going to get here, and thats all that really matters.