It's been awhile but I used to drive a LOT of Mazdas back in the repo days and if my feeble memory doth recall, didn't they say 'swing' or was that only the southern California market?

 

back in the repo days? Did you repo cars?

 

For fifteen years...


Yay.


It was a job.

 

haha, I did too. but for more like 6 months. Then our boss had a falling out with this guy and that guy and we lost the tow, so I just said ---- it and quit.

 

Smartest thing you've ever done...

 

Repo work sounds like one of those jobs that I would NOT have the patience for.

 

Wait, do you mean your tow was repo'd? That reminds me of a customer we had whom was in the collections business, we had to send them to collections . I guess they weren't good at what they did.

 

Dude I can't tell you how many repo trucks I picked up, my favorites were catering trucks/taco wagons.

Load time, three thirty am.

Picked up @ four am.

Because that's what the guarantor wanted...

Pursuant to state law all perishable items shall be destroyed, all non-perishable items are to be inventoried and stored until the registered owner retrieves the property or 60 days has elapsed.


My house looked like a 7-11 for as long as I worked for the company.

 

no no, our tow wasn't repo'd. So pretty much this is how repoing worked (with this company):

-Repo company talks with car dealership/car loan service and asks to get all outstanding leins that need to be repo'd.
-They agree for every car repo'd the repo company will get $500 (random number)
-Repo company splits that between the footwork (me), tow company, and whatever else they need to pay off (secretary, private investigator/P.I. services, etc. etc.)


Anyways, so our boss got in some arguement bullshit with the tow company. So we had to spend a few days with practically no tow vehicles. It wasn't much fun, and most repo services would be lucky to get a 30-40% recovery rate anyway.

And I had a few incidences where some shady people had 3 cars blocking off one car that needed to get repo'd and they saw us trying to read the VIN number. Lets just say I have been in a car chase (run away car) with an angry lady with a gun in the passenger seat and ---- was nuts.

It was exciting 1 out of 10 times, and the rest was boring ---- pulling up to weird neighborhoods.

 

I actually just looked that one up on google lol. cat folder hahaha