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Dear Eric: Almost a year ago, my husband, “Bob,” bought a 17-year-old car with 200,000 miles on it from a neighbor, “Jane.” It was in bad shape but ran well.
Last week Bob bought a car with 100,000 miles on it. I put sale ads for the older car on a popular social media site that I know Jane is on, and an ad in the local paper which I know Jane has delivered to her house. We also had the car in our driveway, pointed outward, with a large For Sale sign in it.
Five days after he sold his old car, Jane called me, very upset. She told me they had an