Yea. I learned my lesson from a guy that I tried to buy a ski from last year. We had the deal all worked out, and he assured me that he had a clear title, but that the title was packed away in a box, since he was in the process of getting ready to move to another state. He assured me that he would mail the title to me once he got settled at his new location. The price was really good and the ski was beautiful, but something just sounded fishy about the deal, so I spent about $25 and did a title search (I had written down the HIN when I looked at the ski.........smartest thing I had done all year), and found out the ski was under lien. It turns out that he owed almost $4000 more than he was asking for the ski. I'm sure that I would have been left with a ski that I couldn't register, and that the bank would be coming to repo. had I gone through with the deal. I saw his ad. again on craigslist the very next week.......I hope he didn't screw over some poor sap.