I was recently in the market for a scooter, and I ...

I was recently in the market for a scooter, and I spent a couple of months looking at both new and used scooters. I would highly recommend, and I can't stress this enough, only buying a scooter from a brick and mortar store like Scooterworks rather than online. Usually, I'm a bargain hunter, and I would go for a high quality used scooter that I found on Craigslist or OfferUp. But there's something very strange about the market place for used scooters. First, 90% of the used scooters online were being sold without the title. Okay dude that means you stole it and no I'm not that stupid. When pressed about not having the title, every single seller said "Oh I can't find it". Well you're selling stuff online so I'm assuming you can use Google Maps. Can you find the DMV? They'll give you a new one and that's how you legitimately sell a vehicle, liar.

Second, almost none of the scooters available had more than a thousand miles on them. That sounds good at first but, what is wrong with the scooters that none of them get more than a thousand miles on them before the owners sell them? And why are nearly all of them broken in some way, not from being crashed but from having maintenance issues? Shouldn't there be at least some scooters where the owner drove 5000 miles and then decided to sell it? It makes me skeptical of the quality of all scooters quite frankly. Even Scooterworks had very few used ones, but they did have a great selection of brand new, beautiful, inviting scooters that will make you want to buy one. And I thought they were pretty friendly too.

Avoid buying a new scooter online at all costs. If you spend any time reading the reviews, you will find that nearly all of them come unassembled. What? You want me to drive a vehicle on the road but first use an allen wrench to put it together? Seriously? No. Can you imagine if your car came in pieces, with a handy allen wrench to put it together? Scooterworks will sell you a scooter that is already put together and ready to drive, and I can't believe I even have to say that.