That's a riot. Our neighbor across the street had their car repoed and they showed up at 11:00 at night with a Dodge/Cummins. No way in hell they were sneaking up on anybody with that thing.
Reponut was pretty slick most of the time. Even with the Powerjoke he could usually snag them fast. He was also good with people. Most of the time he could make contact, get the keys and people were happy to get their stuff out of the car.
He was pretty compassionate too. He picked up one at a Micky D's where the owner worked. She came out and got her stuff but she was embarrassed about what her co-workers would think and he told her to tell them she was having trouble with the car and her cousin owned a service station and was picking it up to change the fuel pump, and that her co-workers didn't need to know cr@p about her situation. Seemed like a decent guy. It was a shame how things went bad for him.
Just from what you're saying, he's a good repo guy. The few repos I did, like you said, compasionatte is key. For real man, you don't know someone's situation, never put a person down cuz they can't make their payment. They might have lost a job, they might have cancer and can't work, a tough divorce, you never know so always try to be empathetic. I did let one keep his car. I felt so bad for him. He gave me the keys and all and he mentioned the holidays and was hoping he'd get to go see his kids before he had to give the car up and they lived 10 hours away out of state. How the hell do you do that??? I had a little talk with the guy, and asked him, YOU PROMISE to call me when you get back? He says huh??? I asked, so if I let you keep the car for NOW, and use it for the trip to go see yoru kids for the holiday, will you call me when you get back so I can come pick it up then? The dude about cried and said, man I'll bring it to your front door. He told me not only how much it meant, but also the fact he'd be able to sleep at night cuz he's always listening for the repo man. I told him, I'll call the repo man off for now but don't let the bank know we have arrangments for this cuz they want it NOW. It's cool when you can help someone out. This guy had no money, no credit card to rent a car, he wouldn't have been to see his kids, and to me, it's not about the dude seeing his kids, it's about the kids getting to see their dad.
One girl, I got her car, felt bad for her, I was able to set her up with one of my tow buddies that had an unclaimed impound that he had just finished the paperwork on to gain title. He sold her the car for $500. It was beat up and looked like hell, but it ran good and had a heater. He held it for her 2 days til payday and took $300 down, and floated the other $200 for 28 days so that her next check she could get the title done. So though I had to take her car, I at least got her fixed up so she had a ride.
Now that ones that I was in your face and no mercy, was the ******** that I knew were hiding the car and dodging me. Those ones became a fun challenge, even though it pissed me off, it was still fun and I loved taking them. I'd follow them to a grocery store and wait for them to go in and laugh my ass off. Then sit out in the parking lot wait for them to be coming out, and I'm way down at the other end of the parking lot and I'm honkin' the horn and waving, Look dick, I got your **** !!! FINALLY !!! And drive off.
