Someone thought it was Christmas. A mentally disabled woman went to a car dealership to get maintenance done. They then ripped her off for $25,000 over the selling price of a new car they finagled her in to buying.
Have you ever been ripped off at a car dealership? I have. I have also known people new to the country buying their first car to lose thousands of dollars.
The fact of the matter is that a lot of dealerships out there wish we were mentally disabled and that they could take advantage of us.
But since we aren’t all mentally disabled the manufacturers and the dealerships collude to create overly confusing sales process – ensuring that few except the very savvy get away without being ripped off on something.
There are some very smart people out on this Earth. Some of them own car dealerships. How long until they create schemes that only other very smart people can figure out that – they have been had?
The problem this poses for the car industry – is that people get exhausted of this kind of thing. They decide that rather than go get a new car and get ripped off maybe they’ll buy some junky used car for cash and run it until it doesn’t run anymore.
Cars should be sold online just like anything else. If it is your first time you should have a friend help you. If you don’t have friends or family familiar with cars a consulting company should be able to help you learn what you need to know for a modest fee.
Nobody likes being ripped off. Even one price dealerships like the one’s for Scion have recently been ripping people off. They get a nice car like the Scion GT86/FR-S and they can’t help themselves but find a loophole to charge people more for the car than it is worth.
The FR-S was a high-demand car and so what many dealerships did to up the price was add aftermarket items to the models (which is allowed by their dealership agreement) and charged more than they cost for these add-ons to the cars (also allowed). But they then violated the spirit of their agreements with their parent company and overcharged by thousands of dollars for a few hundred dollars worth of add-ons to the cars.
TPKoC (The Pirate King of Cars) really likes the Scion FR-S. But after hearing about this kind of behavior it has really soured us here at TPKoC. Way to ruin a good thing.
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