Overhaulin'

Why don't the police shut down most new car dealers?

My grandfather took his Buick in for a service, it is four years old, stays in a full garage, and has only 8 thousand miles on it. Granddad is 87 and a former pilot for the Navy. Recently he called me and was confused, he lost his car! I came over and there was a new sports car in his garage, 6 miles on it, and the paper plate had His Name on it! He sat down and said now he remembers a nice guy pushing this car on him, and he thought he was only taking it home so they could change all the tires on his car, and he would come back the next day and pick up his car. Come to find out when he went in for the free oil change, they convinced him all his tires were no good from lack of use, and charged him $800 for tires ! Then an hour later, swindled him into signing for the new sports car, and took away his still new smelling 4 year old car! Then I get a call from his trust officer telling me they had transferred $42.000 out of his account to the dealers based on a signed per chase order! OMG!!!!!!!!!! I called the dealer and after being given the run around, was told he wanted the trade! And it was all his idea, and the trade in had been sent to auction and sold! And he was free to as he wished, and the deal was final! I called G.M. The BBB My lawyer, and my son in law is the Chief of Police out of state, and he told me the license to sell cars is a license to conduct organized crime! Because you see the big factory sign on the lot ( GM) and think you are dealing with GM, but in fact, all car dealers are hiding behind that, and are slimy local fast buck con men with a 100 different tricks to screw you when you sit down to buy a car. In my case I was about to faint because of the stress, I called the T.V. Station and was told this dealer was a HUGE advertisement account, and they were not about to take the lead going after him. No One was willing to help! Only after I told my lawyer to unchain his dogs on this bastard, and as soon as the demand letter/advice of imminent legal filing and then a "Hippie" type free newspaper made this the front page news story, did they suddenly have a teenage looking secretary drive dads car over and ask for the keys to the sunfire (we looked high and low for the keys! Gave up and then the tow truck driver saw them in the ignition) she gave. Full refund, less the $800 for replacing new tires with new tires! OMG why are dealers, who pay BIG money into the BBB as "members-board members-advisors" control the media with fat checks for endless ads, and make token charity donations so they can have a wall full of goodwill letters... Why are they not exposed for what they are! I don"t know what the two seat sports car is called, It was tiny and with built in roll bars. It had been in the showroom for a long time as a traffic getter I'm told. It had extended warranty to 100.000 miles and all kinds of options added to the side of the window, even the wheels were add on. Yes, most people know NOT to take advantage of elderly people, my mother died and pop's has had strangers help him many times when he did things like left his Wallet on the counter of starbucks, went to sleep with the front door of the house open, and once a lady we never met drove him to the vet doctor and waited for him, and drove him back home when his 18 year old dog got sick and I was on a cruise. If you are a heartless bastard you can screw all the older people you can find, they are trusting and Honorable, pop flew combat in Korea and Vietnam and yet his local G.M. dealer was the only enemy he had to deal with. For the outraged people in my city who are determaned to put thi

Public Comments

1. I'm confused... since when is a Sunfire a $42,000 sportscar?
2. Your grandfather went out and bought a new car without knowing it or remembering it? If your grandfather is that impaired, he should not be living alone. That's not the responsibility of a car dealership, that's the responsibility of your family. The salesperson would have no way of judging his competency. Not to doubt your story, but "a signed purchase order" would not authorize a transfer of funds.
3. What man? This is no ones fault but your grandfathers. HE signed the papers on the new car. HE was the one who drove it home. Called lawyer, BBB and the police?? Well, that was a waste of time. You're an idiot. I guess you should have went with your grandfather instead of letting him go by himself if he's that incompetent. His age is no excuse. He should be wiser in his elderly years. "He sat down and said now he remembers a nice guy pushing this car on him, and he thought he was only taking it home so they could change all the tires on his car, and he would come back the next day and pick up his car." Come on...I cannot believe ANYONE is THAT stupid. DON'T group all of us professional car salesman together. Your grandfather is old enough to responsible for his own incompetence. NO ONE held a gun to his head. Next time, don't let him out of the house without his helmet.
4. Car dealers are the scum of the earth! Greed rules that trade with an iron fist and doesn't care who gets hurt in the process. I had to leave that profession because of the greed, I seen it first hand...it isn't the salesperson that is to blame or the managers...it starts at the top the owner of the dealership! They believe the factory logo is a license to steal and cheat anyone and everyone that dares to step foot on their lot! Glad to see that the deal was undone. Someone at that dealership knew your grandfather wasn't competent enough to make that deal but chose to do it anyway. Had this case gone to court, the dealer would have lost much more than the money they made...courts and juries hate car dealers because we have all been their victims at some point!