Should I blast the Car Dealership that was Going to Throw me in Jail? Details Inside
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I am calm, but I also don't agree to things I can't fulfill so it makes my life a little easier.
Did you already sign the title over to them at this point? No? Then it's not their car and the cops would've laughed at them. Might have even been a little pissed they filed a false police report. At that point their only option was to sue you.
Do what you need to but you're just as much at fault as the dealer. Were their tactics shady? Yeah but they're fucking used car salesmen ... not exactly the definition of honest.
@cheshire - I purposely included my faults in the deal in this thread, otherwise I would have been lying by omition. Had I left out those facts, it would have been easy to manipulate WF into becoming my army for justice. But, I am not like that.
I did learn a lesson. I dont need an army. @Acidie your conspiracy theory is ridiculous. I have a strategic marketing plan mapped out to tell my story. I wont divulge it all here, but the most minor part of my plan - I scraped all their autorader listings, website, social profiles, review sites like yelp and others, everything with there name on it and created PPV campaigns with a couple of networks. LP is my story. I dont know how many car salespeople can create digital strategies and are still car salesmen.
I did learn a lesson. I dont need an army. @Acidie your conspiracy theory is ridiculous. I have a strategic marketing plan mapped out to tell my story. I wont divulge it all here, but the most minor part of my plan - I scraped all their autorader listings, website, social profiles, review sites like yelp and others, everything with there name on it and created PPV campaigns with a couple of networks. LP is my story. I dont know how many car salespeople can create digital strategies and are still car salesmen.
The most important comment made by OP imo.
I'm guessing his wonderful & loving wife is hanging over him "get a new car, get a new car...I fucking want a new car whatever it takes...blah blah blah."
Pussy ALWAYS clouds your judgement.
Next time go alone to dealership or use the Costco Auto Buying Program and stop wasting your life over a few hundred dollars in particular if you're going to finance it.
Buying a car is so fucking dumbed down these days. You don't have to negotiate anymore unless you absolutely need to save a few hundred bucks.
I'm guessing his wonderful & loving wife is hanging over him "get a new car, get a new car...I fucking want a new car whatever it takes...blah blah blah."
Pussy ALWAYS clouds your judgement.
Next time go alone to dealership or use the Costco Auto Buying Program and stop wasting your life over a few hundred dollars in particular if you're going to finance it.
Buying a car is so fucking dumbed down these days. You don't have to negotiate anymore unless you absolutely need to save a few hundred bucks.
OP, even giving you the benefit of the doubt, there are way too many red-flags in your story. Even hearing just your side, I'm guessing there is a lot more to it than what you said here. I feel like you are going to go off half-cocked because you're mad at the dealership, for shit that was on your side not theirs, and it could end up blowing up in your face.
Let's recap:
1. you signed a "backup option contract."
2. You state "They were willing to file a police report that my car that I was going to trade was stolen and have me arrested for driving it." - that makes absolutely zero sense, either the deal was done and they have a possession right to the car that would allow that, or the deal isn't done because you still haven't given them the (financed) funds to complete the deal, there is no middle ground. Either you had bought the car, or you hadn't, but that statement makes ZERO sense from a legal standpoint, absolutely none.
3. You are mad that "they only gave you 10 minutes, jammed the contract in your body,your wife & kid were there", etc etc, but how is any of that anyone's fault at the dealership? You also ultimately ended up buying the car anyways, without a trade-in, which makes your earlier statement about how they were going to be able to report your original car as stolen make even less sense, if that's possible.
So, were they jerks about the deal and left a customer with a bad experience, Sure. Did they do you wrong by any objective measure? meh, open to debate, possibly. But no attorney I know would touch that case even if the facts were exactly as you stated them (and the facts are NEVER that one-sided), so I'd recommend you think long and hard before you go try to trash them online or whatever "revenge" you have in mind, because a lot of your story doesn't compute, and you don't want to end up in an even worse situation by trying to retaliate. Write it off as a bad experience, be more prepared the next time you go car shopping somewhere else, and get on with your life.
/just one lawyer's $.02
Let's recap:
1. you signed a "backup option contract."
2. You state "They were willing to file a police report that my car that I was going to trade was stolen and have me arrested for driving it." - that makes absolutely zero sense, either the deal was done and they have a possession right to the car that would allow that, or the deal isn't done because you still haven't given them the (financed) funds to complete the deal, there is no middle ground. Either you had bought the car, or you hadn't, but that statement makes ZERO sense from a legal standpoint, absolutely none.
3. You are mad that "they only gave you 10 minutes, jammed the contract in your body,your wife & kid were there", etc etc, but how is any of that anyone's fault at the dealership? You also ultimately ended up buying the car anyways, without a trade-in, which makes your earlier statement about how they were going to be able to report your original car as stolen make even less sense, if that's possible.
So, were they jerks about the deal and left a customer with a bad experience, Sure. Did they do you wrong by any objective measure? meh, open to debate, possibly. But no attorney I know would touch that case even if the facts were exactly as you stated them (and the facts are NEVER that one-sided), so I'd recommend you think long and hard before you go try to trash them online or whatever "revenge" you have in mind, because a lot of your story doesn't compute, and you don't want to end up in an even worse situation by trying to retaliate. Write it off as a bad experience, be more prepared the next time you go car shopping somewhere else, and get on with your life.
/just one lawyer's $.02
Thanks for responding Mont.
1. Yes, I did. But, I was lied to to get it signed. Still dumb on my part.
2. Contract also included the trade of my car, giving them title. They also had an $8000 check to go with it. This is the deal they were rushing through. The deal I made left the trade out, so I didnt trade. 2 options - Buy the car or buy the car.
Since they forced me to be a customer. I can share my story. No slander or anything, just my side of the story, just as factual but with more detailed info that what I posted here, since I didnt want to ignore you guys with a novel.
1. Yes, I did. But, I was lied to to get it signed. Still dumb on my part.
2. Contract also included the trade of my car, giving them title. They also had an $8000 check to go with it. This is the deal they were rushing through. The deal I made left the trade out, so I didnt trade. 2 options - Buy the car or buy the car.
Since they forced me to be a customer. I can share my story. No slander or anything, just my side of the story, just as factual but with more detailed info that what I posted here, since I didnt want to ignore you guys with a novel.
So if I'm correct, you signed a contract and then wanted out of it? Am I missing something that makes this untrue?
It was a contract that wasnt supposed to be. In the end I would have been fine with it, except the dealership pulled my credit an additional 15 times after that and had a better deal worked out.
The better deal included more money down to cover the neg. equity in the trade. At that point, I was like why not just keep the trade and pay it off and have an extra car. That way, the payments would where I wanted and they got to sell a car.
We talked about it over the phone and they told me ok come one in and get it. When I got there, there was no alternative deal. That is when they threw that contract at me and told me thanks for buying the car.
After all was said and done, interest rate was 2.99, 4.5% lower.
