Friday, July 28, 2006

A followup to the "The dealership stole my car" story

If you didn't read it on digg earlier, Bill Heard Chevrolet in Nashville sold a guy a truck and then stole it that night and told him that he could have it back if he paid them more money. First it was $10,000, then it was $11,000. The plot thickens. . .

Bill Heard Chevrolet in Sanford, FL (North of Orlando) has done some nasty shit too. When someone would take a car out for a test drive, they would take the keys of the car they were trading in so the dealership could figure out its value. If the customer decided they didn't want the new car, the dealership would refuse to give them the keys to their old car back. One woman (stupidly) panicked and bought the new car, but another one called the cops and reported her car had been stolen. The cops showed up forced them to give them her keys back.

GM was so embarrassed that they threatened to make the dealership pay for the thousands of cars on their lot (if you didn't know, dealerships make payments on their new cars, they don't buy them outright) which would have cost them millions of dollars as well as losing the right to be an authorized GM dealer. Too bad it never happened.

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