Jim
Phoenix,#2Consumer Comment
Tue, June 17, 2008
This is not a ripoff. Your senior citizen friend willingly drove onto the car lot and apparently purchase the vehicle. Was she held at gunpoint? I am amazed to read that someone was "made" to sign the papers and drive the car off of the lot. If she and her friend were able to drive onto the lot, then they had the physical ability to drive off the lot without the new car. The comment about her being in her 70's and from a time when someone's word was the bond, this kind of thing took place decades ago. These days everything is contractually binding. If it is not in writing then it doesn't count. I will admit that car dealerships are awful to deal with and are filled with high pressure sales tactics. The cure for that is to get up and leave when the heat gets too high. From your description, she could not afford the car in the first place. When her friend had to drive to his house to get his checkbook, why didn't she just go along with him and not come back? This is another case of someone overextending themselves and then trying to blame it on someone else. NO RIPOFF HERE