Jim
Orlando,#2Consumer Suggestion
Sun, June 06, 2004
The best defense any of us has against being defrauded and deceived by the slime of the car business is our own two feet! Quite often you can see evidence IN ADVANCE! How? Check the ads. If the dealer lists a price of the car at say $10,000 but then at the bottom of the page there's a $400-$1000 "dealer fee" or whatever official sounding name they call this FRAUD, they are telling you UP FRONT their level of integrity is found in the septic tank. Why? Because the con-artist dealership is advertising only a partial price for the car. The real price is the advertised price PLUS the "dealer fee" (also known as the "slime fee"). Some may say..."but what about taxes and licensing fees?" Those fees go to the state not the dealer. When charging a slime fee, the dealership is telling you IN ADVANCE they have no problem with DEFRAUDING you! Also the BBB? You can tell them all you want but the truth is the BBB is a USELESS organization which lives on hype and a distorted, twisted public image. The BBB is a totally incompetent, useless, space wasting do-nothing operation which has NO VALUE. Don't waste your time with them. The BBB is USELESS!!!!!!