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Title: Dealership accidentally sells new car for cheap, has customer arrested
Category: Business
Posted By: saturn_656
Date: 2012-10-03 09:40:36

[martin14]

Wow.

Very good reason for launching a lawsuit, hope it pays off.

Dealer is an idiot if they can't read their own paperwork, then call the cops
and have the guy arrested for theft.

Needs a million dollar smackdown to fix that one.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

martin14 martin14:

Wow.

Very good reason for launching a lawsuit, hope it pays off.

Dealer is an idiot if they can't read their own paperwork, then call the cops
and have the guy arrested for theft.

Needs a million dollar smackdown to fix that one.

Well he's going for $2.2M plus legal costs and I hope he gets every penny.
A signed contract is a signed contract. He might'a got the vehicle for a steal, but he sure didn't steal it.

[desertdude]

Brings a new meaning to the word stealership.

[Toastmaker]

Sounds to me like the police didn't do their job either, unless they were presented with false evidence or statements -

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[ShepherdsDog]

he was arrested/detained, he wasn't charged. There is a bit of a difference.

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[QBall]

PR fail engage! This will probably get settled out of court as I firmly believe the dealership wants this to go away.

[OnTheIce]

From a dealer perspective....

Nobody mentions initially that the dealer did something they don't have to do. They exchanged the car the next day as the customer wasn't happy with the colour. They could have stuck to the contract and prevented the customer from making the change.

In the end, the manager fucked up. It's his fault for not getting the customer to sign a new contract on site and has to eat the loss.

Good on the owner for stepping up, taking ownership and looking to make things right. Unfortunately, his managers decision is going to cost him dearly.

[Yogi]

Similar situation happened to me years ago. I purchased a mobile home set up on a lot in a park in West Edmonton. A month later the dealer called me up and informed me that "Gordie screwed up, and the price should have been $10,000.00 more than was agreed to and written up in the contract". Price was noted through out. The dealer approached me with a myriad of threats.

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[Yogi]

Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:

You didn't pay that, I hope.

THIS is all they got from me!

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Perhaps IF the dealer had approached me with a different attitude...

[Brenda]

Weird. The police arrested the guy 5 weeks later? On what grounds? Guilty until proven innocent, obviously.

[BartSimpson]

Un-freaking-believable.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/09/man ... ?hpt=hp_c3

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If a deal seems too good to be true, it probably is. At least that’s what Danny Sawyer learned when a local Priority Chevrolet dealership mistakenly sold him an SUV for $5,600 less than its actual price — and then had him arrested for theft.

Sawyer is now suing the Chesapeake, Va. dealership for accusing him of stealing and ordering his arrest, according to the Virginian-Pilot.

In the lawsuit, Sawyer, 40, claims he bought a black Chevrolet Traverse and then returned it the next morning so he could get a blue one. The sales manager agreed to the trade and allegedly did not explain that the blue version would cost more. Sawyer signed a contract to buy the blue vehicle for $34,000 when it should have sold for closer to $39,000, CBS News reported.

Sawyer says he was bombarded with voice messages and letters from the dealership a week later, because the sales manager admitted he made an error and wanted Sawyer to sign a new, adjusted contract. When Sawyer refused, the dealership tried talking with him again before filing a police report alleging that the SUV had been stolen. One June 15, Sawyer was arrested outside his house and spent four hours in jail before being released on bond, the Virginian-Pilot says.

Priority Chevrolet President Dennis Ellmer told the Virginian-Pilot on Wednesday that the dealership “definitely made a mistake.”

“I owe Mr. Sawyer a big apology,” Ellmer said. “It is my plan to let him keep the $5,600 and to make Mr. Sawyer right. I can’t tell you how I plan to fix it, but it is my intention to make it right.”

Sawyer’s attorney told the newspaper that an apology is insufficient. Through two lawsuits, Sawyer is seeking $2.2 million in damages, in addition to attorney fees. The charges against Sawyer have been dropped, according to the Virginian-Pilot.