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I couldn’t agree more with the author. It’s my exact experience. I’m in the market to get a car for my 16 year old daughter. Found a car she wanted online, mad

I couldn’t agree more with the author. It’s my exact experience. I’m in the market to get a car for my 16 year old daughter. Found a car she wanted online, made an appointment (after they confirmed the inventory with the dealership) - we drove 2 hours only to be told the car we wanted just got moved to sister dealership a few miles away… asked them if we could go see or buy it only to be told it sold (after a minute of “checking”) and by the way all cars are marked $10k above MSRP in the name of market adjustment! I guess technically it’s not false advertising since the advertised car we wanted “sold”. What infuriated me is not even time wasted - with confirmation I started financing process!! Now I have an inquiry on my credit report for nothing. It’s such an outdated sales model based on trickery and I hope dealerships go by way of malls in my lifetime!

matttb 4y ago
> I guess technically it’s not false advertising since the advertised car we wanted “sold”. I worked at a car dealership and they absolutely lied about this stuff. They would say that the law lets them do it as long as it was sold within 24 hours, but they also kept advertising cars that had been sold weeks ago. Every time someone came in and asked they'd give the "Sorry it was sold within the past 24 hours" lie.