June 25, 2004

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How used car dealers get their reputation for being scum

We are in the process of buying a new family car to cater for the expanding brood. It has been a typically frustrating process with the usual combination of lies, half-truths, fake sincerity and false friendliness. Our existing car is apparently too old, not the right colour, not a popular model, difficult to sell and not right for Hong Kong conditions. The dealer we are buying the car from would not accept it for a trade-in: when I tried to agree to his price for the trade-in and new car, he changed his price twice before admitting his boss had forbidden him from doing the deal. In most places car dealers are usually keen to move their stock, taking a decent profit on the trade and selling the trade-in to middlemen. Apparently not in HK.

There have been plenty of other problems. The latest is a doozy. The car we are buying is actually out of licence. When I asked him how he planned to deliver the car if it was illegal to drive it, his only answer was he had to speak to his boss. So that's how things stand at the moment: either I'll be ring HK's police to arrest the dealer or we'll be getting a new car.

My God I'd love to ring the police.

posted by Simon on 06.25.04 at 10:04 AM in the




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Comments:

I vote for call the cops.

Then again, I'm particularly unforgiving of lying salesmen.

posted by: Jim on 06.25.04 at 10:58 PM [permalink]

two words...trade plates!

posted by: henry on 06.26.04 at 05:48 PM [permalink]




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