>Search for used car online>Dealerships spamming new car new car listings in used/ private seller section>listed at $1 for some reason>Price in description is the down payment
Yeah the other part I love is when the "price" is actually for a fully financed purchase assuming you're applying for a distressed loan with 11 bankruptcies and a 650 credit score. You just know that if you walk in there with cash they're going to bump the price by another $5000.Sites like carfax and such should kick dealers off for playing games with the numbers like that.
>>28951546What if you take the financing then pay it off the next payment?
>>28951595Because I still have to spend 3-6 months destroying my credit first in order to qualify for the high interest loan that they need me to qualify for. And I have to get it in an extremely narrow band, just barely above the "too shitty to ever get a loan" but just barely below "too good to get a high interest rate". In essence there are maybe 3 or 4 people in my entire state who would qualify for that loan.
>>28951595you'll make the dealership, and salesmen in particular SUPER BIG MAD. They get a kickback from the lender, and have to pay that back :)Some loans have a provision that block you from doing what you describe for some period of time, like 6 mos; with an early repayment penalty.
>>28951509That's been a thing since newspaper classifieds and vehicle financing has existed. It's twice as old as I am, at the least.
>>28951509Look bro, I don't know what to tell you. You are in a Darwinian struggle against effeciency for any internet site, facebook marketplace, Twitter, hell fucking 4chan if people figured out how to sell shit on here. The moment the site can be used to make money, you are in competition with everyone else to see who can make the most profit using that tool.You need to be maximizing your profit at all times, on every site. The institutions or people who do so become better able to make more posts and dominate said platform. It sucks, but if that's not you or the people you want to buy from, you need to find a new site to use.
>>28951509Yeah people do this on all listing sites to get views, realtors even put listings from hundreds of km away in cottage country in the middle of the city so you'll click on it thinking wow it's listed $300k below the market!It's easy to filter out, just set your minimum price to be higher than their fake listings or minimum mileage or maximum year etc.
>>28951626Go outside for once
>>28951509Stay off facebook son.
>>28951636I will once I figure out how to monetize other people touching grass.
set your minimum price to $1235
>>28951636nta but i'm outside right now and he's right so shut the fuck up
>>28951643there's an age old industry doing just that called hospitality
>>28951643Make the next pokemon go but with beyblades or something.
>>28951652Brother, I want to figure out how to make people pay me to have a lawn. Closest I've got is trying to get the tree huggers to back a prohibition on lawn care outside licensed lawn care companies.
>>28951662>Starts an underground lawn care racketIt's nothin personal, see.
>>28951643Based AF.
>>28951509Social media, and the web 2.0 in general, is no longer for personel use. It's a vehicle for business and content creators to reach a wider audience. YOU are cluttering up THEIR platfrom, not the other way around.
>>28951509Set minimum to 2000$ or something then scroll from there
>>28951509>>28952213>see car listed for price, say, $14,999>okay deal, sounds decent for the mileage however>SOLAMENTE NECESITA PASAPORTE>ALL CREDIT APPROVE>PRICE WITH FINANCING ONLY AND REFLECTS $5K DOWN
>>28951509Report them all to the FTC for the lulz and watch them get fined to death. If they're dumb enough to keep doing this when the FTC has fired warning shots and is actively decapitating CEOs, CFOs, and COOs alongside the DOJ in silence and violence, let them walk into the meat grinder.
>>28952352>https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/Literally that easy. All they want are targeting coordinates.
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>>28951605>like 6 mos>make lowest possible payments for 6 months>Pay off rest afterProblem, dealerships?
>>28952361After that, file a complaint with your State Attorney General and also your State DMV. This causes the following:>FTC is the federal wrecking ball>State Attorney General is the state level sledgehammer>DMV or Dealer Licensing Board handles dealer's licensesYou want to hammer them on every angle until they feel the pressure of being screwed on every legal level. You want to punish every loser that tries to pull this bullshit on you. You want to drive them out of business or pull their license.Know your administrative violence if they fuck you over like this. Consumer protections laws are extremely strong if you know how to use them, and multiple people flood the report queue to the point where the sleeping giant wakes up and gets pissed off that it got woken up.
>>28952368And yes, a lot of these dealer behaviors are 100% illegal, but people have this perception of learned helplessness from being screwed over on car sales for decades.This is why consumer protections laws like this are so easy to report on online. It's designed to be easy to use so that if there is a bad actor, the process is extremely low-stakes.
>>28952361Instead of outright reporting them, can I use this to strongarm them into doing what I want them to?
>>28952372You can do whatever you want, but I don't do business with scumbags, especially of the car salesman type.I am more of a long-game type of person. If I want someone gone, I want it done with a $10 million fine and twenty people going to prison. It's not about the car, it's about punishing people who abuse the public trust for profit.More people should be made aware of this.
>>28952371Examples of dealers getting 10/10 FAFO.>https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/auto-dealership-owner-sentenced-prison-fraud-case>https://www.nhada.com/news/ftc-announces-settlement-3-million-civil-penalty-against-dealership>https://www.consumerfinancialserviceslawmonitor.com/2024/01/ftc-and-connecticut-ag-file-suit-against-auto-dealer-over-alleged-junk-fees/State government and their Attorney Generals are basically begging the public to rat out bad dealers.
>>28952390Based.
>>28952397The funny part? The federal government offered a peace offering in the form of the CARS (Combating Auto Retail Scams) Rule, which was a set of regulations to protect consumers from deceptive practices.The auto dealer lobby viciously struck it down in federal appeals court, thinking they won.The DOJ and FTC basically looked at that, and said, "Cool, if you're not going to do business legally, we're sending all of you to prison. Don't even try to burn your paper trail, that's also illegal."All they require is the American public to report every time a dealer tries to fuck them over. There has never been a better time to use the government's lawfare against a stealership. Due to stimmy checks and covid premiums, basically any dealer that marked up their cars are civilly and criminally liable for punitive action. Vance's anti-fraud task forces are designed to do this job alongside federal agencies. That dude is the most dangerous man in D.C. when it comes to consumer advocacy.https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/establishing-the-task-force-to-eliminate-fraud/That was March 16th. The "Hewwo pwease" man is fucking murdering the top leadership of everyone who allowed this stupid shit to happen and the organization isn't even old enough to have its first quarterly report.
