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Not every car-buying experience goes according to plan.
After a test drive led to a collision, one driver ended up taking down a crooked car dealership who tried to take advantage of the incident.
Read on for the full story!
A number of years ago, I was test-driving a used sports car.
But the test drive didn’t end well.
I got about one block from the dealership and got into an accident — partially my fault.
The brakes were spongy, and the stop ended up with the front end of the car sticking into an intersection by about two feet.
It was a residential area, and the only car on the cross street took off the front end of the car I was driving.
That driver might not have hit me if they hadn’t been turned around talking to someone in the back seat.
The driver did their due diligence and ended up getting off pretty easy.
I made a police report and an insurance report, and the insurance company said not to worry.
But that didn’t prevent the dealership from pulling a few tricks.
A couple of months later, I received a letter from the dealership saying I owed the price of the car, and if I didn’t pay, they were going to sue me.
But I had already talked to the insurance company.
But this driver knew better.
Once I informed the dealership that I had already spoken to the insurance company and knew the payout was more than the sales price of the car, I never heard from them again.
They decided to take action.
I then contacted the government office that licenses car dealers and told them what happened.
They ended up losing their license.
Turns out, it does pay to be honest.
What did Reddit have to say?
This commenter find it refreshing to see justice being served.
Turns out, their corruption was their downfall!
Things work a bit differently in Europe.
This person might have taken the hit, but they weren’t about to let a dealership’s corruption take them for a ride.
Looks like the player got played this time!
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Based in New York, Stephen Freeman is a Senior Editor at Trending Insurance News. Previously he has worked for Forbes and The Huffington Post. Steven is a graduate of Risk Management at the University of New York.