Category Archives: Used Car Fraud
Don’t Let Repair Shops Pressure You Into Unnecessary Vehicle Repairs
Personal finance experts advise you to build an emergency fund before you start trying to save substantial amounts of money in the long term, and even before you start aggressively paying down your credit card debt. Emergency expenses are lurking around every corner, and often these require you to take money out of your… Read More »
Car Dealership Owner Faces More Than 100 Charges for Illegal Business Practices
Buying a used car is an inexact science. There are so many stories out there about cars that disintegrated almost as soon as the buyer drove them out of the dealership parking lot that you cannot be sure that this will not happen to you until you have been driving your car without incident… Read More »
Should You Buy a Used Car From a Dealership or From an Individual?
If you had unlimited funds, you could walk into a car dealership, pay the sticker price for a new car, and own it outright. That option is beyond most people’s means. Your choices are either to finance a used car or else to buy the clunkiest of clunkers from a friend of a friend,… Read More »
Four Guilford Township Car Dealership Employees Face Criminal Charges for Odometer Fraud
Tampering with a car’s odometer to make it look like it has traveled fewer miles than it has is one of the oldest tricks in the book, but odometer fraud is still widespread in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Cars have changed a lot since the days where you could turn back a car’s odometer simply… Read More »
Adams County Car Dealer Faces Fraud Charges for Failure to Register Buyers’ Auto Titles
Buying a car is a multi-step process. When you walk into a car dealership and do more than take a few selfies with the cars on the showroom floor, when you stay long enough to engage with a salesperson, you are in for a long day; in fact, you should never shop for cars… Read More »
Beware of Dealership Cloning
On Memorial Day weekend, car dealerships turn up the charm and roll back prices as much as their budgets will allow. These days, cars are so expensive that, even if you trade in your old car and use the proceeds for a down payment on the new one, you will probably have to finance… Read More »
When Does Delayed Vehicle Ownership Paperwork Become Used Car Fraud?
Buying a car is a marathon, not a sprint, even if it is not your first vehicle purchase. You spend hours going back and forth with chatty salespeople at the dealership about minute features of the car that might increase or decrease the sale price by a few dollars, until the financial department finally… Read More »
Effective Fixes for Common Used Car Scams
Questionable practices surrounding the sale of used cars are almost as old as the automobile itself. Unscrupulous sellers have been saying “caveat emptor” since the days when buyers knew what that meant. When people buy cars under shady circumstances, it is usually not because of a lack of caution, but rather because of a… Read More »
Fraudulent Online Sale of Used Cars
Nothing is what it seems on the Internet, but the Internet is often the fastest and least expensive way to buy things. The Internet is also responsible for a sharp decline in fraudulent business practices by car dealers, because customers could now research the cars they were interested in buying before they went to… Read More »
Beware of Odometer Fraud
The odometer on the car is the part on the dashboard that shows the number of miles the car has traveled since it was manufactured. In other words, how old or new a car is depends not only on its model year but also on its mileage. Odometer fraud is when a seller tampers… Read More »
