Dealer advertised price was a mistake, won’t honor
07-01-2018, 12:07 PM
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My young kids (32 and 26) have what I consider high income, both have been at their current jobs for 2-3 years and have near perfect credit scores. Not sure, nor is it my business, why you would have 5-6 inquiries annually, seems like a lot to me. My daughter is in a management program and it requires her to move every 6 months for the program for 2 years. Her credit score has not changed at all, downward, before her mortgage inquiry to now. My son recently (2 years ago) changed his job and saw no credit changes.
I guess we have trained them right: Got them setup early with a checking, credit card and debit card for use at college. Pay all financed items off early. Take advantage of zero finance situations even though you can pay cash, but pay off early. Then once they graduated, they both acquired one more card for various reasons, but mainly acceptability while traveling and points back.
In this day and age, at least at my age, credit is very easy to get but not needed. Also, with everyone accepting MC and Visa and Discover, you really only need 1 or 2 cards these days, unlike when I was growing up with an: Exxon, Gulf, Texaco, MC, Visa, AE, Diners club and the list goes on......
I guess we have trained them right: Got them setup early with a checking, credit card and debit card for use at college. Pay all financed items off early. Take advantage of zero finance situations even though you can pay cash, but pay off early. Then once they graduated, they both acquired one more card for various reasons, but mainly acceptability while traveling and points back.
In this day and age, at least at my age, credit is very easy to get but not needed. Also, with everyone accepting MC and Visa and Discover, you really only need 1 or 2 cards these days, unlike when I was growing up with an: Exxon, Gulf, Texaco, MC, Visa, AE, Diners club and the list goes on......
i said having 5-6 is my max during a two year period. As you can see I have 3 this year. This is due to the dealer 4 months ago when I purchased my 17 platinum. The dealer pulled their inquiry along with ford motor credit. After I signed deal I went to my local credit union to refinance. I used ford motor for the additional rebates.
07-01-2018, 03:58 PM
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Because I got my loan thru my credit union, nobody had to run my credit again. I let them know what was up, and they basically tore up the first check and wrote us another one when we bought a different vehicle 2 weeks later. The dealership did not offer us anything other than to try and get me into a crappy lease. Wrote a review and within a day they contacted me to rectify it. So while they didn't fix it without some work on my part, they did install a factory hitch in the bumper which was about a 700 dollar job for the hidden honda hitch, for their cost of parts. So I got a factory hitch for about what I would have gotten an aftermarket for. I was happy enough. Though they flexed the bumper and cracked the paint at the stress point. kind of a comedy of errors with that whole thing. But I have to give them credit again. They sent someone up in a CRV, left me the car and took my van. They are about 3.5 hours away round trip. They took it in the morning and brought me the van back fixed the next day.
07-01-2018, 09:40 PM
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WOW. I could’ve sworn this started as a thread about an advertised price!
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07-01-2018, 11:04 PM
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01-22-2020, 08:41 PM
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If it weren't a mistake, they would not have corrected the price immediately. Sounds like they wanted to do something for you and come up with special pricing to not leave a bad taste in your mouth. Pertaining to the original question, the answer is NO. No business has to sell anything to you if they choose not to. They could not or were unwilling to sell the vehicle to you for that price and that is their decision to make, not yours. Stop trying to get things for free, beg for handouts or get people/businesses on some kind of technicality.
01-22-2020, 08:57 PM
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A little late to the party
01-23-2020, 08:09 AM
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Not sure how this translates to vehicles or external advertising, but in Connecticut if you go in to a retail store and and buy something that scans higher than the sticker price at check-out they have to legally give it to you at the lower price.