Car dealers are not, generally, known as paragons of honesty and integrity. Like veteran emergency surgeons, you’ll lose an arm and a leg in the blink of an eye. While you will end up with a car, thecostsoften outweigh the benefits.
Anetizenended up losing a few hundred dollars in travel fees due to a duplicitous car dealership that was trying to pull off a bait and switch. So they decided to spend a few moments every day for years getting back at them. We reached out to OP via Reddit and will update the story when they get back to us.
Some businesses employ all sorts of dishonest tactics to make a sale
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So one would-be customer got back at a car dealership that attempted a bait and switch
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OP decided to take matters into his own hands
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Certain business people see lying and manipulation as a normal part of their jobs
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Hearing the words “a car dealership tried something shady” has the same sort of feeling as “a bear does its business in the woods.” While, of course, there are honest car dealers everywhere, it’s ultimately a position where a salesperson has to move a rapidly depreciating item that most people take out loans to afford.
Fortunately, OP had done their research and was willing to back out of a bad deal. Some salespeople (and just regular humans around money) tend to adopt a strategy where they try to coax a person out of their money. From “looking after it” to using the sunk cost fallacy, this is how many people end up with cars they neither like, nor can afford.
OP’s strategy, while long in execution, appears to be very effective
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The real crux of the story is not a car dealership attempting to swindle a customer, that’s a practice as old as cars themselves. Instead, the draw and appeal of this tale is exactly how OP went about getting theirrevenge. A bad review is often the last refuge of an angry customer, but OP decided to take the long view.
Bad reviews are a good way to warn customers
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Not that this business deserves any real sympathy. According to OP, they took years to even pay them back for the travel expenses, and, no doubt, they have pulled similar stunts on other, unwary customers in the past. Of course, they also told OP exactly what to do, so OP, at worst, was just guilty ofmalicious compliance.
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