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Used car dealers have had a tricky time trying to convince the public that used car dealers are not crooked people looking to make a quick buck. But then, where did the public create this image of bad used car dealers from? Yes"¦ the movies and television personifications of used car dealers normally do not put them in good light but this is not the real reason. Many people who have run into trouble purchasing a car from a used car dealer, most likely did not run into trouble with a car dealer, rather a curbsider. What is a curbsider you may ask? The answer is as follows.
A curbsider is a person who offers to sell motor vehicles to the public with the sole intention of only making a profit while not staying around for the consequences of the vehicle. For example a curbsider, who posses as being a car dealer, will sell the car and when the consumer has a doubt or a problem with the car, the "car dealer" has no idea what the consumer is talking about and refuses to acknowledge the problem or simply ignores the consumer, if the consumer can even relocate the "car dealer".
There are two ways how a curbsider works. One: he or she is a person who sells motor vehicles on a daily basis but is not a registered member under the Motor Vehicle Dealers Act in which one must be registered in order to sell motor vehicles. These curbsiders normally try to sell these cars from a residence (home, apartment, etc.) and use excuses such as "I am purchasing a new car and I must sell this one", "I am leaving the state and moving across the country and it would be too complicated to bring the car with me, so I must sell it now", or the popular "It was my mother's car and she has recently passed away and I do not have the funds to maintain it so I must sell it".
These excuses normally give the car consumer a reason to believe and feel pitty for the false car dealer and thinks that the price of the car is low because of the urgency to get rid of the car for the above mentioned reasons. However, most consumers end up buying pieces of junk and do not realize that they have made the purchase from a curbsider rather than a car dealer.
The second type of curbsider who pretends to be a car dealer is a person who acts as if he or she was a private citizen wanting to sell his or her car, while secretly he or she is a registered member of the Motor Vehicle Dealers Act. These people have the power to buy cars at a low discount rate from other dealers and auctions and sell the cars making huge profits.
Unfortunately, these curbsiders are the people who are making a bad name for car dealers around the world. Every country has their form of cursider and car dealers are the ones left with the responsibility of cleaning up their name. Therefore the next used car purchase you make, make sure you are buying from a used car dealer rather than from a curbsider. |
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