In an attempt to protect yourself as much as possible whenWhen buying a car, many women go to a car dealership. It is assumed that by purchasing a new car in a large showroom, from an official dealer, you can avoid unnecessary problems and minimize the risk of being deceived. But does buying a car in a car dealership always exclude deception 100%? As practice shows, deception in car dealerships is a common occurrence in our time. Moreover, any buyer can become its object. Fraudsters do not differentiate their victims by gender and driving skills. It does not matter whether you are a woman or a man, a beginner or a professional with many years of experience - you have a chance not only to get a used car, but also to lose money altogether. Let's look at the most common methods of deception.
The machine is almost free?
How often do you come across this in printed media?Ads for new cars for sale at prices below market prices? Agree, the promise of getting the desired vehicle cheaper than you expected has an almost magical effect. You call the car dealership, and its employees confirm the information you received, explaining the unique offer by the fact that the car dealership works directly with the manufacturer or supplier of this car model. How can you remain indifferent? Not only will you buy a new car, but you also get a rare chance to save money. You go to the car dealership and see that the car you chose has “suddenly” gone up in price. The sales consultant, of course, will explain to you in a reasoned manner that this car has a better alarm system, all-season tires, and an electric power steering instead of a hydraulic power steering. And he will offer to make an advance payment as a confirmation of intent. You will accidentally, “by oversight,” not be given a cash receipt for the advance payment and will be asked to wait until the documents for the car and the contract are ready. With this fraudulent scheme, the wait will last several hours. And you are unlikely to be offered a cup of coffee. The delay in registration can easily be explained by the absence of a necessary employee, the delay of the director, who "will be here any minute", or an unscheduled breakdown of office equipment, a server crash. There are many options. So that you do not get bored, they will bring several documents to sign. They will offer to take a test drive. In the language of scammers, they skillfully "marinate" you to the state when you lose vigilance and are ready to sign anything without reading. Here they will tell you that all the documents are ready, the signatures have been received, and you only need to sign the contract. Even if you are rarely suspicious, this ordeal in the car dealership will lull your vigilance. You sign, and when you read the contract, it turns out that the price of the car has "grown" like yeast. But you signed, and according to the terms of the same contract, you lose the prepayment if you refuse to buy the car. "Kind" owners offer you to get a car loan on very favorable terms... We can continue the story further. But let's stop here. You already have a general idea of this fraudulent scheme, and now let's summarize everything that should have alerted you at the very beginning. Fortunately, in an artificially created situation, you have such an opportunity.
What should alarm you:
- Low price for the car - the first call for yourvigilance. You are certainly interested in and know in which price range in your city is the model of the car that you are going to buy. But if you still decided to contact this auto show, try to get more information about the seller. As you know, who has information, he rules the world.
- The difference between the real price and the one that inclined you to buy. The fact that you are trying to deceive, even slightly, is not in favor of the auto show.
- Requests to make an advance payment before signingthe contract of sale and the absence of a cash receipt clearly indicate a fraudster. The advance payment you make is the main tool for influencing you. It is best to cancel the purchase already at this stage and demand the return of the amount paid. Do not hesitate to contact the police, and not to the local office, but through the control room, so that your call was recorded. Although there is a chance that at the first mention of the call, your money will be returned to you.
- The requirement to sign some documents, delay with the execution of the contract. In this case, it does not matter what arguments lead you.
- Trying to distract you, take your attention away from artificially created red tape. Get ready and leave the showroom! By the way, at this point, you can also call a police squad.
- Any change in price in the contract, if you could not stop earlier, is the most convincing evidence that you are being deceived.
Once the contract, two agreements, three agreements
This method of deception is designed for legal purposes.your illiteracy as a buyer and some euphoria from the upcoming purchase. It is especially worth noting that fraudsters are often very subtle psychologists and accurately recognize their potential victim. So, what is this method of deception based on? When buying a car, you are given several copies of the purchase and sale agreement to sign. You carefully read the first one and sign it. The rest, as the seller assures you, are additional copies, absolutely identical to the first copy. You read them less carefully and sign them “automatically”. You are not given any documents for the car, explaining that you will receive them along with the car. You wait for your car... and nothing. When you ask where your car is, you are told that they will make it available to you as soon as you pay the money required by the agreement. You present the receipt, and they give you the agreement you signed, but not the one you carefully read, but an additional copy that you did not bother to read. And the amount in this contract is very different from what you expected. How do you like this picture? After all, this model of fraud works.
What you need to know
- Before signing any papers,thoroughly study each item. If you do not understand, read it again. Especially that part of the contract, which is written in small print. It is there that often contains reefs.
- The number of contracts depends on how muchthe parties conclude it. In this case, there are two representatives: you are a buyer, a car dealer is a seller. So, there must be two agreements signed by you. And do not hesitate to leave one copy to yourself after signing it.
- Before signing the contract, make sure that in itthe final cost of your car is indicated. In order not to "get out" VAT later, the costs of registration and something else as an unforeseen addition.
- Before you make any prepayment,read the contract and if the representatives of the car dealership (no matter under what pretext) do not give you this opportunity, safely leave the territory of the showroom. You are trying to deceive!
Automotive second hand
Quite a common scam in car dealerships– selling a used car as a new one. And it is impossible to determine “by eye” whether your car has been driven or not. They will explain to you that the car was test driven, nothing more. And under the guise of a new car, they will try to palm off on you a quite decent, but not new car. The combination is thought out to the smallest detail. The car was washed, if necessary, light cosmetic repairs were carried out. Who, if not us, women, knows how to make a new thing out of a used thing. The PTS, allegedly, was stolen by intruders or simply lost during delivery. You are given a duplicate, where the car dealership is indicated as the sole owner of the car. If you see a note “duplicate” on the vehicle registration document, it means it’s time to be wary. You should not buy old things at the price of new ones.
Who's on the newcomer?
The following scam is not particularly differentgenius, nor novelty. The whole calculation is based on your impatience and desire to get the car you like right now. You come to the car dealership, choose a car, and they even give you the opportunity to sit in it. And as soon as you have chosen, a scene plays out in front of you: it suddenly turns out that there is already a buyer for this particular car. And he has even made an advance payment. But if you wish, you can cover the advance payment and the percentage that the car dealership must return to the “imaginary client” (the amount usually varies from 20 to 25 thousand rubles), and then you will get the car right now, without delays and waiting. To convince you, they will show you a long waiting list for a car in this particular configuration. They will try to tell you that in three months anything can happen: the price of the car will rise or the configuration will change. Do not believe it, turn around and look for another car dealership.
Own exchange rate
Despite the fact that RussianThe law prohibits indicating the price of goods in foreign currency, some unscrupulous sellers still prefer to ignore this law and operate with prices in conventional units. Moreover, the rate of this conventional unit is significantly higher than that set by the Central Bank. And you will find out about this at the checkout after signing the contract, one of the clauses of which will necessarily indicate the amount of the penalty in case of refusal to purchase. But there is a way out of this situation. Before signing the contract, check in what currency the price of your car is indicated. And if not in rubles, demand that this amount be transferred to rubles, and see how much it has increased. If you did not do this in time, go to court. You will definitely win. In order for the purchase of a car to bring you only joy, you need to be vigilant regardless of where you are going to buy it. As you can see, scammers do not necessarily live on the market. And we wish you that deception in car dealerships when buying a car remains for you only the topic of this article. We advise you to read:
