The Federal Trade Commission issued a new rule designed to protect auto buyers from scams in the sale including advertising and financing scams together with ad on product sales. The new rule is to go into effect this summer. Requirements under the new CARS Rule...
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Watch for Flooded Cars
Here at Georgia Consumer Lawyer we are familiar with flood damaged cars being sold without disclosure after Katrina, Sandy and others. Now, we urge you to watch for Florence Flooding cars being sold from the North Carolina without disclosure. It’s been about two...
Auto Fraud Verdict on Rebuilt Wreck Case
I got a jury verdict on Wednesday after a three day trial in which a conservative North Atlanta jury awarded treble and punitive damages against a slimy car dealer. The $6999 car sale turned into a $72,000 debacle for the defendant dealer. This is the long version:...
AutoFraud Jury Verdict for Disabled American Vet and Partner
I tried another slimy car dealer case against a Cobb County used car dealer before Judge Schuster this week. Judge Schuster and his staff were very pleasant to work with and allowed us to try out case. He asked sound and thoughtful questions on the legal issues. My...
Lemon Car Laundering-An Atlanta Story
Consumer advocates call it “lemon laundering.” It is the resale without proper disclosure of cars with a history of chronic problems which required the manufacturer to buy it back under the lemon law. This occurs all too frequently in Georgia. We have had success in...
Failure to Deliver Title or Tag
We are seeing more and more dealers fail yo deliver the tag and title paperwork they have agreed to deliver as part of the sale. Often the dealer has charged a fee for this service. The reasons dealers fail to deliver are several) they do not have the title because...
Dealer Doesn’t Deliver Title
Time and time again, used car dealers across the state of Georgia do detrimental things to consumers. Can a dealership sell a car without a title? I had a client come in who had just bought a 2007 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 pick up truck. My client began to make...
Judge Finds Emissions Violation Awards Damages
One of the easiest ways for used car dealers to make profit is to purchase cheap used vehicles that have not and can not pass emissions and sell them to people as normal “clean” cars without a valid passing emissions certificate. Recently, one of our clients bought a...
Recent Georgia Fair Business Practices Act Violation Trial
Recently, I had a client come in about Land Rover he had recently purchased online from Class Auto Company, LLC. My client testified that the responded to an advertisement for the sale of this car by defendant which represented the car as having “a clean carfax,...
No Surprise that ‘Auto Complaints’ Tops List of Consumer Complaints
Georgia Office of Consumer Protection Administrator John Sours sent this article listing the most complained of consumer complaints. The article was based upon surveys conducted by the Consumer Federation and surveyed general-purpose consumer protection agencies at...