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Annual auto roundup.(Selling it: goofs / glitches / gotchas)(Brief Article)
When we fired up our computer recently and Googled "car dealers seams," we were steered to roughly 247,000 listings covering everything from forged signatures to the phrases dealers use to persuade you to pay more ("You're stealing food from my baby's mouth").
For gripes about new, dubious car-selling tactics, we consulted our auto-test experts, who bought 59 cars last year. (They don't reveal during negotiations with dealers that they're buying for CONSUMER REPORTS.)
Gripe 1: The assumption that the buyer wants dealer add-arts. "At its most obvious," a staffer said, "the item is actually already printed on the purchase order." The printed extras recently spied at a Nissan dealer: VIN etching, wheel locks, ...
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