Archive for January, 2009

Car Auction News - New Jersey Car Dealership Under Fire (CBS 3 Philadelphia)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications. Digg Facebook Stumble It! Several months, if not two solid years of consumer complaints about alleged deceptive and dishonest practices have apparently caught up with Chevy 73. Web sites like “Ripoff Reports” warn others about Chevy 73 with words like ‘Cheats, lies, false ads, bait & switch, and worst car buying experience ever. He told CBS3 back in November that Chevy 73 never paid for his September trade-in. Chevy 73 settled a civil lawsuit with the State Division of Consumer Affairs in December 2007 for not telling the truth about pre-owned vehicle history and misrepresenting credit approval for loans. read more

(Car Auction News) Drive into the nifty fifties (Sun-Sentinel)

Friday, January 30th, 2009

The event will kick off the opening of RM Auctions’ weekend, Collector Cars of Fort Lauderdale. The evening will begin with a cocktail hour in a room with glass windows overlooking 400 collector cars. Guests will then proceed to the RM Car Auction area where they will dine and dance among the collector cars. Some celebrity cars at the auction include two custom Mustangs built for Sonny and Cher by George “King of the Kustomizers” Barris. A ticket to Wheels also includes admission to the RM Car Auction for the weekend. Should schools be required to teach kids about condoms and other contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade? read more

Buying A Car At Auction (The Motley Fool)(Car Auction News)

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

It auctions vehicles on behalf of former owners such as car hire companies such as Lex Leasing, LLoyds TSB Autolease, and Pendragon — names familiar to anybody with a company car, for instance. You can always restrict yourself to buying a car no older than, say, two years, further minimising the risk of buying a faulty car. At British Car Auctions, a storage fee of Ā£17 + VAT is chargeable for each day or part-day the vehicle remains uncollected. Pick an example of the sort of car that you might be interested in, and follow it through from the compound to the hammer-drop — this is your opportunity to listen to the carās engine, ask the driver any questions, and generally make a judgement about whether you would feel happy to bid on the vehicle. And take your spouse or partner, if the car is for them — itās a little too late to discover they donāt like mustard-yellow when the car is sitting on the drive! None of the cars he has purchased at auction had any faults or defects, and his wife still mourns the loss of her favourite one — a mustard-yellow Mazda 323, bought at an auction in Leeds many years ago, having done 14,000 miles under one careful lady owner. read more