What’s an appropriate course of action here?
They took the path to least resistance. It doesn’t make it right, but you need to ask yourself if it’s worth the unending calls from likely their corporate office, an angry dealer, and the finance company. If you want to fight that fight, good on you for it. If not, can understand the desire to not want it to be your problem since you were not harmed. Make no mistake… that was wrong.
Same way you’d react to someone forging your signature on a check.
FTFY.
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I guess I’m not going to make a big deal out of it, but will call the dealer and tell the finance manager it’s not ok to keep him in shape.
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When signing paperwork at a dealership, one of the many documents you may be asked to sign is a limited power of attorney. I’m not saying that they should have taken the liberty to do so but my best guess is that since there was no material change that would have a negative effect or give you pause that they elected to use their power of attorney in order to fix whatever may have caused the holdup in contract funding.
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Yeah that’s what my first thought was too;) among a bunch of documents I might have signed a power of attorney to get me a license plate etc., but does it really extend to singing new contracts if previous one failed to fund at no fault of my own?
I don’t even think there was any malicious intent by the dealer he might have failed to file for some reason and missed the window accidentally, I would assume no one would gamble on getting better or worse incentives next month etc.
I’m not a lawyer but I would say that it shouldn’t, unless it explicitly said so. That doesn’t mean that they didn’t view it that way somehow. They probably should have reached out to you regardless.
Make sense to me thanks for the opinion. Like I said no beef really here to go over other than overstepping reasonable boundaries.
How would you have felt if the dealer re-wrote the deal to pocket some incentive you would have otherwise been entitled to receive? Not saying it happens…
Yeah that will really prevent it from happening again. /s
Btw this OP is now facing $1,200 in lease-end charges because of the dealership’s switcheroo
Yes, this is happening to me.
If something is different during lease turn in.
BMW won’t help you and say that dealers are independent
BMWFS won’t help you because dealers are independent
There is nothing that you can do about the forgery from BMW perspective and they won’t help you. You can file a lawsuit where you will drain your time/energy.
You don’t necessarily have to pursue civil litigation.
Report them and let them face criminal prosecution or loss of license.
Nothing happened to the dealer who did this to me. The finance Manager(Actual forger) is still working for them.
I did report them. I did spoke to couple attorneys and they said nothing can be done about it. However, I did find an attorney who was working on a case againt the same dealership as there were doing this often. I tried to hep his case with my testimonial but not sure what came out of that.
I did a bit of a digging and I believe the power of attorney I signed might have entitled them to correct financial paperwork related to car purchase on my behalf in case there is some sort of mistake, typo, etc. I don’t have a copy but google says it’s typical to have such language included. I don’t know the real reason why initial deal did not fund. Since I am not harmed, I would barely have a case. In theory I can try voiding the whole contract but it’s not my intention.
Thanks everyone.
Who did you report them to?
OP answered his own question two posts above (or found the answer he had from the get go).
Should be marked as “solved” and closed.
Don’t remember but some local authority.
Especially since this is a Nissan