Haha. I’m glad it worked out. Also, kudos to the GM for stepping up.
Glad it worked out in the end but your friend’s actions were something akin to a temper tantrum for what could have been an honest mistake on the dealer’s part.
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Hey, if your cell phone company makes and honest mistake on your bill this month and charges you an extra $50, are you gonna let them keep the $50 because it was an honest mistake?
You are totally off. No one charged him any extra money - he paid what he agreed to pay. More like selling you a totally new, but returned phone as “new” and then giving you a service credit for 3 months after you brought it up.
My cell phone bill is a fixed cost month-to-month so yes I would call and question if it was anything other than what I expect. There’s no question that is completely different from negotiating the sale on the price of a car
As far as we know there are no other padded cost associated with this deal so it wasnt a case of being negligently overcharged. The OPs friend agreed to a deal and then had buyer’s remorse when he realized he may have been able to get more off.
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I don’t see any buyer’s remorse here. Instead, I see seller’s remorse, since the dealer quickly agreed to forego about $5,000 in payments. BMW was sued in the past for selling demo cars as new, and had to pay millions in settlement. http://www.autonews.com/article/20150720/LEGALFILE/307209991/bmw-settles-suit-over-demo-vehicle-warranties
The buyer did not get what he was supposed to get - a new car with full warranty/free service. Plus, for such an expensive car, I suspect it might have a lower value on resale, since it would show up on Carfax as having been sold/leased twice at this point.
Or the dealer simply felt it was easier to make the issue go away by agreeing to compensate the buyer versus getting into a protracted argument…fielder’s choice. No one here really knows what happened and we could debate all day on whether it was dealer impropriety, whether there is less warranty if he buys at lease end, or whether it was someone whose ego was bruised because they didn’t get pricing that is in line with a demo. It worked out in the seller’s favor and he can hopefully now start enjoying a fantastic vehicle.
Demos I sure as hell are titled. At least here in Florida. How do you think they get license plates issue to them?
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A car can be punched with the manufacturer as a demo and not actually be used as one or titled. Usually there are incentives attached for doing so, otherwise why start the warranty on a new car?
Dealers don’t have to title a car to put a plate on it. If that were the case, every car test driven that a dealer slapped a plate on would need titled too.
We are talking about two different things here. An unsold new or used car sitting on the lot can be test driven. They don’t have titles that’s why the dealers do slap on one of their dealer plates. However a car that has been titled by the dealer rather it be a demo, an exec you car, or whatever route you choose to call it is a change of ownership. If the car in this example has been titled by the dealer Then he will be the second owner. In no way am I trying to say that any new car in the lot that gets test driven has to be titled that’s a bit absurd. Also in most states is a dealer indicates that the car is “new“ but actually has been titled to anyone, then it is a “used“ car. If that is the case here the dealer has knowingly or unknowingly committed fraud. If the individual is trying to seek Some financial remedy for this that’s up to him. If the dealer has committed fraud he should be reporting it to local law-enforcement. Also I’m quite sure that BMWNA would not be happy, if this is the case. And without seeing the registration records, for me, that’s a big “if”.
Yes/No, the dealership ‘owning’ the car doesn’t count as having an owner. If you look at the carfax of most loaner cars, they will be 0 owner.
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I don’t think there’s a snowball’s chance that car was already titled (and registered).
I do not know anything about the M6 here specifically, but it has been reported that BMW has been encouraging its dealer to buy cars. If the dealer buys the car, I assume it would be titled and registered.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-18/bmw-buoyed-u-s-sales-numbers-by-paying-dealers-to-buy-loaners
At the end of the day, none of it really matters anymore. We’re all speculating and weren’t there. The buyer was taken care of by the dealer to his satisfaction, so it doesn’t really matter at this point if it was titled or not, punched, new, used, salvage, repainted, etc. The dealer isn’t going to make any further concessions at this point. Case closed.
Yeah, closed…
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