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The old dinosaurs of the retail world need to realize things can't be brushed under the rug anymore. |
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BUT it has happened with other dealers on our side of the sand. Bad publicity, legal costs and when it trickles down the line the the head office they can simply pull the plug and stop supporting there dealer....it has been done, dealer in Kelowna my dad use to work at had a similar issue happen to it. |
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Just like Budget Brake and Muffler's lot boy crashed a BCBimmer member's e36 M3. By the book that's what shop insurance is for. |
What ever happened with that e36? If someone crashed mine I'd take out as many of their organs as was needed to get me up to 20k. Posted via RS Mobile |
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Slanted for sympathy or not, every move the dealer makes now is just making them look worse to the public at large (most of whom are not automotive investment experts and lawyers, like on RS) and hurting their reputation with those who would normally be the bread and butter of their business. |
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For AT MOST $15k (possibly even less) the dealer would have gotten a little bit of good local exposure, a few pats on the back on their FB page, maybe a couple of "big deal, it's the least they should have done"... and life would have gone on for everyone involved... For the lack of that $15k the dealer is now a world-wide pariah, and thanks to the permanency of the Internet, that thread will never go away and will probably still be referenced now and then for years to come. When people use the phrase "they'll never live it down"... this is what they're talking about. |
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soon it'll end up on urbandictionary. "dude you totally got 1SC'd!" first state chevy: -fucking people over -getting fucked over something to that liking :fullofwin: |
guys back on the first page saying they should just get him a 2012, doesnt "replacement" insurance work in such a way that if the car is written off you are getting the newest model in the most comparable trim as possible? dont know if they have replacement insurance in the states, nor on such a car, but i know multiple people who've gotten brand new body style vehicles for writing off their previous gens Also, if i was this guy and it was dragging out this long i'd just go on an all out media offensive, whether it be to hire homeless people to hold signs out front of the dealer telling the story, taking out huge ad's in the local paper, etc. All this damage was 1000000% cause of a 3rd party who had no business even touching the car, he deserves the very same car in the very same condition and if that isnt possible then he deserves a better condition vehicle than he had. Situations like this i kind of refer so situations where whether it be friends, family, or employee's of the company i work with damage somthing, or damage a vehicle etc. I remember one time at work a guy broke one of my window visors, the thing may or may not have been cracked before but it was still together, he leans on it and breaks it.. I say uhhhh... ok you gonna pay for that? immediately the skid is like hah youre joking right? me: Oh sorry youre right, i like it BETTER this way than the way it was before.. :rukiddingme: |
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Well, it looks like the dealership has missed the time to make things right. Their reputation on Internet is completely destroyed. Just searching the name of the dealer brings up related articles by the third result. |
Someone made a very important distinction above, and that is that the US and Canadian Legal systems work very differently. In Canada you can sue for damages, and you are to prove exactly how much someone else's negligence or fraudulence cost you then you are reimbursed for exactly that amount, nothing more nothing less. It all comes down to what you can prove your amount of losses added up to being. It is extremely rare to be awarded punitive damages in Canada. So much so that it isn't even worth talking about (for the unitiated, punitive damages are where the court purposefully awards a much larger settlement to the wronged party, in order to punish the guilty party so they do not do something so stupid in the future). In the US punitive damages are much more common and I can most definitely see them being awarded if this case ever ended up making it into the courts. Basically, in Canada it would be very difficult for the couple to try and recoup any costs above that $44k assessment amount; however, in the US it is much more common in cases like these that the couple would see what some may call a "windfall" from an event like this. There are many documented cases like this in the states which have seen rather large settlement amounts: most notably the incident where the lady sued McDonalds for burning herself with a cup of their coffee. (this being why all hot drinks now have the warning that says "Caution contents are hot".) |
Yes... super important... since literally everyone in this thread was wondering what would happen if this dealership were to be transplanted to Canada and the entire story changed :badpokerface: |
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Had all my receipts and everything too and ICBC didnt give me an extra dime. |
I don't get why this guy is doing all the fighting... what is he expecting to get from this? I get it's a shitty situation, but that's why you have insurance. If he doesn't have replacement cost coverage on the car, his insurance would pay him the actual cash value of the vehicle at the time of the loss. He can then pay off his loan and find another car to finance. The insurance company will then go after the dealership and settle with them or their liability insurer. The guy's insurance rates wouldn't be affected since it would be considered a comprehensive claim... As far as claiming that a ZL1 is a collectible car and he was going to sell it for his grand daughter's education or whatever... he should have kept his 69 SS... |
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I am trying to make it painfully obvious that this is not the case in the USA. In the US it is far more common for the law to punish someone (especially a decently sized company) to make sure that they get the message that whatever crime they committed was a serious thing and that they shouldn't ever do something like that again. Yes Soundy, this only matters if the case goes to trial, but it seems very likely the couple may be in this for the long haul considering the offers they have rejected so far from the dealership. |
At this point as it gains momentum lawyers are going to be knocking down the couples door offering to do it for free if they don't win it for them, as its so in the bag. Not to mention the publicity. |
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