If you are shopping for a Caldina Wagon or a Toyota Cresta for sale you may want to avoid using Craigslist to buy your vehicle from. The popular advertising site has been having some issues with car dealers going on there and advertising cars as private sellers so that they can avoid the laws and rules of the Federal Trade Commission when it comes to selling used cars. This is a scam and many unsuspecting consumers have already been caught and disappointed by this nasty type of trap.
The sad part about the whole thing is that most consumers have no idea that they are buying their Toyota Caldina Wagon or Toyota Cresta for sale from a dealership until it is too late. Here is a rundown on how these dealers are getting away with it:
* You are searching Craigslist for a used car and you find an ad that sparks your interest. You call the number listed to see the Japanese vehicle.
* You meet the seller at a private residence and they tell you all about the car and why they are selling it without ever revealing to you that they are a car dealer.
* They show you a used car history report so that you can see what is up with the car and you tell the seller that you are going to have an independent inspection done on it anyway. They will agree because so far nothing has changed hands that shows you they are a dealer. The history report while accurate will be from before the dealer bought the car.
* The inspection on the car is fine and you decide to purchase the car from the seller. The seller offers to register the car for you, and when you receive all of the final paperwork it is then revealed that the car was sold by a used car dealer.
Used car dealers are doing this in order to keep from having to post everything the Federal Trade Commission’s Used Car Rule requires for every car they are selling. They are required to post a Buyers Guide for every used car they sell that contains a lot of information, making the used car dealer simply just lazy. A private seller is not covered under the Used Car Rule and they do not have to provide any form of implied warranty. The sale will be ﾔas isﾕ which means if anything happens to the car after you bought it, you are basically just out of luck.