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I had a similar problem with my Dad before he died......

He wanted a 4WD Mule to ride around his place in....go to the mailbox and such.

Well the mailbox was only 50 ft from the front door. He goes to a tractor dealer in town and starts the process of buying a $6000 4WD glorified golf cart. I had to call the dealer and explain that I would be returning the Mule if they sold it to Dad. And if he used it and got hurt, I was giving them fair warning that they would be responsible for his safety.

At the time I lived 70 miles away.......I got my brother involved and the dealer made up some sort of excuse to keep from selling it to him that day. Dad's doctor got involved and his drivers license was taken away.

The point is the only thing that mattered with them was the sale.

I take a lot of senior groups all over the country and I will always advise a client as to whether they should go on a specific trip. Especially if I felt they were limited in their mobility. It's the right thing to do. I It's more important than the sale........In the long run your clients appreciate your caring about their well being.

posted by Corbin_Dallas on December 28, 2005 at 4:58 AM | link to this | reply

CD

Great...now they are strong arming the elderly....what next? The good news is there are laws to protect this man, but who in their right mind would do that to someone to begin with.......GREED!!!

posted by Offy on December 28, 2005 at 1:17 AM | link to this | reply

Corbin Dallas

Hi.. It upsets me to hear stories like this but I know they happen. The dealership is completely in the wrong and should be called on to own up to what they've done. I have to wonder how a 82 yr. old person with demensia is allowed to drive. Good Post.. People need to be aware of companies without ethics.

posted by BrightIrish on December 27, 2005 at 9:50 PM | link to this | reply

Corbin, this adds a whole new meaning to the phrase let the buyer beware

posted by kingmi on December 27, 2005 at 9:05 PM | link to this | reply

CD,

I agree with you a 100 per cent, these guys at Lithia Ford are thugs, and should be made to pay big time! I thought they had money enough not to cheat an 82-year-old with dementia!!!!!!!!!

posted by Meringue on December 27, 2005 at 5:28 PM | link to this | reply

You must be smoking.....

The same stuff as Bud.......

I was criticizing the dealership.....sorry that the fight you and Bud are looking for is non-existent. I'll edit it for you so it will be clearer

What this dealership did is reprehensible...and I hope the old man's lawyers take them to the cleaners....

These worms quickly sold the SUV...when they knew they were wrong. My point is that these shenanigans are going to cost the parent company big bucks as far as their reputation is concerned.

Sorry, but as they say around here...you guys don't have a dog in this fight.....because there's no fight.

posted by Corbin_Dallas on December 27, 2005 at 3:08 PM | link to this | reply

corbin--

So what's your point? Should the old man have had the "personal responsibility" not to have made the deal in the first place? Would everyone define unconscionable the same way. From the constant jousting between "conservatives" and "liberals" here, one would tend to doubt that. If this went to the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roberts probably would rule in favor of Lithia because he has no preconceptions that the poor little guy is always the victim.

posted by Hemlocker on December 27, 2005 at 2:56 PM | link to this | reply

On a fishing expedition, Bud?

Sorry....I'm not taking your bait....

Thank you for stopping by, though...

Have a Happy New Year!

posted by Corbin_Dallas on December 27, 2005 at 1:40 PM | link to this | reply

Ah here we have the splitting of hairs again and of judging of innocence

You are judging the Dealership to be innoccent and it is the old man and his legal cohorts are in the wrong.

The problem lies not in how the dealership wishes to treat him now that they have been caught at selling to the mentally incompetent and his not accepting their offerings but what happened to begin with. It is always the way of the myopic to look at a small part of a problem and to deny the underlying causes.

The problem lies with their willingness to indulge in this unfair arm twisting in the first place.

I hope that they will pay a hefty price for what they do to a lesser extent daily and get away with.

The problem with most of your businessess is that they are not based on ehtical foundations and only through hefty court settlements adhere to a semblance of fair play.

I've sold cars and understand how meallable a person of normal intelligence can be in the hands of a skilled salesman. There is no way a salesman could not know that this man was mentally incopetent. I've also, on ethics let my total investmaent of $20,000.00 evaporate as I went public with my product's dangers. Take a look at me assembling it in the pics of the Raven on www.powerplanes.com . The company formerly owned by my former friend went tits up here in North America because I went public. I will not make money on lies and if I made a mistake I bear the cost rather than kill people.

The dealership would have figured that if this guy didn't like the deal and took legal action that it could have simply taken the deal back, or if the deal stood, so much the better. It sure looked like a win win situation to begin with for the manager.

Every once in a while they try this unethical shit on the wrong guy and so must take the lumps that come with getting caught.

What is your involvement, oh great judge of what is right and wrong, Corbin? Do you own stock in this unethical corporation or is it just your self righteousness that you wish to exercise?