Questionable Sales Tactic by Lazydays

Deano56 wrote:

JALLEN4 wrote:

rockhillmanor wrote:
They passed laws years ago to stop that practice.

If a dealership 'advertises' a vehicle and it is not 'physically' on their lot (doesn't matter if they say coming soon)it is now against the law to do so. It was called bait and switch with a fictitious vehicle.

If you take the advertisement and the listed vehicle stock number in the ad and report them you can make them give you that vehicle or comparable one for that exact sales price and/or they can loose their license also.

Could you possibly clarify that statement with a source. Forty years in the business and never knew it was somehow illegal to advertise an incoming unit.

would like to see that in writing also, if its not law it sure should be. A few things could happen before it arrives at the dealer or it might never make it's way there.

There are in fact laws about bait and switch techniques, but they would vary from state to state, and I don't think they are anywhere near as strict as the person here claims. Most of them do deal with advertising and require language that you often see such as "One at this price." Car dealers used to run ads for new vehicles and really low prices and the ads would give the impression that all models of that car were at that price. People would arrive at the dealer to find that vehicle was already sold, but they had plenty more at a slightly higher price. The bait and switch laws make them do things like indicate how many they have and do things like put the last five digits of the VIN in the ad so that it can be verified that they really did have a vehicle at that price and really sold it at that price.