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Group: aus.cars · Group Profile
Author: NoddyNoddy Date: May 16, 2008 20:58
> Has anyone else noticed the Suzuki car ads in the newspaper claiming
> driveaway prices and then you read the fine print at the bottom and it
> says "plus $2200 dealer delivery"
If they advertise a price as "drive away", then that's the price you should
pay to drive it out the door. You're well within your legal rights to walk
into a dealer, plonk down the "drive away" price and collect a new car.
> I don't know where they went to school but that is not a drive away price
> and either the ACCC is asleep at the wheel or no one has told them.
They may be onto it right now for all you know.
> I plan to remedy that one on Monday.
Good for you.
> How do the car makers continually get away with anything and if I was to
> advertise a price that was in anyway not true they would be on me like a
> ton of bricks.
Only if someone complained.
There'd be *hundreds* of businesses doing things that are illegal as far as
trading practices go every day, be it intentionally or accidentally, and the
only reason they continue to do so is because the public, by and large,
aren't aware that they're not supposed to be doing it.
Organisations like the ACCC have a limited ability with regards to
monitoring. They don't have the capacity sit around and watch every business
activity that takes place on a daily basis to ensure it's being done by the
book. They act in response to complaints rather than monitor the market
themselves, and the best way to get them into gear on an issue is to draw
their attention to it.
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Regards,
Noddy.
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