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From: Marquis Grove <infosyssec@y...>
Date: Fri Jan 31, 2003  12:35 pm
Subject: Re: [ASC McLaren ] 85 Ebay ASC 19k miles, capri vert

Body:
If I sell to you a genuine McLaren spoiler for $300 and you find out later that
it was not a
McLaren spoiler at all that you purchased, but in fact a standard issue $129
Mustang spoiler..
would you not try to either return the goods and get a refund or would you
silently accept the
fact that you paid a higher then market price because you were lead to believe
the item was a rare
and limited McLaren spoiler. No one likes to be made a sucker.

Misrepresentation of merchandise is unfortunately an all too common occurence
in our society, that
attempts to take advantage of the uninformed. The laws are there to protect
the consumer when a
swindle takes place.

With eBay the purchaser is usually purchasing the vehicle at a distance from
the car itself. They
take the information provided in the auction description as being something
that they can base
their opinion on whether to bid or not to bid on a vehicle. They do not have
the opportunity to
visit the vehicle or in that case examine the vehicle's registration papers.

Similarly, not all people out there are 'hip' to the fact that there are
'Capri' models and
'Mustang' models. We can just chalk them up to the ill-informed part of
society.

The misrepresentation of a vehicle, as being a Ford Mustang as compared to a
Mercury Capri,
without any further clarification in the ad rectifying the 'similarity' of the
vehicle, hopes to
deceive the uninformed who are not necessarily aware that there were 'Capri'
models as compared to
'Mustang' models.

So yes, it is very possible that a purchaser of that vehicle may be falsely
mislead into believing
he has purchased a 'Mustang'. And although he may be very thrilled to learn
that his purchase
turns out to in fact be a 'Capri' it is not what he negotiated or purchased.

So the bottom line to this tale is not to advocate litigation, but to wonder
why some of these
advertisers clearly persist in falsely representing the vehicles as Mustangs
when they are Capris.

Marq
--- Todd Smith <todd_smith@y...> wrote:
>
> sue? are you an attorney? please sir, we don't need another frivolous
movement of idiocy
> clogging our courts. this mornings thread is much ado about nothing.
someone is trying to
> bring their car to market and help the uneducated public reach it to consider
it. nobody is
> going to go away from the final transaction not knowing what they got.
furthermore, the
> resultant buyer will probably be grateful that they wer able to find such a
nice car and we will
> all benefit by higher market prices for our cars.
> todd, 84 #2
> Marquis Grove <infosyssec@y...> wrote:I think the sad point in this
advert is that it is
> supposedly a representative of a 'Collector'
> who is selling this car off... Surely a 'collector' wouldn't have mislead his
'agent' by telling
> him " This Low Mileage Convertible Ford Mustang McClaren is being sold from a
Car Collectors
> Private Collection.. "
>
> But I think the lesson we have seen over the past while is that to command
the bucks you have to
> tell the audience that the car is a Mustang to catch their attention. Then
you can explain it
> to
> them afterwards that ' it is really a McLaren Mercury Capri - but they are
almost identical to a
> McLaren Ford Mustang... :) Hmmmm... almost a bit of a bait and switch eh ?
Maybe one of these
> buyers should sue them after they buy it when it turns out that it wasn't a
McLaren Ford Mustang
> that they were sold...
>
> Marq
>
> --- "negusm <negusm@y...>" <negusm@y...> wrote:
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
> > ViewItem&item=2401350413&category=6236
> >
> > Yet another seller claiming its a Mustang.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> >
>
>
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	Replies	Name/Email	Yahoo! ID	Date	Size
1978	Re: 85 Ebay ASC 19k miles, capri vert	Todd Smith	ascmclaren84_2	Sat  2/1/2003	14 KB
1979	Re: 85 Ebay ASC 19k miles, capri vert	Sandy Block <cigarsandy@c...>	cigarsandy	Sat  2/1/2003	8 KB
1980	Re: 85 Ebay ASC 19k miles, capri vert	Todd Smith	ascmclaren84_2	Sat  2/1/2003	17 KB
1985	Re: 85 Ebay ASC 19k miles, capri vert	gemellifamily <jgemelli@o...>	gemellifamily	Sat  2/1/2003	10 KB
1986	Re: 85 Ebay ASC 19k miles, capri vert	Sandy Block <cigarsandy@c...>	cigarsandy	Sat  2/1/2003	12 KB
1987	Re: 85 Ebay ASC 19k miles, capri vert	negusm <negusm@y...>	negusm	Sun  2/2/2003	13 KB
1988	Re: 85 Ebay ASC 19k miles, capri vert	Sandy Block <cigarsandy@c...>	cigarsandy	Sun  2/2/2003	14 KB
1989	Re: 85 Ebay ASC 19k miles, capri vert	negusm <negusm@y...>	negusm	Mon  2/3/2003	15 KB