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Well, friend, I can understand your example of a spoiler. If I'm a thousand miles away, maybe I can't tell the difference. I don't think it applies to a car. To transfer a car, one must transfer a title. The documentation required will create full disclosure at some point. Nobody is going to be duped in this procedure. At worst, someone might be inconvenienced. Even that is not very likely.
I could be wrong, but I anticipate that the seller will explain the details to each caller. It will come up in the process, so why risk blowing a deal. It would not make sense. I agree with the seller in explaining it to the mass market in terms they will understand, as long as he is forthright in the explanation with callers. I also agree with you that it would have been better if he had differentiated in the body copy of the ad. Maybe ebay would have barred the ad, though.
I tried to find the ad, but could not. I found the 88, but not the 85. Oh well, much ado about nothing. Otherwise, thank you for all your good posts. I enjoy this board very much. Pardon my contentiousness, but I rail at people who want to sue about bullshit stuff. Anyway, take care and I'll look forward to more of your great posts.
Todd
Marquis Grove <infosyssec@yahoo.com> wrote:
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@yahoo.com> 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@yahoo.com> 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@yahoo.com>" <negusm@yahoo.com> 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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