Straight up BS.

When I worked as a lot boy over 20 years ago at a Toyota dealership, the salesmen knew when cars that were already spoken for were coming & would be out on the lot to take the car the moment it came off the carrier (or if it was hot out would have me take it directly to the detailer to start the process). This whole…

It’s incompetence, not an unacceptable mistake. Either both dealerships are run by people who shouldn’t be running dealerships or they knowingly sold trucks that were special ordered for other customers.

Really? Because there are TONS of stories of people getting cold feet and then having major issues getting their deposit back either at all or in a timely manner.

Or, like in the cast of my 2019 Forester with like 40,000 miles on it, they pull the engine out to replace the power steering pump and then end up breaking it beyond the point of repair and then have to buy it back from me.  Man I love dealerships. 

But a deposit is securing my first right to ownership, no? The dealer took a deposit, which is funds in exchange for agreeing that the truck in question is mine to purchase when it arrives and is ready to be sold, and then didn’t honor it? Why did it take my money then? Just a shitty 0% interest bank account? 

The small details doesn’t matter the owners name is on the sign and the bucks stops there. Even if its a mistake does not make it excusable business practice. 

Then when you bring it for service they forget fasteners and damage the interior.

Without dealerships, who would help you have the vehicle you ordered sold out from under you? s/

Man, I am sure glad that the dealership model is protected by state laws. They provide such great value.

If they would put the RAV4 prime drivetrain in the cx-50 that would be a darn near perfect car

Inevitable.

Not really surprising. They only offered it in California and the range was really short. I like Mazda products, but this one just didn’t make a lot of sense in the North American market. They do need to get a move on with the PHEVs; those have been promised for a while and have been slow to materialize. 

These sound like the people who rail against Credit Cards as unnecessary and a sign of poor financial management then they go and use their debit cards for everything with no protection. 

Evidently, these fools weren’t even using a credit card, but a debit card. Which has FAR fewer protections. And not only have more than one card, make sure they are from different BANKS. I had all three of my Citibank credit cards hacked once when I was thousands of miles from home, thankfully I had a couple Chase…

Yes, it’s pretty egregious that Uber doesn’t have exception processing in place for this. This should have immediately gone to a human for review, but how can you disrupt the industry if you’re going have a bunch of humans just sitting around on the payroll?

This is one of the myriad reasons I carry a backup credit card. 

100% Uber’s fault. The bank is not initiating the transaction. Uber processed the transaction on your card, and the Bank is only posting what Uber told them to post.

The charge should have never went through in the first place, especially since it should have been suspicious that ANY Uber ride would be 30K$...In fact spending 30K in one sitting should have been a red flag before it even reached the account unless the couple normally spends that amount.

The big question is: