🚘 Flex Almost Bought A Recalled Car 🚘

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Flex almost got scammed at the car yard. 

She lives to tell the tale on today's bonus episode 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Flex and Frooms Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex
and Frooms catch Up podcast. One of my favorite Internet hobbies.
It's not just watching content but living in the comments.
Seeing how people are just responding to stuff on the
internet unprovoked really interests me. I read a lot of
news and a lot of news articles and the same
thing comes up where the comment's like, oh my god,

(00:23):
how could this person do this thing? What would drive
someone to do something so terrible? And it reminded me
of a situation a couple of years ago, maybe like
three years ago. I was trying to buy a used
car and being the big girl that I am, the
one who insists on doing everything by themselves, I thought
I'd go alone. Yeah, I love that. I thought I
go alone. I now know better, but you know here

(00:45):
we are. So I went there, and I'm I also
want to do things alone, and I love to do
things as soon as I want to do them. And
so when I went to this used car dealership, I
wanted to drive home today with a car not going
to happen. It's not going to happen. Why because it
takes time, Like there's so much paperwork, and like, did
you want one on the lot. It needs to get
red jo needs to get warranty, he needs to have

(01:06):
a detail, et cetera. Yeah, well the ones that I
was looking at came with Reggio and warranty and I
was paying cash, so it's good to go. It was
good to go. So it was well, here's the thing.
So I'm looking around. I'm looking around and I come
across this car brand that will not be named, and
the price was okay. And I had texted my friend
at a time who had some experience working at an

(01:29):
automotive startup, so she had some like residual car based knowledge,
and she was like, m why do I know that
brand name? Like what year is that car? And I
was like, oh, like a twenty fourteen. She's like, something's clicking.
And so anyway, I'm talking to this used car salesman
and I'm like, yeah, like I want it. But I'm
talking to my friend has experience in cars, and she's

(01:50):
saying that like something like something's not clicking for her.
And he's doing the thing he does, you know, this
is the best that we can get. You get it today,
like la la lave you pay cash, will take off
this much money you know, get it. Now, we've done
all the background checks. It's perfect, it's good to go.
There's nothing wrong with it. So now I go back
to my friend and she's like, I swear that this
is the car that had the recall issue because it

(02:10):
had the faulty breaks and faulty power steering. And I
was like, what what do you mean this guy says
it's fine. She was like, I just think you should
get a pre purchase inspection. If you really want this
car so badly and you you love it so badly, literally,
wait one day, get an urgent pre purchase inspection. It'll
cost you. And who does that? An independent, an independent

(02:30):
person I think it's government businesses as well, but independent
to the used car dealership. And so they come in,
they'll inspect the car for you, give you this huge
report about everything. They can see whether or not the
car's been crashed before, and if they've detailed it, they
look at the engine, all of this stuff, just real stuff.
It was like four hundred dollars, was like, and then
in zil and I want it now. She's like, I'm
telling you something's off about this car. Oh, I hit

(02:54):
up this business for a pre purchase inspection. I say,
am in a rash, I want up tomorrow, Like, we
can do it today if you want. I say yeah.
I go to the car salesman. I'm like, they'll come today.
He's like, oh, better, they'll come tomorrow. I was like, okay, cool,
they'll come tomorrow. I'll come tomorrow afternoon. So they go
do the inspection in the morning, and then I get
a bunch of miscalls. I'm like, what is that. I
get emails Urgent, Urgent, open this email. I get text

(03:17):
if you were Lilian and you are the person who
booked for a pre purchased inspection, I need you to
call me back asap. This person's freaking out. So now
I'm freaking out. I call this guy back. He's like,
whatever you do, do not get that car. Not only
has it been recalled for faulty power searing, faulty break,
this car has an engine problem, had leaking fluid. It's

(03:38):
already been total before all of this stuff came out.
I was like what He's like, I promise you. He's like,
he's like, I hear your voice. Now you're remid me like,
you could be my daughter. She's your age as well.
I know she's super enthusiastic. La la la, And then
he just wanted to this whole spiel and he was like,
you should have had someone go in there with you.
These things are not saved. People do anything to make

(03:58):
a sale. They don't care about your well be And
I at the time, I was like, I just want
a car, and so I call the car dealership. I'm like,
I'm not getting the car. And this man was like,
this pre perchaing inspectrum guy is trying to scam you.
They've already taken four hundred dollars for me, what else
would they take from me? I was like, this is
all too much anyway, So I started my own research.
Not only is this pre purchase inspection guy so right,

(04:19):
but this guy could not see me as a person.
He could only see me as a sale so much
so that God for Beds something happened to me, there'd
be no remorse because even when he sent him the
report as well, he's like, yeah, they're taking you for
a ride. I said, even with the evidence, you were
trying to do a fast one on me. What time
of the month was it? What time of the month, like,

(04:42):
what what date was it? On the month. Oh babe,
I don't know. It was years ago. If it's late
in the month, they're gonna be desperate. Yeah, but this
is not this is this is not you. Worry you.
You started to think about, like where where does this
rhetoric come from that you shouldn't trust to use card deals?
And I was like, what are you guys talking about? Like,

(05:03):
let's just like, don't paint everyone with the same brushstroke.
Do it? Paint everyone with the same brushstroke for your
safety if you need to anyway, wild based on that
experience buying you every time, and the price is for
used cars in twenty twenty three. It's been bad since COVID,
but it's really bad now. You've been listening to The
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