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If the car dealer?s employee is willing to steal from the company that pays him, what makes you think they won?t steal from you too?
Today we start a 5 part series of true stories of car dealers and their employees. Employees who were caught stealing from the dealership in one way or another. From a salesman in Vermont to a million dollar thief in Southern California and a lot of stops in between. But first, Vermont...
In the car sales business a new salesperson is called a green pea but, as Bennington Subaru found out, some green peas are rotten. Bennington Subaru hired a young salesman named Benjamin Hammic. He didn?t know much about selling cars but he was energetic and wanted to learn.
If they had checked him out carefully, the general manager might have found out that he was on the lam from a New York court and under sentence from a Connecticut court. Hammic was a two time loser looking for chance number 3. And he found it at Bennington Subaru, where they apparently don't ask a lot of questions before hiring a salesman (or maybe they do).
On his second day at the dealership he was studying Subaru model information when he took a break and walked off the job. Well, that?s not entirely accurate. It?s more like he drove off. In a nice brand new car. After awhile management must have started thinking it was a pretty long break because Hammic never came back.
A week later the stolen car was recovered while being driven by three kids in Massachusetts. As for Hammic, he called in from Connecticut and said he had just borrowed the car and someone had stolen it from him. Yeah, right.
You have to wonder how a guy with a warrant and a conviction could end up getting hired in the first place. Well, maybe the manager thought he just had ?the right stuff.? They probably figured he?d steal alright, just from customers when they came to buy a car and not from the dealership itself.
If a car dealer is willing to hire convicts, crooks and thieves, it shouldn?t surprise you when you realize they stole your trade in on the paperwork, ripped you off on the Gap insurance cost, or packed your deal with window etching that you didn?t know you were getting either. After all, who is better to steal from customers than a thief? Only thing here is the thief stole from the car dealer first. Usually they pay them good enough to keep the thievin? on the retail end ? that?s your end and it can cost you money, so watch out!
If you?re the victim of a car dealer?s fraud, call us. We go after car dealers (and manufacturers) every day. It?s what we do.
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If the car dealer?s employee is willing to steal from the company that pays him, what makes you think they won?t steal from you too?
Today we start a 5 part series of true stories of car dealers and their employees. Employees who were caught stealing from the dealership in one way or another. From a salesman in Vermont to a million dollar thief in Southern California and a lot of stops in between. But first, Vermont...
In the car sales business a new salesperson is called a green pea but, as Bennington Subaru found out, some green peas are rotten. Bennington Subaru hired a young salesman named Benjamin Hammic. He didn?t know much about selling cars but he was energetic and wanted to learn.
If they had checked him out carefully, the general manager might have found out that he was on the lam from a New York court and under sentence from a Connecticut court. Hammic was a two time loser looking for chance number 3. And he found it at Bennington Subaru, where they apparently don't ask a lot of questions before hiring a salesman (or maybe they do).
On his second day at the dealership he was studying Subaru model information when he took a break and walked off the job. Well, that?s not entirely accurate. It?s more like he drove off. In a nice brand new car. After awhile management must have started thinking it was a pretty long break because Hammic never came back.
A week later the stolen car was recovered while being driven by three kids in Massachusetts. As for Hammic, he called in from Connecticut and said he had just borrowed the car and someone had stolen it from him. Yeah, right.
You have to wonder how a guy with a warrant and a conviction could end up getting hired in the first place. Well, maybe the manager thought he just had ?the right stuff.? They probably figured he?d steal alright, just from customers when they came to buy a car and not from the dealership itself.
If a car dealer is willing to hire convicts, crooks and thieves, it shouldn?t surprise you when you realize they stole your trade in on the paperwork, ripped you off on the Gap insurance cost, or packed your deal with window etching that you didn?t know you were getting either. After all, who is better to steal from customers than a thief? Only thing here is the thief stole from the car dealer first. Usually they pay them good enough to keep the thievin? on the retail end ? that?s your end and it can cost you money, so watch out!
If you?re the victim of a car dealer?s fraud, call us. We go after car dealers (and manufacturers) every day. It?s what we do.
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Helping Consumers Fight Back Since 1978
Subscribe in a reader- Don't Let Your Car Dealer Steal Your Car. There's A Shortage Of Good Used Cars And Dealers Are Promising The Moon To Get Your's, But Is It Real?
The used car market is constantly changing. But the one constant is that more used cars are sold retail, every year, than new cars. In fact, usually there are at least 3 used cars sold for every new car sold - and that's in a normal year. With credit...
- Convicts At Car Dealers, Part 5
If a car dealer's employee is willing to steal from the company, what makes you think they won't steal from you, too? Well, when we started this 5 part series we had just 5 reports of car dealer employees who were reported to have stolen from...
- Convicts At Car Dealers, Part 4
If a car dealer's employee is willing to steal from the company, what makes you think they won't steal from you, too? Question: how many Mercedes do you have to sell so the boss doesn't notice when you steal a million dollars? A lot. In a...
- Convicts At Car Dealers, Part 3
"Cheezit, guys, here come the cops!" It's not just a line from an old movie. It's probably what they said at an upstate New York Chevy dealer recently when the police showed up with search warrants. Not a good way to start the day. If a car dealer?s...
- Thieving Dealers
"I learned it from the boss," might be the excuse some dealership employees have in mind for the latest round of fraud at car dealerships. According to Wards Dealer Business Magazine, more and more employees at car dealerships are getting caught stealing...