A car dealer has been exposed for artificially inflating the prices of new cars with fictitious fees and forced extras. It now costs him DKK 68,000 per car.
A Honda dealer in the US state of Maryland has been caught defrauding its customers to such an extent that it now costs the owner a fine of 10,000 dollars, equivalent to DKK 68,000.
The fine must be multiplied by the number of cars he has sold during the period in which the fraud has been going on. What the authorities in the state are up to in an upcoming trial.
That's what Automotive News writes.
Specifically, the dealer, DARCARS Honda, has placed a fictitious 'commission rate' of two percent on top of the price of all its new cars.
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In addition, the dealer has forced its customers to pay for a certain amount of extra equipment, which the dealer otherwise claimed could not be opted out of.
The dealer has also offered his customers overpaid insurance and guarantees, which are in no way legal. Something that has only made the cars even more expensive.
The dealer himself claims that the authorities' accusations are false. At best they are baseless. A spokesman defends himself by saying that 'over the past two years, the business has done nothing but comply with the rules in the state'.
However, the spokesman will not relate to the time for that. For its part, the authorities are now demanding that the Honda dealer, in addition to the fine, must pay compensation to the defrauded customers.
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