Re: Refused car finance?

Uno Hoo! (kev@dropthisbigfoot.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :


<shrug>
Nobody's *forcing* anybody to hock themselves to the eyeballs on shark-
rates for an overpriced tatty used Ford Scrote.

Interesting how their website (No, I didn't use his affiliate link) doesn't
say *anything* about the cars they sell. It's *just* about the credit.

If people are too stupid not to avoid slugs like these, what can you do?

Shout and kick and scream as often as you can to draw attention to them.
Nasties like this hate publicity.

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Skipweasel.
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And the word was Aardvark.

Guy King (guy.king@zetnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :


That'll be why they have so many adverts on pikeyTV and in the pikeyPapers,
then?

Ah - that's /their/ publicity!

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Skipweasel.
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And the word was Aardvark.

Guy King (guy.king@zetnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :


"There's no such thing as bad publicity"

"Adrian" toomany2cvs@gmail.com wrote in message

(c) G. Ratner 1991

Oh, I don't know. Did you see that telly programme the other day?

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Skipweasel.
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And the word was Aardvark.

Guy King (guy.king@zetnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :


Erm, which one...? There's a few to choose from.

Sorry - the one about Yes Car Credit? Mole went in and showed them from
the inside for the shysters they are.

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Skipweasel.
In the beginning was the word.
And the word was Aardvark.

I heard somthing about a Stevie Wonder service :O)

Not even their recent appearance on Watchdog?

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Steve Walker

Steve Walker (steve@otolith.demon.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying :


Is Watchdog still on?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/reports/transport/transport_20040427.shtml

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Steve Walker

Steve Walker (steve@otolith.demon.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying :


Last April. Hardly "Recent", then.

"Yes Car Credit say they will offer credit to buy a quality assured car,
even if the applicant has been refused elsewhere. They claim that they will
arrange the finance and promise a quality used car. But Watchdog have
received 638 emails from viewers saying otherwise.

Watchdog have heard from viewers who have paid over the odds for their
second hand car, expecting it to be a reliable vehicle, only for it to
break down within weeks of purchase."

So the whinging seems more aimed at the cars not being very good rather
than their repulsive loan-shark usury rate? Could that be because the
muppets were so blinded by the fact that some slimy sales droid was waving
hocked-to-the-hilt keys at them ("Ooooh! Shiny! Want!") that they could
even be arsed to go through basic used-car-buying checks?

Sorry - but I stand by my view point.

Yes Car Credit and their ilk will thrive for as long as there are people
stupid enough to get ripped off by them. If Yes get moved off the scene
somehow, others will take over. Those others would likely be less blatant,
and as a result may well end up screwing slightly less stupid people
rotten, instead of just those who shouldn't be allowed to breath.

This would be good, would it?

Check out the whistleblower programme which was aired on BBC1 a few weeks
ago.
Charging higher APR on finance deals for those people who have a poor credit
rating is one thing, but then to sell dodgy cars is another. There was one
car which was shown on the programme which had done 90k miles, and had a FSH
but was on its original cam belt (which should have been changed at 50k).
How can you have a car with a FSH and be on the original cam belt? One of
the so-called mechanics called the service they give to the cars "The Stevie
Wonder service".

ABC (simonbray@nonmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :


Quite easily. Garages don't always do what they should. Well known fact.
Not unique to Yes.

How's it Yes's fault that a service **40k miles** previously was bodged?

Because they blatently knew about it. If they didn't know anything about the
belt, then I could understand. But as the undercover guy filmed a
comversation with another Yes salesman, they were bragging that the car is a
"ticking bomb waiting to go off", and they were waiting for the head to
blow. And as for the manager, refusing to honour the "no-quibble 7-day
returns company policy" to a young couple who had problems with their car
only minutes after driving it off the car lot.

Yes, I have to agree that not all garages do the work that they should, but
Yes are selling over-priced cars to people who go to them as they can't get
a decent car any other way.

No, but any car dealer with a scrap of intelligence would either make *sure*
that the cambelt had been changed, or if it was due, sell the car with a new
one fitted, or advise the customer to get it done ASAP.  A lot don't, but
it'd be within their interests, as the cambelt *could* snap within as little
as a few days after the customer buys the car, and that would be very highly
likely to show the car as unsuitable for the purpose.

--
Peter

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Discus."
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Ah, maybe that's what I saw. SWMBO was watching it, whatever it was.

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Steve Walker