Auto Fraud: The Price Is Wrong

Within the last week, the Associated Press reported that a lady who won a car on the game show "The Price is Right" had filed a lawsuit against the game show on CBS Broadcasting and the auto dealer who sold her the car. Back in 2004, she won a new 2004 Pontiac GTO Coupe while appearing on the show. She had the car for approximately a year when she took it in for service and learned that it had been wrecked and repaired before it was delivered to her as a "new" car.

This lawsuit has garnered publicity simply because of the connection with "The Price is Right." A car dealer took a car that they knew had been wrecked, repaired it and passed it off to this contest winner, ripping her off for potentially thousands of dollars. Then the contest winner somehow finds out about it and sues. This happens every day all over the United States.

Car consumers don't realize how much money is involved in buying and selling cars in the U.S., or how competitive the market is, or how greedy automobile dealers can be, or how people who work in the industry, for whatever reason, get to a place where misleading consumers and taking advantage of them isn't seen as wrong but as a legitimate way to do business.