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Sounds like he was just brushing you off on what he knew would be a difficult/impossible task.
Again to be honest, if you signed a contract that has the final sale price clearly laid out and what exactly that includes, it might not even matter if the ad originally stated a different price.
You're probably right because that is what the Better Business Bureau said along with the Ohio Attorney General's office whose original position was that if an original price was presented to you, but you were charged a different price, then the company is in the wrong. However, since I didn't have a copy of the ad, the Ohio Attorney General's office took the position that I signed documents that had the price of the car on them.
And yeah doesn't sound like an entirely honest company, though I'm completely unsurprised that a small 2nd hand car dealership doesn't want to help implicate themselves in a dodgy transaction.
Who said that this was a small 2nd hand car dealership? This is one of the most prominent car dealerships in the area that I live in.
Either way, sounds like you're stuck without actually taking them to court. Small claims don't allow lawyers, so it'll be you and the manager or sales rep doing the talking.
I think it will help your case if you have a response in writing from the ad company that they require the party who posted & paid for the ad to request a copy of it. And also, once you have that request, email it to the sales company and ask them to email the ad company (provide the email address to send request to), confirming you have their permission to seek a copy of the ad.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you are saying.
Once you've done all that, and if the sales company still refuse to send even a simple email, you'll likely have a better small claims case. You've done as much groundwork as you can and have everything in writing, and the sales company is clearly trying to obstruct finding details for the original ad. The case here would be, why would you suddenly agree to pay $2,000 more than what the ad originally asked for? It makes no sense.
Exactly. That's the same common sense reasoning that I'm using.
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