False Advertisement, when does it cross the line?

Saw car on paper, 2002 with 0 miles for 8,000.00. I highly doubt it. But called dealer anyway... Dealer is legit. I have an appt. to see the car tomorrow. When I mentioned if car truly had no miles he said he was not sure (he was not at his office) and wanted to meet me. What do you think? SCAM?





Thanks in advance!False Advertisement, when does it cross the line?
Well my guess would be it is a honest mistake as far as the ad goes. I mean everyone knows that a 2002 is going to have some miles on it. The salesman very well may have not been at his office and instead of taking a guess at what the miles were he told you the truth. Cars come and go at dealerships not to mention they have so many cars it would be very hard to remember every detail about each one. It is also his job to get you to come in and see the car because ...well your not going to buy on the phone.





Go take a look at it and see if you like it. Make sure to do your research on it and get your values. When buying a used car always have a mechanic check the car out for you to make sure it does not have a ton of issues or anything major. Also always pull a carfax report because it gives you a little more background on the car and makes sure you know if it is a clean title or not.False Advertisement, when does it cross the line?
Go see it anyway. It sounds like a trick to get you in the door though.
some states at a 100000 say 0 odometer 5 digit not 6 and some dealers will say na cause they dont know the acutal miles get a car fax if u want that car
let the buyer beware ';cavet emptor';
No, they generally just put a 0 when they are too lazy to go out and look at the mileage. It's code for ';I don't know';. No dealership would try to sell you a car with 0 miles. Then again, I didn't think that there was anyone out there who would take ';0 miles'; literally. No, they are not trying to 'scam' you. No, it's not false advertising, nor is it any sort of thing to get worked up about. No, the odometer can't 'roll over'--they've all been 6 digits since the late 80's. Just go look at it. Did you really think some dealership was going to try and pass off a 6 year old, no mileage car on you?
The odometer may have rolled over 100,000 miles. The car is at least 5 years old so that would be an average of 20K miles per year.
it crosses the line when he lies. thanks for the two points.
When dealers or even private owners leave odometer reading blank or put 0 that means they do not know. You may think ';How can they not know?'; but trust me it does happen, especially at dealerships when cars come in and out daily. On a private level it happens when you stored the car somewhere for a long time and haven't seen it in a while or something like that, happened to me lol