Car Dealer Sales Boom comes with Headaches: Little Room for Error in System
Crain’s Detroit Business | August 9, 2009
Dealers also have to make sure they are following the rules correctly. If the government rejects an application,
the dealer doesn’t get reimbursed for the $3,500 or $4,500 paid to a consumer, said Robert Weller, an attorney
at the Detroit office of Abbott Nicholson P.C. who specializes in representing dealerships.
One client paid the $4,500 to a customer who had renewed the registration on his car three days after his
birthday.
“It was a couple of days, but it was considered a lapse in registration,” Weller said. “It was rejected, but the
dealer had already delivered the new car and disabled the old car. So now they’re sitting on a $4,500 problem.”
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