Remember those way-too-good-to-be-true deals from car dealer Chad Franklin Suzuki? The ones touting a
"gas experiment" in which the dealership offered $49 a month car
payments plus free gas? Well, the fallout from that keeps coming.
A jury awarded more than $1.3 million to a couple who claimed the dealership scammed them, according to the always awesome Daily Record in Kansas City.
The story goes that Max and Glenna Overbey bought a
2007 Suzuki from Chad Franklin and were guaranteed payments for $49 a
month, although the retail agreement said $719 a month. The Daily Record
reports that the couple was given a check to make up the difference for
six months. They were told to bring the Suzuki back at the end of that
period, and they could trade it in for another vehicle with the same
$49-a-month deal.
Except Chad Franklin backed out of the deal, and the Overbeys were left paying the full amount.
Last
Wednesday, a Clay County jury awarded the Overbeys $76,000 in actual
damages and $250,000 in punitive damages from the dealership as well as
$4,550 in actual damages and $1 million in punitive damages from Chad Franklin himself, according to the Daily Record.
A
year ago, Chad Franklin Suzuki settled its lawsuit with the state of
Kansas, agreeing to pay the state $350,000 and never sell vehicles in
the state again.
This all really blew up thanks to a message board thread on KCTalk,
where people claimed the car dealership screwed them with its "gas
experiment."
The Star reports that the Overbeys aren't the only ones suing, but the Overbeys are the first to see a judgment.
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Justin - what good is it going to be for these folks to get all these judgments and they probably will never collect a dime from Chad Franklin. I've personally done a lot of research on this deal when it first broke back in late 2007 early 2008, I too got stuck with one of these deals, my opinion there Is also a common sense factor at some point should have said L
"is this deal tool good to be true" Suzuki asked him to use this ad company and approved every ad before it ran on TV or radio. Suzuki had other dealers in different parts of the country running the same ads long before Franklin ever used them, when Suzuki referred Franklin to the new ad company they had already been receiving complains from the other dealers consumers about the same ads they asked Franklin to use. They are a multi million dollar company world wide, they are the ones that need to be paying these consumers back. There is a lot more to this story that hasn't been told yet. It may never, but knowing what little I know there is a lot more to come, truthfully, Franklin himself is a victim as far as I'm concerned.
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