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Ford Dealership Pays for its Consumer Fraud

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yeah we
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represented a nice young man who had
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been cheated he
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didn’t have a lot of money and he bought
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a used uh
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taurus for 18 000 dollars and he had
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been assured that it had never been an
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accident by one of the largest
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you know ford dealers in in the country
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he
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uh found out it was a rebuilt wreck
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after he bought it he got a carfax
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report showing it had been in a serious
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accident
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we hired an expert who showed that there
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was frame damage and we went to trial
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and said instead of being treated like
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he expected he had trusted this dealer
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he had bought a car from them in the
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past that he thought it was a big shiny
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car dealership a new car dealership that
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he was treated as if he had gone to a
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used car lot on western avenue
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and was completely betrayed by the car
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dealer that he trusted we put that
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presentation on
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on a zoom arbitration because this was
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during covid
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and the arbitrator awarded him ten
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thousand dollars all his actual damages
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ten thousand dollars in aggravation and
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inconvenience
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sixty thousand dollars in punitive
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damages
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uh and all our attorneys fees
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