Rosner, Barry & Babbitt, LLP’s Auto Fraud Legal Center has filed a class action lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of William Wyatt and three classes of auto purchasers against Star Ford and Wells Fargo Dealer Services. The first class identified in Mr. Wyatt’s lawsuit is consumers who purchased vehicles from Star Ford and signed backdated contracts. Mr. Wyatt alleges Star Ford would cancel contracts and have customers sign new contracts, and the new contracts would be dated the date of the customer’s original contract. The second class identified in Mr. Wyatt’s lawsuit is all car buyers at Star Ford who had trade-in vehicles, and whose contracts overstate the amount due to pay off the trade-in. Mr. Wyatt alleges Star Ford would not use the payoff amount on the trade-in as of the date of the transaction, thereby overstating the amount due on the trade the customer had to…
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Rosner, Barry & Babbitt, LLP’s Auto Fraud Legal Center Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Star Ford and Wells Fargo Dealer Services
April 12th, 2012San Diego Superior Court Approves $94,500 Cy Pres Award to Make-A-Wish Foundation
April 12th, 2012Rosner, Barry & Babbitt, LLP’s Auto Fraud Legal Center is pleased to announce San Diego County Superior Court Judge Luis Vargas approved a $94,500 cy pres award to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The award comes from the case of Macias v. Acura of Escondido, in which it was alleged Acura of Escondido violated various California consumer protection laws by backdating retail installment sale contracts. For more information about this case, or any of the Auto Fraud Legal Center’s other class actions against California automobile dealerships and finance companies, please contact Hawk Barry at (800) 466-5366.
Rosner, Barry & Babbitt, LLP’s Auto Fraud Legal Center Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Ron Baker Chevrolet and Capital One Auto Finance
March 28th, 2012Rosner, Barry & Babbitt, LLP’s Auto Fraud Legal Center has filed a class action lawsuit in San Diego County Superior Court on behalf of Jose Mondragon and three classes of auto purchasers against Ron Baker Chevrolet and Capital One Auto Finance. The first class identified in Mr. Mondragon’s lawsuit is consumers who purchased vehicles from Ron Baker Chevrolet and whose contracts do not separately itemize fees due to the DMV for license fees and registration, transfer, and titling fees. The second class identified in Mr. Mondragon’s lawsuit is consumers who purchased vehicles from Ron Baker Chevrolet in National City and were automatically charged an Optional DMV Electronic Filing Fee. Mr. Mondragon alleges that instead of giving customers the choice of whether to pay Ron Baker Chevrolet to electronically submit their registration information to the DMV, Ron Baker Chevrolet automatically charged its customers for this service, profiting on every deal. The third…
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Recent article on msnbc.com discusses Car Dealers’ latest deceptive sales tactic — “We’ll pay off your trade”
March 26th, 2012Recently, there was an article on msnbc.com discussing the latest deceptive practice used by car dealers. You’ve probably seen or heard the advertisements “We’ll pay off your trade-in — no matter what you owe.” Well, the FTC is cracking down on these advertisements: http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/23/10815449-car-dealers-latest-deceptive-sales-tactic What a lot of people do not realize is that the amount used to pay off your trade-in is added to your new purchase contract. Thus, you are really financing your old and your new car together. It’s like consolidating debt or credit cards. If you continue to do this a number of times you end up financing a car that is worth a lot less than you owe on it.