WEBVTT - 🚘 Flex Almost Bought A Recalled Car 🚘

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<v Speaker 1>Flex and Frooms Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex

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<v Speaker 1>and Frooms catch Up podcast. One of my favorite Internet hobbies.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not just watching content but living in the comments.

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<v Speaker 1>Seeing how people are just responding to stuff on the

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<v Speaker 1>internet unprovoked really interests me. I read a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>news and a lot of news articles and the same

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<v Speaker 1>thing comes up where the comment's like, oh my god,

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<v Speaker 1>how could this person do this thing? What would drive

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<v Speaker 1>someone to do something so terrible? And it reminded me

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<v Speaker 1>of a situation a couple of years ago, maybe like

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<v Speaker 1>three years ago. I was trying to buy a used

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<v Speaker 1>car and being the big girl that I am, the

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<v Speaker 1>one who insists on doing everything by themselves, I thought

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<v Speaker 1>I'd go alone. Yeah, I love that. I thought I

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<v Speaker 1>go alone. I now know better, but you know here

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<v Speaker 1>we are. So I went there, and I'm I also

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<v Speaker 1>want to do things alone, and I love to do

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<v Speaker 1>things as soon as I want to do them. And

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<v Speaker 1>so when I went to this used car dealership, I

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<v Speaker 1>wanted to drive home today with a car not going

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<v Speaker 1>to happen. It's not going to happen. Why because it

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<v Speaker 1>takes time, Like there's so much paperwork, and like, did

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<v Speaker 1>you want one on the lot. It needs to get

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<v Speaker 1>red jo needs to get warranty, he needs to have

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<v Speaker 1>a detail, et cetera. Yeah, well the ones that I

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<v Speaker 1>was looking at came with Reggio and warranty and I

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<v Speaker 1>was paying cash, so it's good to go. It was

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<v Speaker 1>good to go. So it was well, here's the thing.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm looking around. I'm looking around and I come

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<v Speaker 1>across this car brand that will not be named, and

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<v Speaker 1>the price was okay. And I had texted my friend

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<v Speaker 1>at a time who had some experience working at an

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<v Speaker 1>automotive startup, so she had some like residual car based knowledge,

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<v Speaker 1>and she was like, m why do I know that

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<v Speaker 1>brand name? Like what year is that car? And I

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<v Speaker 1>was like, oh, like a twenty fourteen. She's like, something's clicking.

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<v Speaker 1>And so anyway, I'm talking to this used car salesman

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, yeah, like I want it. But I'm

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<v Speaker 1>talking to my friend has experience in cars, and she's

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<v Speaker 1>saying that like something like something's not clicking for her.

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<v Speaker 1>And he's doing the thing he does, you know, this

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<v Speaker 1>is the best that we can get. You get it today,

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<v Speaker 1>like la la lave you pay cash, will take off

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<v Speaker 1>this much money you know, get it. Now, we've done

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<v Speaker 1>all the background checks. It's perfect, it's good to go.

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<v Speaker 1>There's nothing wrong with it. So now I go back

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<v Speaker 1>to my friend and she's like, I swear that this

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<v Speaker 1>is the car that had the recall issue because it

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<v Speaker 1>had the faulty breaks and faulty power steering. And I

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<v Speaker 1>was like, what what do you mean this guy says

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<v Speaker 1>it's fine. She was like, I just think you should

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<v Speaker 1>get a pre purchase inspection. If you really want this

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<v Speaker 1>car so badly and you you love it so badly, literally,

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<v Speaker 1>wait one day, get an urgent pre purchase inspection. It'll

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<v Speaker 1>cost you. And who does that? An independent, an independent

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<v Speaker 1>person I think it's government businesses as well, but independent

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<v Speaker 1>to the used car dealership. And so they come in,

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<v Speaker 1>they'll inspect the car for you, give you this huge

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<v Speaker 1>report about everything. They can see whether or not the

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<v Speaker 1>car's been crashed before, and if they've detailed it, they

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<v Speaker 1>look at the engine, all of this stuff, just real stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>It was like four hundred dollars, was like, and then

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<v Speaker 1>in zil and I want it now. She's like, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>telling you something's off about this car. Oh, I hit

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<v Speaker 1>up this business for a pre purchase inspection. I say,

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<v Speaker 1>am in a rash, I want up tomorrow, Like, we

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<v Speaker 1>can do it today if you want. I say yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I go to the car salesman. I'm like, they'll come today.

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<v Speaker 1>He's like, oh, better, they'll come tomorrow. I was like, okay, cool,

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<v Speaker 1>they'll come tomorrow. I'll come tomorrow afternoon. So they go

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<v Speaker 1>do the inspection in the morning, and then I get

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<v Speaker 1>a bunch of miscalls. I'm like, what is that. I

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<v Speaker 1>get emails Urgent, Urgent, open this email. I get text

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<v Speaker 1>if you were Lilian and you are the person who

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<v Speaker 1>booked for a pre purchased inspection, I need you to

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<v Speaker 1>call me back asap. This person's freaking out. So now

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<v Speaker 1>I'm freaking out. I call this guy back. He's like,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever you do, do not get that car. Not only

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<v Speaker 1>has it been recalled for faulty power searing, faulty break,

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<v Speaker 1>this car has an engine problem, had leaking fluid. It's

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<v Speaker 1>already been total before all of this stuff came out.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like what He's like, I promise you. He's like,

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<v Speaker 1>he's like, I hear your voice. Now you're remid me like,

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<v Speaker 1>you could be my daughter. She's your age as well.

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<v Speaker 1>I know she's super enthusiastic. La la la, And then

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<v Speaker 1>he just wanted to this whole spiel and he was like,

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<v Speaker 1>you should have had someone go in there with you.

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<v Speaker 1>These things are not saved. People do anything to make

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<v Speaker 1>a sale. They don't care about your well be And

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<v Speaker 1>I at the time, I was like, I just want

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<v Speaker 1>a car, and so I call the car dealership. I'm like,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not getting the car. And this man was like,

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<v Speaker 1>this pre perchaing inspectrum guy is trying to scam you.

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<v Speaker 1>They've already taken four hundred dollars for me, what else

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<v Speaker 1>would they take from me? I was like, this is

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<v Speaker 1>all too much anyway, So I started my own research.

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<v Speaker 1>Not only is this pre purchase inspection guy so right,

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<v Speaker 1>but this guy could not see me as a person.

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<v Speaker 1>He could only see me as a sale so much

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<v Speaker 1>so that God for Beds something happened to me, there'd

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<v Speaker 1>be no remorse because even when he sent him the

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<v Speaker 1>report as well, he's like, yeah, they're taking you for

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<v Speaker 1>a ride. I said, even with the evidence, you were

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<v Speaker 1>trying to do a fast one on me. What time

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<v Speaker 1>of the month was it? What time of the month, like,

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<v Speaker 1>what what date was it? On the month. Oh babe,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. It was years ago. If it's late

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<v Speaker 1>in the month, they're gonna be desperate. Yeah, but this

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<v Speaker 1>is not this is this is not you. Worry you.

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<v Speaker 1>You started to think about, like where where does this

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<v Speaker 1>rhetoric come from that you shouldn't trust to use card deals?

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<v Speaker 1>And I was like, what are you guys talking about? Like,

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<v Speaker 1>let's just like, don't paint everyone with the same brushstroke.

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<v Speaker 1>Do it? Paint everyone with the same brushstroke for your

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<v Speaker 1>safety if you need to anyway, wild based on that

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<v Speaker 1>experience buying you every time, and the price is for

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<v Speaker 1>used cars in twenty twenty three. It's been bad since COVID,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's really bad now. You've been listening to The

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