Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex
Speaker 1: and Frooms catch Up podcast. One of my favorite Internet hobbies.
Speaker 1: It's not just watching content but living in the comments.
Speaker 1: Seeing how people are just responding to stuff on the
Speaker 1: internet unprovoked really interests me. I read a lot of
Speaker 1: news and a lot of news articles and the same
Speaker 1: thing comes up where the comment's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: how could this person do this thing? What would drive
Speaker 1: someone to do something so terrible? And it reminded me
Speaker 1: of a situation a couple of years ago, maybe like
Speaker 1: three years ago. I was trying to buy a used
Speaker 1: car and being the big girl that I am, the
Speaker 1: one who insists on doing everything by themselves, I thought
Speaker 1: I'd go alone. Yeah, I love that. I thought I
Speaker 1: go alone. I now know better, but you know here
Speaker 1: we are. So I went there, and I'm I also
Speaker 1: want to do things alone, and I love to do
Speaker 1: things as soon as I want to do them. And
Speaker 1: so when I went to this used car dealership, I
Speaker 1: wanted to drive home today with a car not going
Speaker 1: to happen. It's not going to happen. Why because it
Speaker 1: takes time, Like there's so much paperwork, and like, did
Speaker 1: you want one on the lot. It needs to get
Speaker 1: red jo needs to get warranty, he needs to have
Speaker 1: a detail, et cetera. Yeah, well the ones that I
Speaker 1: was looking at came with Reggio and warranty and I
Speaker 1: was paying cash, so it's good to go. It was
Speaker 1: good to go. So it was well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking around. I'm looking around and I come
Speaker 1: across this car brand that will not be named, and
Speaker 1: the price was okay. And I had texted my friend
Speaker 1: at a time who had some experience working at an
Speaker 1: automotive startup, so she had some like residual car based knowledge,
Speaker 1: and she was like, m why do I know that
Speaker 1: brand name? Like what year is that car? And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, like a twenty fourteen. She's like, something's clicking.
Speaker 1: And so anyway, I'm talking to this used car salesman
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, like I want it. But I'm
Speaker 1: talking to my friend has experience in cars, and she's
Speaker 1: saying that like something like something's not clicking for her.
Speaker 1: And he's doing the thing he does, you know, this
Speaker 1: is the best that we can get. You get it today,
Speaker 1: like la la lave you pay cash, will take off
Speaker 1: this much money you know, get it. Now, we've done
Speaker 1: all the background checks. It's perfect, it's good to go.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with it. So now I go back
Speaker 1: to my friend and she's like, I swear that this
Speaker 1: is the car that had the recall issue because it
Speaker 1: had the faulty breaks and faulty power steering. And I
Speaker 1: was like, what what do you mean this guy says
Speaker 1: it's fine. She was like, I just think you should
Speaker 1: get a pre purchase inspection. If you really want this
Speaker 1: car so badly and you you love it so badly, literally,
Speaker 1: wait one day, get an urgent pre purchase inspection. It'll
Speaker 1: cost you. And who does that? An independent, an independent
Speaker 1: person I think it's government businesses as well, but independent
Speaker 1: to the used car dealership. And so they come in,
Speaker 1: they'll inspect the car for you, give you this huge
Speaker 1: report about everything. They can see whether or not the
Speaker 1: car's been crashed before, and if they've detailed it, they
Speaker 1: look at the engine, all of this stuff, just real stuff.
Speaker 1: It was like four hundred dollars, was like, and then
Speaker 1: in zil and I want it now. She's like, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you something's off about this car. Oh, I hit
Speaker 1: up this business for a pre purchase inspection. I say,
Speaker 1: am in a rash, I want up tomorrow, Like, we
Speaker 1: can do it today if you want. I say yeah.
Speaker 1: I go to the car salesman. I'm like, they'll come today.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, better, they'll come tomorrow. I was like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: they'll come tomorrow. I'll come tomorrow afternoon. So they go
Speaker 1: do the inspection in the morning, and then I get
Speaker 1: a bunch of miscalls. I'm like, what is that. I
Speaker 1: get emails Urgent, Urgent, open this email. I get text
Speaker 1: if you were Lilian and you are the person who
Speaker 1: booked for a pre purchased inspection, I need you to
Speaker 1: call me back asap. This person's freaking out. So now
Speaker 1: I'm freaking out. I call this guy back. He's like,
Speaker 1: whatever you do, do not get that car. Not only
Speaker 1: has it been recalled for faulty power searing, faulty break,
Speaker 1: this car has an engine problem, had leaking fluid. It's
Speaker 1: already been total before all of this stuff came out.
Speaker 1: I was like what He's like, I promise you. He's like,
Speaker 1: he's like, I hear your voice. Now you're remid me like,
Speaker 1: you could be my daughter. She's your age as well.
Speaker 1: I know she's super enthusiastic. La la la, And then
Speaker 1: he just wanted to this whole spiel and he was like,
Speaker 1: you should have had someone go in there with you.
Speaker 1: These things are not saved. People do anything to make
Speaker 1: a sale. They don't care about your well be And
Speaker 1: I at the time, I was like, I just want
Speaker 1: a car, and so I call the car dealership. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm not getting the car. And this man was like,
Speaker 1: this pre perchaing inspectrum guy is trying to scam you.
Speaker 1: They've already taken four hundred dollars for me, what else
Speaker 1: would they take from me? I was like, this is
Speaker 1: all too much anyway, So I started my own research.
Speaker 1: Not only is this pre purchase inspection guy so right,
Speaker 1: but this guy could not see me as a person.
Speaker 1: He could only see me as a sale so much
Speaker 1: so that God for Beds something happened to me, there'd
Speaker 1: be no remorse because even when he sent him the
Speaker 1: report as well, he's like, yeah, they're taking you for
Speaker 1: a ride. I said, even with the evidence, you were
Speaker 1: trying to do a fast one on me. What time
Speaker 1: of the month was it? What time of the month, like,
Speaker 1: what what date was it? On the month. Oh babe,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was years ago. If it's late
Speaker 1: in the month, they're gonna be desperate. Yeah, but this
Speaker 1: is not this is this is not you. Worry you.
Speaker 1: You started to think about, like where where does this
Speaker 1: rhetoric come from that you shouldn't trust to use card deals?
Speaker 1: And I was like, what are you guys talking about? Like,
Speaker 1: let's just like, don't paint everyone with the same brushstroke.
Speaker 1: Do it? Paint everyone with the same brushstroke for your
Speaker 1: safety if you need to anyway, wild based on that
Speaker 1: experience buying you every time, and the price is for
Speaker 1: used cars in twenty twenty three. It's been bad since COVID,
Speaker 1: but it's really bad now. You've been listening to The
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