Car Dealers are pushing the legislature to allow them to get electronic signatures from consumers. It is a bad idea that consumer advocates have successfully blocked in the past. Now, however, the anti-consumer forces have gained a new author in the Senate Judiciary, Senator Tom Omberg. Here is the link to the bill: UETA —…
See what happens when you don’t have consumer protections: you get stuck in dangerous and defective vehicles…. even with “Canada nice” culture. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/lemon-laws-7-questions-about-a-consumer-protection-law-canada-doesn-t-have-1.2951106
Excellent article shows the differences in consumer protection by state. https://nyti.ms/2DVhyIJ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/automobiles/car-lemon-laws-states.html
The National Consumer Law Center has issued an important study on the high costs and discriminatory practices of car dealerships. The NCLC is calling for legislative actions to protect the consumer public. (NCLC Publication, October 2017: “Auto Add-Ons Add Up: How Dealer Discretion Drives Excessive, Arbitrary and Discriminatory Pricing.”) The Car Dealership Industry claims the…
The ANTI-ARBITRATION VOTE IS TODAY – PLEASE CALL!! Today there is going to be a vote in the United States Senate on Senate Joint Resolution 47, a vote to overturn the new CFPB rule that restores your 7th amendment right to a trial in court and not by secret tribunal where Wells or Equifax pays…
AAA has come out with a warning for buyers of Certified Pre-Owned vehicles: Buyers Beware! Go to NHTSA.gov/recalls to find out if your CPO is recalled for a safety defect. The manufacturer’s and dealers MAY NOT TELL YOU, and they may even be knowingly advertising recalled vehicles as CPOs! Check out Peter Bohr’s expose in…
Effective January 1, 2018, sleazy car dealers and other bad actor businesses can no longer attack consumers based on their immigration status as a defense to consumer rip-offs or consumer abuse by their business. AB 1690 was just signed in to law by Govenor Brown. The impetus for the bill was a case where a…
If you are a consumer with a lemon vehicle, one of the first questions to ask is “What laws protect me?” Many consumers in California lived out of state previously and may have purchased their vehicle somewhere else. Does California’s Lemon Law protect them? Unless you are active duty military (as explained below), it depends…
A new California Assembly bill, AB1690, would add “consumer protection” to existing state law that makes a person’s immigration status “irrelevant to the issue of liability, and in proceedings or discovery” in labor, employment, civil rights and housing cases. A good article in the Daily Journal points out that this is really a clarification of…
Welcome to National Consumer Protection Week! Let’s use this week to talk about what is happening to consumers in the U.S. as we speak. For National Consumer Protection Week 2017, the FTC will take part in a Facebook Live chat with USA.gov on Tuesday, March 7th at 11:30 a.m Pacific time. The Facebook Live chat will…
