This morning I got a phone call from one of my best friends in California, and she was complaining that the used car she just purchased is already having problems. Most of our discussion was about California Lemon law lawyers. Three times this week the car she bought 2 weeks ago shut off on her for no reason driving down the road. Everything checked out when she drove it, and supposedly the car was a “certified pre-owned”, but can you really trust that statement?

I’ve test driven many cars before that were supposedly “certified pre-owned”, but when we really got to looking under the hood we found all sorts of problems that were either missed or blatantly ignored.  Just because a company certifies it doesn’t mean there aren’t any major problems going on, so you have to be careful and get things fully checked out before you spend your hard earned cash!

I told her maybe she needed to take it to her mechanic, and find out what’s going on with it. There’s a possibility they could have sold her a lemon. Hubby used to be her mechanic, but when she moved she lost the ability to get him to look at things before purchasing. I did what I do best, and I turned to the internet to do some research for her. I looked up Lemon Law attorneys in California and pointed her to the information I found. Hopefully she’ll get the situation taken care of, but until then it looks like she’ll be without a car again.

Yeah I know most people already know this, but I had a friend call me just now wanting to know if a certain website was legit, so I thought it was worth it to stress that these scams do happen.

If any website or ebay auction has prices that are too good to be true it is most likely a scam!

My friend called me wanting to know what I thought about 75vn.com. I’m not even justifying the site with a link because it is indeed a scam site. If you do happen to check out the site you will notice they have big ticket items for unbelievably low prices. My friend was looking at some of their bikes, and he was super excited to see the prices. So he does what any other unsuspecting person would do. He called a few of the listers to inquire about the bikes. In fact he called 3 separate numbers for 3 separate sellers.

Each one told him the same thing. They all said they were in England right now, and the bike is being held for them by a shipping company.

This is always a scam!

The scammer lures you in by telling you the shipping company is holding the bike, but they really need to get rid of it quickly, so they’re selling it for a really cheap price. That should be your first tip off. Next they tell you they can’t accept paypal. This is crucial when it’s an Ebay listing because the scammer is keeping the money transfer away from Ebay. You’re told the money will be held in an escrow until you receive the bike and have it inspected. Then the money will be released to the seller. A lot of people fall for this thinking it’s totally legit and they’re protected because their money is in escrow.

Most of the time the bike never exists. The second you send your money you’ve been had. You’ll never see the money or the bike.

Please be careful guys. Remember if something sounds too good to be true, it most likely is!

Now I’m off to search for a few diets for Hubby. He’s decided his leathers are a little too tight in the stomach region, and the only way to fix that is some quick weight loss. Of course I don’t want him losing weight too quickly, but we’re going to put him on a nice healthy diet. We agreed months ago he needed to work on his weight. It took a new set of leathers to make him want to do it!

Man I’m so pissed right now at the local dealership, Performance Powersports. Hell they always give me something to be pissed about. Whether they’re strapping down a new bike wrong causing it to fly off the trailer and skid down the road (see the damage video here) or whether they’re leaving all but 2 of the bolts out of the front plastics, something is always wrong. The links above will show you photos and videos from the damage as well as what they put us through.

Then of course there was that time they told me they’d ordered our parts for warranty work, but it took calls to corporate and 2 weeks just to get them to order the damn parts. Yeah that was the same time they “lost” the parts and told us they’d never received them. Another call to corporate determined the parts had been sitting in their parts department at the store for at least a week while the dealership was telling us they were due to ship from a California warehouse!

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