Today, I finally bought a car, after saving up for a year. My dealer had told me it was a good buy, so I snapped it up then and there. On the way home, the rear axle practically fell out of the car due to frame rot. My dealer wants to buy the car back at half the price. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I bought a used car from a private dealer my parents had recommended. On my way home they called to tell me that their car broke down. They bought it last week from the same guy. FML
Today, I bought my very first car that I spent years saving for. A few hours after I signed all the papers, I let my boyfriend go for a test drive. He totaled it. FML
Today, I've saved enough money to buy a new car, but the dealers wouldn't sell any to me unless I agreed to finance, which is not what I wanted to do because I had enough to flat-out buy. After a screaming argument, I left empty-handed. FML
Today, I bought a car that literally caught fire seconds after I started the engine. The dealership then fobbed me off, saying I'd driven it off their forecourt (by about 3 yards), so it was entirely my problem, but they still expect my monthly payments to be on time. FML
Today, I bought a car. Made a down payment and everything. Have the papers saying it’s mine, only to find out a few hours later it was sold right before I bought it. FML
Today, I found out that the man who sold me my car 6 months ago lied about it being "recently serviced" and "in excellent condition". It actually hasn't been serviced in years, and fixing all its problems is going to cost me $900 more than what I paid for the car. FML
Today, I took my car to dealer because of the loud knocking sound I heard while driving it. Twenty-four hours later, they told me it was fixed. Fifteen minutes after I drove away, the tire flew off my car while I was on the highway. My car is now totaled. FML
Today, I was offered a "rust and accident free“ used car at the dealership. By chance, I managed to track down the previous owner, who was quite surprised I was asking about it, saying, "That one was totaled, I thought it had been scrapped!” FML
Today, my car broke down. Yesterday, my husband mentioned he found my dream car for sale, but I'd insisted my car had a lot of miles left and we should save money. They sold my dream car this morning. Now I'm carless. FML
Today, I finally got enough money to buy the car I wanted for a year now. It was stolen today too. I had my car for 4 hours. FML
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Top comments
egc573 40
"My dealer told me it was a good buy." No shit! What was he/she supposed to say? "No, this is a piece of crap just waiting to come apart the moment you take it off the lot. Now give me your money." Bad call on your part.
RabidBunny 10
You didn't ask for the carfax did you? Tsk tsk :/
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Comments (119)
perdix 31
"My dealer?" Is this the guy that sells you drugs? When you go to a car lot, "the" dealer works for the dealership, not for you. Moving pieces of shit off the lot is a lucrative bonus -- a move that can only be pulled on gullible morons.
evilplatypus 39
The way I see it, if I'm paying you for goods or service, I'm your boss. You are my dealer, my dentist, my professor, my waitress (whatever your profession). I'm aware we aren't mutually exclusive, but then neither are my relationships with my friends.
Lillith_fml 5
except when you change your cars very often (as we do), usually get them from the same place and have known the guy for a million years - then he is 'my dealer'. Also, he usually tells us if something is not such a good buy due to blahblahblah.
EnterSandman_fml 20
Yeah, car dealers are less trustworthy than drug dealers. This is coming from someone who had a brief foray into selling cars on Craigslist and had an ex-girlfriend who I was too blind to see was into selling all sorts of weird stuff.
Llamacod 11
You had a girl friend who you were too blind to see? What does that mean?
Fletchdads 9
You got had.
Arrawyn 12
Well, that's a sick move. Those drab cheats, salesmen are the worst scum ever, never believe what this liars say. That was kind of naive of you.
smydiwannafthata 5
I did not know there were still people left in this world who would believe an used car salesman.
shawnaishere 14
Never trust a white guy that can speak mandarin!
mackdeezy 22
At least I would hope there's an applicable form of lemon laws and carfax in the UK.
fishereric 1
Lemon laws. You still have all the stuff you signed I hope. Or were you too stupid to get a copy of those too?
bgladx64 0
Never trust a used car salesman
florido_fml 10
That's why girls shouldn't purchase cars!
howrudoin 11
the OP is a guy unless he lied about his gender via gender symbol at top.