This story is a bit old, but totally hilarious.....
http://www.leftlanenews.com/chevy-dealer-facing-lawsuit-after-having-buyer-arrested.html (http://www.leftlanenews.com/chevy-dealer-facing-lawsuit-after-having-buyer-arrested.html)
Danny Sawyer is suing a Chevrolet dealership in his home town of Chesapeake, Virginia, for having him arrested on theft charges after he paid $5,600 under sticker price for a 2012 Chevrolet Traverse.
On May 7 Sawyer visited Priority Chevrolet to trade in his 2008 Saturn Vue on a new 2012 Chevrolet Traverse. Sawyer test drove a blue Traverse that day, but ultimately agreed to buy a black one for about $33,400.
After a night of sleeping on it, Sawyer decided he really wanted the blue Traverse and returned his black car to the dealership for an exchange. Priority Chevrolet agreed the swap and Sawyer went on his way in his shiny new blue Traverse.
However, a week later Sawyer started to receive calls and letters from the dealership asking him to come back in to sign a new contract for the blue Traverse. As it turned out, the dealership mistakenly let Sawyer swap his $33,400 black Traverse for a blue Traverse with a sticker price of $39,000.
Sawyer, who paid off the balance of the Traverse via a cashier's check, refused to return to the dealership, at which point Priority Chevrolet called the police.
On June 15 Chesapeake police officers arrested Sawyer after Brad Anderson, a manager at the dealership, told authorities that Sawyer had stolen the vehicle. Sawyer spent four hours in jail before being released on bond. On August 23 all charges against Sawyer were dropped.
As a result of that false arrest, Sawyer is now suing Priority Chevrolet for $2.2 million in damages and legal fees. Priority Chevrolet has since apologized and decided to let Sawyer keep the SUV, but Rebecca Colaw, Sawyer's attorney, says "an apology is not enough.â€
"We definitely made a mistake there,†Dennis Ellmer, president of Priority Chevrolet, told Pilot Online. “There is no doubt about it."
Oh, these things get better.....
The guy can't drive the car because the dealer won't release the title at the DMV. Dealer claims the Traverse he took "was a loaner" and that the car he wanted "wasn't ready". What a riot. It took the dealer a week to get his new car "ready"?
http://hamptonroads.com/2012/11/dealership-wants-court-dismiss-buyers-suits (http://hamptonroads.com/2012/11/dealership-wants-court-dismiss-buyers-suits)
Seven weeks after the president of Priority Chevrolet publicly apologized for the wrongful arrest of a customer and promised to make things right, his attorneys are asking the courts to dismiss the Chesapeake man's million-dollar lawsuits.
Attorneys representing Priority also asked the Circuit Court last week to compel Danny Sawyer to enter into binding arbitration with the Better Business Bureau in Norfolk.
"For someone who says they want to make it right, they are making no effort to do so," said Rebecca Colaw, Sawyer's attorney. She said she is not interested in arbitration - that the arbitration clause of her client's contract with Priority was voided when the dealership acted in "bad faith" and had him arrested.
A message for Dennis Ellmer, president of Priority, was returned by his vice president, Stacy Cummings.
"It's in litigation. That is all we can say at this point," Cummings said.
On Sept. 26, Ellmer told The Virginian-Pilot he was sorry Sawyer was arrested over the summer after buying a 2012 Chevrolet Traverse. He said his staff erred when they sold the SUV to Sawyer for about $5,600 too little and erred again when they went to police after he resisted their efforts to get him to sign a new, costlier contract.
Ellmer said at the time that Sawyer, a 40-year-old registered nurse, should not have been arrested and definitely should not have spent four hours in jail.
"It is my plan to let him keep the $5,600 and to make Mr. Sawyer right. I can't tell you how I plan to fix it, but it is my intention to make it right," said Ellmer, who manages the entire Priority Auto Group, which includes 11 dealerships in Virginia and North Carolina. He said at the time he wanted to sit down and talk with Sawyer.
Colaw said no one from Priority has contacted her or her client since Ellmer issued his apology. She said the dealership has not transferred the Traverse's title to her client, so Sawyer cannot legally drive the vehicle.
According to the two lawsuits, which seek $2.2 million in damages, Sawyer purchased a black Chevrolet Traverse from Priority on May 7. The next day, he returned to the dealership and struck a deal to swap the vehicle for a blue model containing more features.
Colaw has said Sawyer paid about $34,000 for the blue SUV - about $400 less than he agreed to pay for the black one.
A week later, Sawyer came back from a vacation to learn the dealership had made a mistake on the contract and sold the car for too little, the lawsuit said. A sales manager asked Sawyer to return to the dealership and sign a new contract.
The lawsuit claims Sawyer refused. Cummings said in September that Sawyer initially agreed but never followed through.
When Sawyer did not return to the dealership, Priority employees repeatedly tried to reach him via phone, text message and hand-delivered letters. They eventually contacted police.
On June 11, Brad Anderson of Priority filed a police report. In it, he told police that Sawyer purchased an SUV on May 7 but that the chosen vehicle was not ready. He said Sawyer took home a loaner vehicle and never brought it back.
Three Chesapeake police officers arrested Sawyer in his front yard on June 15 and took him before a magistrate, the suit said. He was eventually released on bond.
Prosecutors reviewed the case and on Aug. 23 dropped all charges after determining there was insufficient evidence.