My experience yesterday with this auction
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TulsaTom T.
America's Auto Auction-Tulsa
be warned...this auction is not a place for average people to find a car because they allow dishonest dealers to disguise problems and even if you purchase a guaranteed vehicle that is "green light all the way" that turns out to be a flood car or worse, the auction company backs the seller and forces you to either take pay the auction price plus their fee or forfeit your $200 cash deposit which is required when you register. i bid on a very basic little 94 mazda pickup for $1625, then on top of that the auction company added $175 for a total of $1800. Since it was sold as a guaranteed green light sale, before i paid, i was allowed to ride in the truck (but not drive), that is when i realized how badly that i was being cheated. when i got in the truck with the auction driver, i noticed the boot on the transmission was loose and when i looked under, there were old rags stuffed all around the shifter to block out the transmission noice and the exhaust leak, when i pulled them out, i could hear a knocking in the engine. the drive was worse, the clutch grabbed, the gears ground, the brakes grabbed and locked the tires.. when i complained to the auction manager, he said the guarantee was for "hard knocks" and transmission slips, only and the knocking in the engine was not a "hard knock", but something else, but he realized i was getting screwed, so he offered me a deal that if i would pay the $1800 for the truck, i could leave it there and he would sell it to someone else the next week and that way somebody else could deal with it, when i told him that the truck was a junker, he told me to "man up" and made it clear that it was a done deal and retreated to his office.
i saw another guy, a mexican, who was in the same predicament on another car and was also losing his $200. i feel this auction assists dishonest dealers in pawning off doctored up cars to the local public and then keeps the required $200 deposits if they complain. like one guy said, this place expects you to "take a f**kin and keep on truckin, cause they make money regardless".
you've been warned.
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