Online Car Retailer Repeatedly Delivers New Vehicles With Undisclosed Damage
A buyer describes receiving three separate vehicles, all sold as new, each arriving with cosmetic damage ranging from scrapes and punctures to torn seals and chipped paint across three consecutive orders. This repeated failure pattern points to a systemic gap in pre-delivery vehicle inspection and quality control at online car retailers, compounded by forced extra shipping costs when local replacements were unavailable.
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