Personally, I think you people get too angry over the silliest things. If this was really happening, you’d hear stories about this on an internet forum, and not a press release.

Yeah, maybe. I watched two of the ads. It was definitely bad TV. And you’re right, they probably paid the “sellers.”

But I most definitely would have wanted to slug the guy who accused the seller of lying because his arms were folded in front of him. And I wonder what, if anything, they were paid?

I hope it was worth what it cost; their human dignity.

But then again, if you believe these commercials to be actual events, then I suppose you also believe a VW Beetle with a heavy German accent flirted with two women in a dealership and talked them into buying a Jetta.

Now THAT I would like to see!

If you want to spend more money for the warranty coverage you get with a Certified vehicle why not? If you don’t have enough bucks and want to take your chances go ahead….you get what you pay for.

If folks don’t understand what Certified offers, this seems like an interesting way to find out. The private sellers all seemed OK in the end. I’ll bet they all got paid, and all signed a release or they wouldn’t be on the site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF4FtWghQAw

I thought about getting angry over the idea of some cpo rep ‘ambushing’ a car sale, but then again, I’ve dealt with worse. Lowballers, folks who leave underhanded comments to the effect that I’m smoking something if I think my car will sell at the price I was asking for, vultures who circle around waiting for me to get frustrated part it out…

Personally, I think you people get too angry over the silliest things. If this was really happening, you’d hear stories about this on an internet forum, and not a press release.

But then again, if you believe these commercials to be actual events, then I suppose you also believe a VW Beetle with a heavy German accent flirted with two women in a dealership and talked them into buying a Jetta.

Two wrongs don’t make a right. If you are actually serious about your idea, at least make sure that you are doing it at a lousy dealer. I have actually done business with dealers that were good folks. And by that, I mean actually good, not just good compared to other dealers.

Just one. But a big one; maybe a Cadillac or a Corvette. Just to see if I can do it… Who’s with me? I’ll need an undercover cameraman!

Do you have an email address for GM’s ad agency? I want to thank them for being so stupid that I got a really great laugh today.

Cheesy and stupid. I’ve worked at ad agencies, and believe me, creativity is in damn short supply at most of these places. Worse, since the majority of account teams are twenty-somethings (you’d be lucky to have 1 -2 thirty-somethings, and 1 40-something as account supervisor on a team) — they have a pretty juvenile sense of what works — that too often shows little maturity.

BTW — I hate the GM-CPO ads on ebaymotors. It really screws up the whole works — when (for some makes) a large majority of the ads are dealer-cpo vehicles. Those are not auctions — ugh.

No, it’s not an ironclad legal document but it’s a lot better than a handshake and verbal agreement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_is

I wonder if the check cleared …

Why is everyone getting their panties in a bunch over this?

Maybe because they aren’t putting down the people who bought their cars and are now trying to sell them to someone else.

The key here is that those other manufacturers aren’t trying to make private sellers look like idiots.

Not just idiots. GM is trying to make PRIVATE SELLERS look at best like unethical people, or at worst like lawbreakers!

When no such evidence or proof exists, don’t we call this slander?

The key here is that those other manufacturers aren’t trying to make private sellers look like idiots. At a point where it would behoove GM to engender some goodwill they are coming off as absolute douchebags here.

If GM were assailing fly-by-night used car dealerships to promote CPO sales at their own dealers that would be one thing. They deliberately went after the little guy here. That would be the same little guy who you’d traditionally like to get to come buy one of your vehicles, btw.

I had some hope that Rick & the gang were merely incompetent and all that was needed was regime change – but this tells me they want their place in the history books for how to wreck what was a great organisation. Mind you – it could just be the thing for the other 1.? to use against GM, maybe on the lines of “we value our customer, what ever the age of our product they have” – they may not mean it, but it could sound sincere.

Why is everyone getting their panties in a bunch over this?

We even have a cornball Toyota dealership with a cheezy “Pirate Ship” and a fake “Cobblestons Main Street.”

And they wonder why people warn their friends not to buy GM vehicles.

Oh yes oh yes oh yes I do, and very vocally, too!

But I’ve already sworn off GM for life. I can’t do any more than that!

Aaah, maybe there IS a solution. I have to get married and keep my wife from buying GM. There are TWO fewer drivers for those vultures…

And then our children. No GM cars for them, either. If a boyfriend or girlfriend drives a GM, my son or daughter will just have to dump that person because of their mental and fiscal inferiority!

I can see it now. Me standing in the driveway in my plaid shorts, black socks, and sandals (no shirt), watering the roses and yelling at the top of my lungs:

“AS LONG AS I PAY FOR THIS DRIVEWAY, THERE WILL BE NO GM CARS PARKED IN IT!”

Although I can feel myself becoming my dad, I am a bit calmer now. Still furious, but better…

Either way, kudos to GM for blowing through more cash for no good reason.