There are a lot of things some people do that others would not. That doesn't make what they chose to do right or wrong. If a woman buys a used car with what today is considered 'low' mileage, by some people, that doesn't make it the center of what is wrong with this country by any means. People make choices. Sometimes they strap themselves with unnecessary debt, and a payment cycle for their entire life.
It's a choice, NOT a crime. Maybe a wiser choice could be made, maybe there weren't enough options in front of the person at the time, or their choice was made in haste, or maybe at gunpoint; who knows what the motivating factors were?!
And its not always black or white in terms of choices made. There are grey areas too. It's NOT all about right choice/wrong choice.
Sometimes its about the best choice/decision, OR what seemed like the best choice at the time the decision was made.
And on the subject of poor little paycheck to paycheck girl/woman thing, and guys at dealerships taking advantage of women/ girls females, etc. Are you guys for real?!
Women may not collectively, as a gender, have the amount of interest in cars that guys do; BUT guys are going to take advantage of whatever they can, whenever they can, when trying to sell someone of any gender anything they are trying to sell. Will people lie to make a sale? Sure, most salesmanship is just that; trying to ram the ship so far up someones azz that they can't get it out without help from a friend.
Am I being crass to prove a point? YES. But the point I'm trying to make is their is complicity in any sale. An agreement that you won't screw me too bad for what I want for what I'm willing to pay.
Poorer people tend to get more screwed on car deals than richer folks because often they don't have any leverage/credit to negotiate a better deal with. It is the same reason a used car loan is always a higher cost than a similar new car loan. RISK! Its a greater chance of loss of value/default on loan with someone who is less well off, than it is with someone who has a proven track record/credit rating...that is, PAYS their bills on time, then someone who is 3 feet from bankruptcy on any given day.
Look up George Carlin's view on salesmen, schoolteachers, priests, bankers. etc. It is one of the funniest and most true diatribes on liars lying through there azzes everyday, all day' till the world catches fire.
I don't care what brand of car one buys or who they buy it from, or where. The same things happen everyday. people buy stuff because they want or need it, or think they need it. Some pay one price and others pay a different price. Some make out like bandits, others get screwed, from their perspective. It's called LIFE. Get used to it. It ain't fair, but it's always a challenge, or as some say: its a ***** then you die.
My point? Its too short to get hung up on minute details. She bought- seal or whatever failed. Pay to get it fixed or fight about it 'till the' jobs come back', but in the end the ONLY thing any of us have is limited time to live. And NO, time is NOT money, money may be what we spend time seeking, but in the end we all die, and with no money to take with us - we just have run out of time. So figure out what amount of anyone's time is worth spending on a perceived slight by a dealer just working to make as much money as possible in the time they have, then move on to the next thing in one's life that has some semblance of significance.
