July 27th, 2006 by GoldenAppleCorp
A woman in my class came in distressed the other day. She claimed that her car had been stolen from her apartment’s parking lot. 
Yesterday she came into class and said that she’d received a call from the cops. Turns out it had been reposessed, not stolen.
Here’s where it gets scammy. The dealership in question (Smoky Mountain Car Supercenter) had received her car payment only one day late when they sent out their repo guy. When my classmate called them to ask why they towed the car, the salesman said that he’d mispelled her name on the contract and she hadn’t noticed, so they had voided it. Hmm.
Luckily, she’d written down the VIN for the car before it got towed. Upon looking it up, she found out that the car had four owners in this year alone. It looks like they get their downpayment, maybe a second payment, void the contract and repo the car and start the whole process over again.
Our readers are too smart to fall for something like this, but I know you all know some suckers. Spread the word and make sure no one gets shafted again.
July 27th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Sounds to me like Smoky Mountain Car Supercenter is a bunch of scaming assmonkeys.
July 27th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
This “scam” isn’t the invention of the Smokey Mountain Car Supercenter. Drive out Clinton Hwy. some Saturday afternoon and notice all the poor folks walking around the “tote the note” lots looking to buy a car. They are all falling for the same scam.
All of these buy here, pay here car dealers do the same thing. If you are unfortunate enough to buy a car from one of these places, just try paying your car payment 3 days late. You won’t have a car anymore.
There’s more money in re-selling than receiving all of the payments from the customer and completing the sale.
July 27th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
I think you mean to say “alleged bunch of alleged scamming assmonkeys.”
July 27th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
What is an “assmonkey” anyway? Alleged or otherwise…
July 27th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
I know all those places are shady, and probably scams, but this is the only one I’ve heard this particular scam about.
July 27th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
One reason that all those places are scams is because they charge an interest rate higher than my IQ…and I ain’t that smart.
(Piling on would be in bad taste)
July 27th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
I think an ass maonkey is like what came out of the guys butt in the Jim Cary movie where he waz gowd
July 27th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Dude, nobody’s that smart when they’re around GAC. Her immense and intimidating intellect would make a rube out of Joel, if they were inclined to have a nerd-off
July 27th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Don’t write a check my ass can’t cash, AT.
July 27th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Heh.
July 27th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
I’ve been inspired to open my own dealership!
July 27th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Do ass monkeys weara asshats?
Burning question of our times. I’ve heard of this car scam so often I just
assumed (Ass-oooomed!) it was standard used car sales operation.
July 28th, 2006 at 8:22 am
Well, apparently I’m just naive then.
July 28th, 2006 at 10:44 am
I doubt that, GAC. I’m glad you named the insidious car lot - might think of sending the info
to the state department of commerce or to the state attorney general’s office!
July 28th, 2006 at 11:18 am
Oh, we’re all about naming names at Atomictumor.
July 28th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Joe, we as a class tried to talk the suckered woman into calling Don Dare and the BBB. She isn’t, for whatever reasons I don’t know. But yeah, assholes like these need to be named.
July 28th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Wait a minute. If I own 5% of the dot in AT.com, does that mean I’m proportionately liable if you folks loose your ass in a liable suit?
July 28th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
Maybe, but I doubt we’d lose. Our lawyer knows “The Chewbacca Defense”.
July 28th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
okay - off topic - this is a list of the answers for the movie quiz on my page:
1. cube
2. Citizen Kane
3. casablanca
6. groundhog day
7. blood rayne
8. The Street Fighter
9. dogma
10. raiders of the lost ark
11. to kill a mockingbird
12. Life of Brian
13. platoon
14. dog day afternoon
15. Taxi (french movie remade in US with Jimmy Fallon
and this one truly had me stumped too!!)
16. Heat
17. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
18. The Insider
19. total recall
20. tom yum goong (totally stumped me)
21 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (haven’t seen it but its in my
NetFlix list and also one that stumped me!)
22. wag the dog
23. bulletproof monk
24 No Man’s Land (never heard of it)
25 Kopps (yeah, never heard of it)
26 Y Tu Mama Tambien
27. phone booth
28. scary movie 2
July 28th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
Dammit, Joe. If I weren’t interested in the thing (and, incidently, getting a 15 out of 28, thus beating GAC), I’d bitch at you about being off topic like I did at Lissa a few weeks ago.
But, I won’t. Instead, I’ll linky the quiz so all these people can go there.
Linky.
July 28th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
a thousand pardons - i am in all ways guilty of being an off-topic-doofus.
just wanted to provide the answers somewhere other than my page …
at least until tomorrow …
thanks for including the link - shoulda thought to do that!
apologies for the blog bleed-over
July 28th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
S’alright!