{"id":25985,"date":"2022-01-24T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t3_sbm8c0"},"modified":"2022-01-24T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T13:29:10","slug":"class-action-against-quebec-car-dealerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/2022\/01\/24\/class-action-against-quebec-car-dealerships\/","title":{"rendered":"Class action against Quebec car dealerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I thought this was interesting (link in French): <a href=\"https:\/\/lp.ca\/n0J2qH?sharing=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/lp.ca\/n0J2qH?sharing=true<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since 2010, in Quebec, it\u2019s illegal for a dealership to charge more than the advertised price for a car. Seems pretty basic to me, but apparently a lot of dealerships are not respecting the law. If for any reason, the ad or website offered a price and the dealership refused to sell at the advertised price, they were breaching the law.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll be interesting to see how the lawsuit unfolds. I knew buying a car was a constant game of tug of war until the contract was signed, but I didn\u2019t know just how widespread the practice of overcharging was.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/jipsjipsjips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \/u\/jipsjipsjips <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PersonalFinanceCanada\/comments\/sbm8c0\/class_action_against_quebec_car_dealerships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PersonalFinanceCanada\/comments\/sbm8c0\/class_action_against_quebec_car_dealerships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><a href=\"\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was interesting (link in French): https:\/\/lp.ca\/n0J2qH?sharing=true Since 2010, in Quebec, it\u2019s illegal for a dealership to charge more than the advertised price for a car. Seems pretty basic to me, but&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}