Who had the highest mileage?

[nookandcrannycar]

The last word in the last post by Why? (the word shady) brings back two distinct memories for me. During some of my growing-up years my dad was a car salesman. Only once was he ever cheated out of a commission, and it was NOT by a Toyota dealership.. He was about to go to the labor board over the lost commission (after he was (soon after) already working at another dealership), but then a DEAD BODY turned up in one of the new cars at the commission cheating dealership. He had heard (while working at the dealership) that the root of the ownership money re the dealership was mob money. He decided not to pursue the lost commission. Years later, in a different metropolitan area, I sought to buy a new GTI and pay cash. I purchased $1,000 money orders for 80-90 percent or so of the cost and was going to write a personal check for the remainder. I had totaled the previous new VW I had (with only 7k miles on it) and was driving an extra unneeded car that belonged to my mother, so I didn't need to worry about trading in the car I was driving. I had been watching ads for a few months and finally saw an under sticker ad that met the target price I was looking for. I figured out how many other VW dealerships I could drive to in one day while spending next to nothing on gas, and purchased the money orders re the car purchase (the purpose of the money orders was to show I was ready to buy the car that day and to dissuade the rep from trying to talk me into financing). I brought a friend I hadn't seen recently with me to drive my mother's extra car back to my house. I found one dealership willing to beat the newspaper ad I had in my hand. We agreed on the price and I waited for them to prep the car so I could consummate the deal and drive away. It was already late in the day and they soon said the car wouldn't be ready until the next day. I still had some catching up to do with my friend, and he didn't mind coming back the next day, so it was not a big deal to return the next day. I returned the next day to pick up the car and, the rep told me (after he handed me the keys and I was about to drive away) that the reason I had to come back was not because they hadn't finished prepping the car, IT WAS BECAUSE THEY HAD TO DEALER TRADE WITH THE DEALER FEATURED IN THE AD I HAD IN MY HAND TO GET THE CAR I WANTED! The car they had shown me the previous day was identical to the ad car, but it had already been promised to someone close to the owner of the dealership. I had already looked over the ad car with a fine toothed comb at the other dealership (and they moved it with a flatbed, so the trade didn't put any miles on the car), so I didn't have any issues with the car. I think the rep surmised that it didn't matter if this revelation made me mad or not because I lived far enough away to make it unlikely that I would use them for service needs. He should have cared about how this made VW of America look, but he didn't care.