
Dealer Ads and the FTC
The agency has made it clear in recent enforcement actions and warnings, in auto retail and other industries, that advertised prices must include all nonoptional costs to the consumer.
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The agency has made it clear in recent enforcement actions and warnings, in auto retail and other industries, that advertised prices must include all nonoptional costs to the consumer.
Read More →DealerVault and its holding company, Data Specialty Group LLC, have merged into Authenticom LLC, creating one company serving more than 15,000 dealerships across the company, the companies announced today.
Read More →Results of an online consumer survey conducted by Total Dealer Compliance show high levels of consumer dissatisfaction with how dealers resolve their complaints.
Read More →The bureau charged the title lenders with violating the Truth in Lending Act for failing to disclose annual percentage rates in online loan advertisements. It is seeking civil monetary penalties and administrative orders requiring the companies to correct their practices.
Read More →The Federal Trade Commission issued a second Federal Register Notice (FRN) on a proposed qualitative survey that would examine the experience of buying and financing a car at a dealership.
Read More →Auto/Mate announced this week plans to integrate Traffic Control’s customer relationship management (CRM), internet lead management (ILM) and employee activity management (EAM) systems into its own dealership management system (DMS).
Read More →More than 16,000 independent dealerships will gain the ability to digitally rate, econtract, capture electronic signatures and submit contracts for more than 130 F&I aftermarket product provider as part of a recently announced partnership between Frazer and F&I Express.
Read More →Three Dallas-area dealerships have agreed to pay $85,000 to settle charges that they violated a 2014 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) administrative order that barred them from deceptively advertising the cost of buying or leasing a car.
Read More →Scheduled for Aug. 29-30, Compliance Summit is designed to deliver a crash course in federal regulations and enforcement action to help dealers, agents and industry execs build sustainable sales and F&I processes without sacrificing productivity and profitability.
Read More →The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s small-dollar lending rule would neither adequately protect borrowers, nor address the risks created by the shift toward installment credit in the payday and auto title lending market, an analysis by Pew Charitable Trusts concludes.
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ADESA named Steve Swanson general manager of its Colorado Springs location, Cindy Kuhn regional online manager, and Rich Levene general manager of ADESA Austin.
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