NYC123,
I'm glad you got the issue resolved. This situation had to be a nightmare. This is good information to put out there for anyone thinking of purchasing a car from this guy. I'm glad you got it resolved.

 

I'm glad to see that 930cruz dug this old thread up to support someone who he obviously doesn't know as well as he thinks. I'll bet that person wished he hadn't though.

At least this brought NYC back to the thread to fill in the real history and put to bed the fact that the dealer was a out and out swindler.

Hopefully people who are considering buying from him in the future will come across this thread and exercise real caution before taking the plunge.

 

Clearly just because of my experience with him it does not mean that many of the cars he has for sale are not nice, for all I know the majority of them could be fantastic I have no clue. But what I do know is that he is a very dishonest person and tried as hard as possible to screw me and lied over and over again to my face, and people can do what they wish with that information

 

I'm sure there are a lot of happy customers out there who think the world of him. They're the lucky ones. Had he not been aware of the previous damage and sold the car to you, you could argue that you were both duped. Whether he elected to take the car back at that point or not would indicate whether he is a wise businessman or not.

However, he knowingly purchased a salvage car at a bargain price with the full intent to screw an unaware customer to maximize his profit. That's not bad judgement, that's flatly dishonest. And if he was willing to do it to you then you can bet you're not the only one out there that he's done it to, and probably won't be the last.

As a frequent purchaser of pristine, lightly used high end cars I can say you've done a service for the rest of us when we're doing our pre-purchase due diligence.

 

Well, I'm glad you got your situation resolved. I can only imagine that you're happy to finally put this behind you. Thank you for putting this out there for others to see and use your experiences in helping make their decisions when deciding if they would want to deal with Bruce Canepa. It is unfortunate however that he hasn't had legal consequences to keep him from these types of dealings in the future. Unfortunately the Law doesn't seem to care that much about fraud unless it's through the mail or on wall street. Then the authorities finally do something. Anyway, I'm glad you could finally move on and in the process given valuable info for others to use. Happy Thanksgiving!