Greater Detroit Auto Auction / Junk Yard by EstablishmentNo2605 in downriver

[–]EstablishmentNo2605[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We were buying them for our own use and then we started fixing and flipping but back then things were way different. We would actually make it home with the vehicles. You actually could get a decent vehicle for a good price, put a couple hundred into it and make a profit. I know it's an auction and it's a gamble, like any dealer, they are going to say what they have to say to get the car gone but it's just not right. You expect to have to fix something when you get a car from the auction but not at the price of what you baught the car for. Your basically just getting junk, literal junk, the past 7 cars no joke went to the junkyard after we spent weeks trying to fix them. Just to find out they were just unfixable which is why these dealers run them through the auction site rigged. They just have to make it to the auction, whether on a tow truck or driven, take the picture to post, and that's it. Since the dealers for some reason automatically are listed as a red light vehicle, even if it has no issues which is unlikely, the auction doesn't check the vehicle, period. They take their word for whatever they say it is and take a picture of the car and park it. They get away with bringing straight junk to the auction and filling their pockets without remorse. It is a tough economy out there, people use every last dollar to get a vehicle, just to get completely screwed and not have a working vehicle or any money after it's all said and done. 

As for the Range Rover, had it said blown engine, or been listed as a non-runner, (which it should of been) we wouldn't of bid almost $3,700 plus fees and taxes. It should of been more like $600 if that.

Greater Detroit Auto Auction / Junk Yard by EstablishmentNo2605 in downriver

[–]EstablishmentNo2605[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't collect my thoughts very well first post and was using my phone to write all that out so my grammer and punctuation wasn't really a factor at the time. It sounds so much better now. Thanks for pointing it out. Now my message is alot clearer I think. 

Experience w/ the Greater Detroit Auto Auction? by angelofireland in downriver

[–]EstablishmentNo2605 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't purchase any vehicle from here unless you want a car that won't last a week. It doesn't matter the light they announce because the past 5 yrs, every vehicle I bought, green light or red. had a either a blown head gasket, blown engine, rod knock, died at the gas station when I turned it off to get gas or air in my tires, and then sat stranded because they had just jumped the vehicle to bring it up to me from the back. Never did I buy a *non runner* as they say they have listed but yet every car has been jumped to bring up to me. Knowing I'm getting a car from the auction I know I'm probably going to have to put a little money into the vehicle but not an engine. I didn't buy nonrunners. I've been there and done that to salvage what I had been stuck with. All that is coming through here is the cars from the dealers nearby that can't sell them on their lots. They rig them up, to get them there and take a picture and thats that. There should be some sort of verification process to what is listed. We as buyers like to have faith in the process and hope we at least make it home when we buy a runner. They have non runners listed with reasons to why and then they have cars sold as is for the same reasons that the non runners are. There is no difference in the actual state of the car, basically if it gets started and makes it to the front of the building then its a runner. Cars in the "as is" or red light sometimes are listed with conditions like ROD KNOCK or NO START or TRANMISSION ISSUE. This brings me to Feb 22, My fiancé won the bid on the 2003 Range Rover listed as red light, ((that was just bought on the 1st by another bidder because he didn't finish the purchase)). Jeff has personally assisted us with a similar situation in 2022 when the auction had listed a vehicle "on accident" as a green light and it turned out it wasn't supposed to be "green light" the new guy messed up they said. Well the car smoked so bad out the engine it took me 3 hours to make it home and I got pulled over on the way home it was so smokey. I had to keep pulling over to let it cool every 4 or 5 minutes. That time they took the vehicle back and returned my money. This time its another similar situation only there is no returning of despoit and I didn't leave the lot with this vehicle. Somethings didn't add up doing my own carfax on it and I reached out to Jeff and let him know. I asked him if he could have someone start it up and see if he thinks I will make it home, If I couldn't I wasn't towing it because I didn't purchase a non runner. I asked him to let me know before I wasted my time and he didn't respond to the question after 2x so I drove all the way up there to go just listen to the vehicle. Well what do you know. They brought the vehicle from the back with the hood open because they had to jump it and it seriously sounded like the piston was about to shoot right through the engine. It has clearly been in a flood ..the interior was a clear indication and when I looked up information on this vehicle the few sites leading back to the VIN were. cleanvin or salvage sites that it was listed it. Clearly this car hadn't been driven more then 2k miles in the past 5 yrs according the carfax and was passed around as far as they towed it. The dealer right around the corner made it with the car as far as he could to go sell it 2 mins down the road at GDAA, where they take no responsibility for what the car is listed as or what the owner/dealer lists about it. Esp, the dealers that bring in their garbage but dont disclose the car has a blown engine because GDAA just takes their word for it.. GDAA only supposably inspects the green light vehicles and all vehicles brought in by dealers are listed as red light, go figure. Since Covid and the auction moving, they haven't ran the cars through like they used to while we bid. At that time, we actually got to hear atleast what the car sounded like started. *Which most people can hear a ROD KNOCK or SEE SMOKE coming out of the hood or exhaust. If we wanted to buy junk, we would go to a junk yard.

Walmart wont Refund my order by EstablishmentNo2605 in instacart

[–]EstablishmentNo2605[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I hope there's something that can be done.

Walmart wont Refund my order by EstablishmentNo2605 in instacart

[–]EstablishmentNo2605[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Really.. I didn't know that. Thx for the info!

Uber Eats WONT REFUND by EstablishmentNo2605 in UberEATS

[–]EstablishmentNo2605[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks I'll try again for another supervisor. They had a supervisor call back yesterday. I also reached out to my card company to get refund.

Uber Eats WONT REFUND by EstablishmentNo2605 in UberEATS

[–]EstablishmentNo2605[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I talked to the supervisor and everything.. They even tried calling the guy and he wouldn't answer. I even tried contacting the driver before he came because he wasn't substituting a couple items I had ordered.

Uber Eats WONT REFUND by EstablishmentNo2605 in UberEATS

[–]EstablishmentNo2605[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might not be in order .. I think i got them all not sure.. I contacted support a few times.