"Price Is Right" winner claims new car a wreck
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"Price Is Right" winner claims new car a wreck
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071215/tv_nm/price_dc
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The price was all wrong for one contestant on "The Price Is Right," who claims the TV game show and its authorized auto dealership tried to pass off a rehabilitated wreck as a new car she won.
Donna Tillman said she won the 2004 Pontiac GTO Coupe during her June 28, 2004, appearance on the game show. But she was told after she paid the taxes and license fees that the vehicle that appeared on the stage had mechanical problems, according to a lawsuit filed on Thursday in Los Angeles.
When the car was delivered about eight weeks later, it was not the model that had been displayed on the show and it had more miles on the odometer than the car she had been promised.
Several months later when Tillman took her prize for a service at a dealership in her hometown of Puyallup, Washington, she learned the car had major damage to its frame that had been repaired and concealed, the lawsuit said.
Tom George, the owner of Pontiac dealership Thorson Motor Center, said Tillman received "a brand new car" and only claimed it had been previously damaged after she wrecked it herself.
"There is no record of it being in a wreck," George said.
A spokesman for Tillman said her minor fender bender led to discovery of the previous damage.
"It had been reconstructed underneath to look like a new vehicle but it was not," said law firm spokesman Geoff Dulebohn. "What is clear is that she did not receive a new car."
A spokeswoman for "The Price Is Right" had no comment.
"The Price is Right," which airs on the CBS television network, ranks as America's longest-running game show and was hosted for 35 years by Bob Barker.
Actor-comedian Drew Carey took over as host of the show, in which contestants win prizes by guessing the cost of consumer goods, after Barker's retirement in June.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The price was all wrong for one contestant on "The Price Is Right," who claims the TV game show and its authorized auto dealership tried to pass off a rehabilitated wreck as a new car she won.
Donna Tillman said she won the 2004 Pontiac GTO Coupe during her June 28, 2004, appearance on the game show. But she was told after she paid the taxes and license fees that the vehicle that appeared on the stage had mechanical problems, according to a lawsuit filed on Thursday in Los Angeles.
When the car was delivered about eight weeks later, it was not the model that had been displayed on the show and it had more miles on the odometer than the car she had been promised.
Several months later when Tillman took her prize for a service at a dealership in her hometown of Puyallup, Washington, she learned the car had major damage to its frame that had been repaired and concealed, the lawsuit said.
Tom George, the owner of Pontiac dealership Thorson Motor Center, said Tillman received "a brand new car" and only claimed it had been previously damaged after she wrecked it herself.
"There is no record of it being in a wreck," George said.
A spokesman for Tillman said her minor fender bender led to discovery of the previous damage.
"It had been reconstructed underneath to look like a new vehicle but it was not," said law firm spokesman Geoff Dulebohn. "What is clear is that she did not receive a new car."
A spokeswoman for "The Price Is Right" had no comment.
"The Price is Right," which airs on the CBS television network, ranks as America's longest-running game show and was hosted for 35 years by Bob Barker.
Actor-comedian Drew Carey took over as host of the show, in which contestants win prizes by guessing the cost of consumer goods, after Barker's retirement in June.
Reuters/Nielsen
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LOL
wow i guess it shows you that you should do an inspection yourself before signing anything? i dont know...
well isnt a "new" car still considered new even if it has like 3000 miles on it?
kinda wierd that she had a "fender bender" but they had to look at the frame? maybe she did wreck the car herself?
wow i guess it shows you that you should do an inspection yourself before signing anything? i dont know...
well isnt a "new" car still considered new even if it has like 3000 miles on it?
kinda wierd that she had a "fender bender" but they had to look at the frame? maybe she did wreck the car herself?
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An automobile is considered "new" as long as it hasn't been titled into an owners name. If there was damage to the vehicle before she titled it then it was a damaged/wrecked "new" car. If the model and options were different then what she won, she should of never signed off on it.
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I used to work for a body shop and I was told by the owner that a dealer can bring in a new auto for repair and as long as the damage was less than $1000.00 they do not need to claim it has been damaged. That was in 1992.
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It really depends on the local laws. When I was working for Carmax we'd have people bring in some real junkers they'd bought as new or "certified used" and had massive undisclosed frame and structural damage. As a rule, vehicles cannot leave the factory with structural damage, but once the delivery dealership has the car, anything goes.
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