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The Federal Trade Commission and the Maryland Attorney General announced that they reached a settlement with Lindsay Automotive Group and some of its executives, resolving charges that the company’s auto dealer deceived consumers by falsely advertising low prices for their cars. As part of the settlement, the defendants agreed to pay a $3.1 civil penalty to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office as well as to provide redress to consumers.
In announcing the settlement, Christopher Mufarrige, the Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection said, “Lindsay Auto misled consumers by advertising false low car prices and then adding mandatory fees and other charges during the car buying process. The Trump-Vance FTC is focused on ensuring that auto dealers competitors’ are transparently competing on price.”
The FTC and the Maryland AG alleged that the company’s dealers advertised deceptively low prices for cars, and then charged most consumers significantly more than that when they actually came to the dealer to buy the car. They also alleged that the dealers required consumers to finance through the company in order to get the advertised prices and that they charged consumers for add-ons that they didn’t want or didn’t agree to buy…