[urseppos]

Hello All,

I'm in need of some advice regarding being ripped off by a used car dealer in South Carolina.

The car is not a Porsche but I think we have some very nice, intelligent & clued up individuals here on Pelican & hence why I'm reaching out here for some help. I will remove this post immediately if anyone thinks this is inappropriate.

I've been looking for a truck for our daughter to use whilst at her first year of college. She found a nice 04 Tacoma on evilbay & I engaged with the advertisers. They sell used cars in SC, we made a verbal deal after I looked at photos & asked many questions. The add itself represented the truck as top notch but I didn't purchase via ebay as they asked if I didn't mind doing it off of ebay as they could save a few bucks. I agreed, PP'd a $300 deposit & wired the remaining amount of $12.2k via my bank to theirs.

All was good until the truck arrived as I had it shipped down to our place in Florida. The first thing I did was look underneath at the frame & YES there is frame rot ie holes in the frame. I was told no rust & other things the truck had (in the ebay advert) which it does not. The frame is compromised due to the holes & it needs another frame which is not cost effective due to the high expense. I contacted them immediately after receiving the car & they obviously said they had no idea. To top it off the exhaust system was broken in half & just a slew of things that were all misrepresented.

Do I have any recourse whatsoever ? They are offering me another Tacoma which is 2 yrs older & 50k more on the odometer but we just want our money back. They said they can only refund money to another dealer but I told them that I have a dealers license, which I did from the get go & they went very quite at that point. I am not a dealer technically as I work in the medical field but I do have a dealers license for hobby purposes.

Any & all advice & or help would be highly appreciated as I'm not certain what path to take at this point, if there is actually a path to be found. I have maintained being polite as I don't think losing it would help matters.

Thank you all in advance for your help.