No consumer rights in NH, only for the used car dealer.. buyer beware.

posted on 21 August 2010 | posted in Business and Finance


My family has learned the hard way that in New Hampshire it is buyer beware on used cars. Once you sign that paper the car is yours. We bought a used car from Empire Auto Group for our daughter. Emily and I test drove the car. She needed to get a car and head up to school all in one day. The little red car looked good. They needed to put new tires on it and clean it. So Emily and I went home to get the insurance information all straightened out. We went back and they pulled the car up. I noticed another red car on truck with other cars going somewhere. The car they pulled around did not have new tires. The salesman told us oh we made a mistake can you come back in an hour. I dropped Emily off and she drove the car home. It was not the car we had tested. This car was the same make but not the car we wanted. She needed to go so I gave her my car to go north with. I called Empire Auto and told them we didn't want the car. They had rushed the paperwork on us. This was a complete used car scam. In New Hampshire there are no consumer rights buying a used car. We tried to bring the car back but they told it we drove it off the lot it is ours.