Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-19
USED CAR DEALERS
SEEK SUPPRESSION
OF CURBST0NE EVIL
Associations After Fraudulent
Dealers Who Dupe Purchas-
ers by Posing as Individual
Car Owners in Need of Cash.

interests of both buyer and dealer in
the used car trade are better protected
than they formerly were by the es-
Establishment of markets and exchanges
and by the formation of associations OF
used car dealers. This branch of the
business has naturally grown with the
increasing number of motor cars in
the country, and has its own peculiar
phases.
The purchaser of a used car, after
securing what he thinks is a bargain
from a private owner, often finds that
he has been swindled in much the
same way that the horse buyer is
sometimes taken in. Sometimes the
pretense of the seller that he is part
ing with his personal property is only
a pose and he is in reality a regular
dealer in used cars.
Such a dealer, conducting his sales
as a private owner, works an injus
tice at the same time to the dealer
who openly conducts a used car mar
ket and pays his license on that basis
Thus the buyer and dealer are both
concerned in measures to thwart the
dishonest curbstone seller.
H.RE INVESTIGATOR
Dealers in used cars in the larger
cities have formed associations of their
own distinct from the usual trade or
carnations, and are adopting means to
protect themselves and their custo-
mers. Some of them employ inVestiga
tons of dealers who camouflage then
business. There is no interference
with individual owners who desire tc
sell their cars. Naturally they cannot
be compelled to bring them to the deal
ers, any more than distributors of new
cars can be compelled to dispose of the
cars taken in on trades through the
RI of II is nnsSihlp &c
bring to a halt the habitual offenders
who come into unfair competition witt
the licensed dealers, and this the asso-
Citations are doing.
! City ordinances are urged requir-
ling all dealers to maintain an estab-
lshed place of business with "A sign il
the English language designating it.
| One of the cities taking these for
ward steps in Los Angeles. Il. b. Cal.
vert, secretary of the Used Car Deal
ers' association there, has pointed on
some of the trade evils the organiza
ton is trying to wipe out. lie says:
JUST STRAIGHT BUSINESS
| NO member of the Used Car Deal
ers' association would think of trying
to effect sale by resortng to pies
such as sickness, or an enforced return
cast and similar reasons given by ques
Itionable dealers. OF course, there ar
times when illness does make it neceS
Sary for an individual owner TO sell ;
car. or the other reasons might hol(
in the case of an individual.
1T is just as well for the public t.
understand that a dealer in used car
conducts his business along the chan
nels of straight business. His reason
for wanting to sell a car is that n
feels he has something someone reall,
wants. something that will give tn
service he says il will, something tina
if sold at a price represents a return
to him that merely repays him 70
handling the transaction with mar
gin of profit that is always a fair one
A bona fide used car dealer can al
ways be located by a person after
car has been purchased, whether it !
an hour or a year later