After over a month of selling 2015 Corvette C7 Stingray and charging buyers hefty $1795 for Personal Data Recorder feature tied to the POS navigation unit, +General Motors finally realized that offering a wiretapping feature on PDR may be breaking some criminal laws.
Of course the solution is to remove the interior voice recording activated with Valet Mode on cars equipped with PDR. However, there is a small problem here: GM offered this feature as a selling point of PDR. Since the feature is no longer available, this may be a cause of false advertisement, in addition to encouraging criminal activities.
Should GM compensate the buyers who have been had, with some kind of financial compensation to account for removing one of the original features? After all, it is not the buyers problem to verify the legality of features offered on the car they purchased. This is definitely something that GM LEGAL DEPARTMENT should have researched before the PDR and Valet option were available.
Deceptive and false advertisement practices are against the law as well, both federal and state. What has just happened with the PDR certainly qualifies as a case of deceptive and false marketing practice.
Seeing how inconsiderate of buyers GM is, most likely, any form of financial compensation to the buyers who have been duped will require a legal action, unfortunately. After all, there has not been a single instance yet when GM volunteered to do anything beneficial to the buyers of their cars, including that latest Corvette disaster, Stingray.
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