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Originally Posted by Hersbird
Last month I went in to ask about a TJ jeep a local Toyota dealer had listed on the webpage and it was a similar thing. They had actually already sold it which could be expected but it technically never was even on their lot, it was a salesman's private vehicle they moved directly through a wholesale auction only dealers could bid on, so honestly it was never available for sale. Then on top of that it stayed on the webpage as available for a month after that. I don't think it rises to legal bait and switch, but it's annoying and I haven't even bothered looking at that dealer's "inventory" again.
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This anecdote parallels my experience with the news media: you can't trust it to be honest, so suspect everything it says to be misleading until proven otherwise.
IOW, it's the same as listening to a talking politician who you expect to lie. So why bother to listen.
But what I don't understand about such things is: why would any organization want to discredit itself by misleading the public? The only answer I can come up with is: there are enough people out there who are either too dumb or too distracted or too unconcerned to know or care about the difference, so the machinations work well enough to keep on keeping on.