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W E N S Y A W L A T NEW IS NO FACEBOOK MARKETPLACE AD: New 2021 Club Car Precedent – Only $4500 There’s a sweeping trend hitting the nation and specifically social media that has customers and golf cart dealers in a bit of an uproar. At any given time on Facebook Marketplace, which is vastly becoming the go to for online golf carts sales in local communities, you will see dozens of golf carts for sale that claim “NEW 2021” or “Brand New” in the title of the post, when in fact they are old refurbished golf carts that were manufactured anywhere between 2006 and 2016 with replacement or remanufactured parts. This misleading trend is deliberately 20 www.GolfCarting.com
tricking unsuspecting customers into thinking these golf carts are brand new or much newer than they really are. The fact is that they are older carts with the manufacture date purposely hidden to help drive more sales and mislead customer into thinking they are getting a smoking great deal. This “sales tactic” according to the FTC (who polices shady and misleading sales practices) is not only illegal but is becoming a serious problem nationwide. A GROWING PROBLEM Researching this article, we didn’t even have to try to hunt for these ad posts; they literally show up in our own personal Facebook news feeds daily. Smaller golf cart “companies” and “ builders” are sprouting up and flooding the marketplace by creating numerous listings on Facebook (sometimes many dozens of posts showing the same cart). Just today we found over 90 posts that had “NEW”, “BRAND
