Most likely some part of the string matches the VIN number. Dealers are legally required to post the VIN of an actual vehicle in any advertisements that have a price, as a way of preventing bait-and-switch.
In Europe VIN's of cars are treated a little like SSN's are treated in the US. Some governments assume that just because you know the VIN of a vehicle, you must be it's owner, despite many vehicles having the VIN written on every bit of glass and visible without even unlocking the car...
In the US, the VIN must be visible from the outside of the vehicle, through the windshield on the driver's side. Covering the VIN from view is illegal.
It was a PDF. I copy-pasted the text behind the black box and got the full VIN.
You're such a hacker. As the world turns now, I'd expect some legislation that says if you copy the text from a badly created PDF, then you are the one to blame and not the one that made the bad document. You're clearly circumventing the intent. You you...criminal.
Or just claiming the vehicle is currently unavailable or not yet for sale because it's in the shop/in use as a loaner/the manager has a hold on it or some BS, but here's a very similar vehicle that we'd love to unload on you!
It's very technically legal because they do have the vehicle in their inventory, and you can test drive and buy it, but just not right then.
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Most likely some part of the string matches the VIN number. Dealers are legally required to post the VIN of an actual vehicle in any advertisements that have a price, as a way of preventing bait-and-switch.
Funny, in Europe that's absolutely not the case.
I watched some government sale and they posted a PDF vehicles for sale that were forfeited.
The VINs where there but parts of it where blacked out.
It was a PDF. I copy-pasted the text behind the black box and got the full VIN.
In Europe VIN's of cars are treated a little like SSN's are treated in the US. Some governments assume that just because you know the VIN of a vehicle, you must be it's owner, despite many vehicles having the VIN written on every bit of glass and visible without even unlocking the car...
In the US, the VIN must be visible from the outside of the vehicle, through the windshield on the driver's side. Covering the VIN from view is illegal.
You're such a hacker. As the world turns now, I'd expect some legislation that says if you copy the text from a badly created PDF, then you are the one to blame and not the one that made the bad document. You're clearly circumventing the intent. You you...criminal.
And yet they still bait and switch. Most recently-ish with added markups not in their online price.
Or just claiming the vehicle is currently unavailable or not yet for sale because it's in the shop/in use as a loaner/the manager has a hold on it or some BS, but here's a very similar vehicle that we'd love to unload on you!
It's very technically legal because they do have the vehicle in their inventory, and you can test drive and buy it, but just not right then.