L.A. Car Dealer Settles With FTC Over Deceptive Practices, Advertising

Settlement

A LOS ANGELES-area car dealership group has settled charges of deceptive and unfair sales and financing practices, deceptive advertising, and deceptive online reviews with the FTC.

JOSEPH and MICHAEL SCHRAGE's SAGE AUTOMOTIVE GROUP, owning nine dealerships in the LOS ANGELES area that advertise heavily on radio and television, agreed to pay over $3.6 million to return to consumers and will be barred from future misrepresentations and actions like keeping down payments when a sale is cancelled or trying to have people who miss payments arrested or their cars repossessed.

The dealerships include UNIVERSAL CITY NISSAN, KIA OF DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, GLENDALE NISSAN/INFINITY, MERCEDES-BENZ OF VALENCIA, WEST COVINA TOYOTA, WEST COVINA NISSAN, SAGE COVINA CHEVROLET, SAGE PRE-OWNED NORTH HOLLYWOOD, and SAGE HYUNDAI.

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