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The scale of the domestic used car market is growing rapidly, but the integrity system of the used car industry has always been unable to establish, and the trading trap in the transaction process makes it difficult for consumers to guard against. Especially after the Internet has become an important propaganda channel, the behavior of false information and low-price deception is rampant. As a result, a number of second-hand car dealers began to boycott the immoral behavior that disrupted the healthy development of the market, putting up red banners in their stores saying "beware of false low-price stickers on the Internet and stay away from bad intermediaries."

According to the Wuhan Automobile Circulation Industry Association, a few days ago, most used car merchants in the city responded by hanging "buying and selling used cars, please go to physical stores, beware of false low-price stickers on the Internet, and stay away from bad intermediaries to look at" red banners.

This kind of collective appeal for boycott by second-hand car dealers is relatively rare in the industry. The association said the move is a joint action by most physical second-hand car dealers to purify the used car market and persuade consumers to identify intermediary agents and online false low-price information to disturb the market.

The association also said that since the end of 2018, many people in the used car market have spread false low-price information on various Internet media to attract and deceive customers. Many customers are cheated into buying and selling used cars. in fact, the traded vehicles are not the vehicles that they began to see in the online media. there are a lot of behaviors that deceive consumers, and even forced to threaten consumers. it has a great negative impact on the used car market.

In fact, it is not only used cars, but also new car sales. Many unscrupulous merchants attract customers by spreading low prices or even ultra-low prices in the online media. after customers pay the deposit, they say that there are no existing cars and other reasons, and do not trade according to the agreed prices and vehicles at that time, resulting in an upward trend in car consumption complaints. Therefore, the association reminds consumers that when buying and selling vehicles, they must determine the physical storefront, because most intermediaries or agents do not have real cars, and the true and reliable source of information must be the owner of physical storefront vehicles.

In addition to false information on the Internet, chaos in the second-hand car industry has always existed, and it is difficult to establish an integrity system. For example, there are chaotic phenomena such as the sale of accident cars, falsification of mileage data, overcharging for clever reasons, vague contracts, and difficult delivery of service promises, and there are even black car dealers suspected of "criminal and evil forces." Correspondingly, the rights protection cases caused by the sale of second-hand cars continue to be staged.

The reason for this phenomenon is that the second-hand car market is lack of effective management means, lack of industry supervision, mixed fish and dragons in the market, and black car dealers or individuals seek exorbitant profits by improper means, which makes it difficult to protect the rights and interests of consumers. Under the vicious circle, it seriously affects consumers' trust in the second-hand car market.

Some people in the industry pointed out that the most important thing is that "black car dealers" are mostly scattered self-employed or small merchants, and the amount involved after the transaction between the two parties is relatively low, and it is difficult for consumers to provide proof and identification, and it is difficult for relevant departments to accept them. Consumers can only bring a lawsuit to the court, or complain to the consumer association about "black car dealers", but due to the input of time cost and related fees, most of the rights protection comes to nothing in the end.

For a long time, the relevant departments have cracked down on the chaotic trading in the second-hand car market, and banned illegal car dealers in accordance with the law, but it only plays a temporary warning role in the general environment.

Finally, what kind of role can the collective appeal of second-hand car dealers play? Will it work? The association said that the integrity of second-hand car dealers should be corrected, consumers should be reminded of fraud prevention, and people from all walks of life should pay attention to phenomena such as false information on the Internet that affect the healthy development of the industry. The more people respond, the more obvious the effect will be.

According to the China Automobile Circulation Association, a total of 13.2363 million used cars were traded nationwide from January to November 2019, an increase of 5.01 percent over the same period last year, with a transaction value of 831.759 billion yuan. From the perspective of regional distribution, East China accounts for more than 1/3, with a total of 4.4299 million vehicles traded, accounting for 33.47% of the national trading volume. This was followed by South Central and North China, with 3.1852 million and 2.0212 million vehicles respectively, accounting for 24.06 per cent and 15.27 per cent of the national trading volume.

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