Chevy Dealership Has Guy Arrested When They Sell Him A Car For $5,600 Lower Than Asking Price And Then He Won’t Sign A New Contract When They Realize Their Mistake
DM – A Virginia man went to a Chevrolet dealership to buy a new SUV but ended up in jail when a sales representative sold him a vehicle for the wrong price, and then accused him of stealing it. Danny Sawyer, 40, spent four hours behind bars after purchasing a 2012 Chevrolet Traverse from Priority Chevrolet in Chesapeake in May. According to a pair of lawsuit filed recently by the Virginia resident, the dealership’s staff sold him the SUV for $5,600 less than they should have, and then informed the buyer that he must sign a new contract for the correct amount. When Sawyer refused, the suits allege, a dealership employee called police and had him arrested after claiming that he had stolen the SUV. Dennis Ellmer, president of Priority Chevrolet, had issued apologies to Sawyer, saying that he never should have been incarcerated. In addition to his mea culpa, Ellmer, who manages all 11 dealerships in the Priority Auto Group, also offered to let Sawyer have the SUV at the lower price, but the 40-year-old said it is too late for that, according to the Virginian-Pilot.
Wait can you just do that? You can just call the cops and say you want somebody arrested and the cops are just like okay and show up and arrest the person and then figure out whether that person did anything illegal afterwards? That’s kind of awesome. I’d be throwing people in jail every two seconds. Seriously why didn’t this guy just show the cops his paperwork? Strange.
Regardless got to love the President of Priority Chevrolet now offering to give him the SUV at a lower price. Car salesman just never know when to quit. Bro he’s going to own the dealership by the end of the year. I think it’s a little late for a $500 dollar rebate. Your salesman fucked up. The guy has a signed contract. You can’t force somebody to sign a new contract when they already have a better contract. That’s the whole point of contracts. Deal with it.


The cops should be sued here too. Now way if he had a signed contract in hand was it a theft. A civil issue yes but not an arrestable offense.
i just called Chicago PD, they are on their way to lock up Neil right now. we’ll sort out the actual charges later
If you had Neil sign a contract you should call the cops on him until he signs your new contact to work for free or die
If you had Neil sign a contract you should call the cops on him until he signs your new contact to work for free or die
just heard on the police Scanner “Suspect Neil” was waiting on the corner bags packed… can’t wait to get back to the meat train.
Pretty sure he didn’t have the contract in hand rearender get your head out of your rearend before you type
The guy has a signed contract and was wrongfully arrested for theft. He could sue for punitive damages.
this auto dealer would fit right in with the nhl owners
The guy who got arrested has already filed a lawsuit seeking $2.2 million in damages. GM ends up putting rebates that big on gas guzzlers most of the time anyways. Pretty dumb.
Neil should be arrested for raping my eyes every time a blog of his is posted on the Superblog.
This is ridiculous. Doesn’t anyone watch Its Always Sunny? Just eat the contract. Boom, solved.
where did you get $500 less from? “also offered to let Sawyer have the SUV at the lower price” to me that says the owner said he can have the car at the original price… yeah no shit, thanks for allowing that dickhead
There’s more to this story then Bar Stool reported (shocker!) They didn’t sell him the car at the wrong price. The actual story was in the paper a few days ago. The guy bought one car under contract. Took it home and came back the next day to say he didn’t like the ride. He traded his already purchased vehicle for a similar car in a different color. The “similar” vehicle was obviously loaded differently (better) and the salesman made a mistake by not having him sit down and renegotiate. After the mistake was caught by management, the buyer was called several times but he refused to come in a renegotiate on a car he felt he already bought fair and square.
Dennis is doing what any smart business man would have done and tried to get rid of the bad pub and possible lawsuit (more bad pub) by offering the guy to keep the car as is. Cheap for Dennis to get out of the deal only out $5600.00….the equivalent to a nice dinner for him.
The salesman made a mistake, yes. The guy who bought the car is testing the system.
Bluntzilla this dealership pays minimum $250k settlement to this plaintiff. False police report by employee reporting theft. Guy gets arrested. Story goes viral. Done.
He’s not testing the system. He’s working the system. Score one for the little Guy fuck these scumbag salesman always trying to sell use paint packages and moonroofs and giving you shit offers for your trade in
Yeah I’m a manager at a car dealership and every place I know of has you sign a form stating that if any wrong information was printed you agree, by law, to resign. It’s mainly used to protect people when they misspell your name or something, but sometimes numbers come into play…
Ha! Let him have it at a lower price?!?! The smart business move here is to give him a vehicle for free, as a good faith gesture because your salesman made a mistake and as a result the guy spent 4 hours in jail. If you want to avoid the bad publicity you offer him a free vehicle and work it out with him behind the scenes. Whatever it takes not to have your dealership end up in the news. This owner fucked up