[grimmster]

Third, I'm posting this so that those of you on other car boards can link to it - the information should be spread around.

In a nutshell: A VW owner was upset at the quality of the service he recieved at a particular dealer. He posted his observations, comments, and, frankly, rants, on the "main" VW board, VWVortex, in or about July of 2001. As of this writing, that thread has over 12k views. Anyway, the dealer didn't take kindly to this public airing of his complaint. So they sued him for defamation.

Read the Atlanta Journal Constitution Newspaper Article (link will expire in on Friday, I believe):
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/ep...4b70b60008.html

Thee original thread that started this suit http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=52126

Results of Monday, november 19 Hearing on injunction can be found on page 6 of this thread.

Spread the word and judge for yourself - we're all affected.

 

[1mz-fe]

wow, that is really amazing. i looked thru that thread and some of the reports of service from that dealer are unbelieveable. in the end that dealer will get what he deserves...you can't spite people for voicing their opinions in the age of the internet. that dealer is gonna get slammed in the courtroom and his reputation is gonna be far worse than it would have been after the original post.

 

[Warlord187]

Why in the hell do dealers treat their customers like **** to begin with? They obviously have no business sense.

 

[p3]

grrr...stupid people piss me off. I hope that stupid dealer gets everything he has coming to him and then some...

 

[DMAG]

Great, and mine's going in for belts and a trans filter next week. Yippee!

 

[p3]

to add to my previous statement, that guy should bring this up to the VW company itself...i bet they would just love to hear that they have a dealer giving crappy service and treating cutomers like crap.