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Poll shows that we want subways and we are willing to pay for it
Posted by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Apr 19, 2012 | Politics, Public Transit, TTC, Viva, YRT |
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2012 APA-W5 used car mystery shopper investigation
Posted by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Apr 15, 2012 | Automotive |
2012 APA-W5 used car mystery shopper investigation
For this year’s investigation, the APA mystery shoppers visited 20 used car sellers in the Greater Toronto Area. The shoppers were accompanied by an expert mechanic and all visits were recorded on W5’s cameras. The APA shoppers looked for popular vehicles selling at low prices; this year, the most common models shopped were the Honda Fit and Civic, and Toyota Corolla and Matrix. Sellers were evaluated for the accuracy of their representations. Verbal and advertising representations made about the vehicles offered for sale were double checked by the APA’s expert mechanic and by searching in third-party databases.
Two of the misrepresented salvage cars came from Stark Metal and Iron β a wrecking yard. Among the so-called private sellers, four out of seven had advertised five or more cars from the same phone number over a three month period.
One was a licensed dealer who tried to slip the APA shoppers a car with a slipping clutch. One appeared to be a private party, but he concealed the fact that his car was a rebuilt insurance write-off.
Several “private” advertisers contacted by the APA quickly identified themselves as auto dealers over the phone. One “private” advertiser made an appointment to meet the mystery shoppers at a residential address in Thornhill, and showed up with a used Honda Accord sedan sporting a dealer plate. In Ontario, a dealer is not supposed to sell from a residential address.
The APA has discovered that the worst curber cars it shopped this year and in previous investigations shared some common elements:
- Selling for a low, often below-market price on websites like Kijiji
- Rebuilt wrecks sold by insurance companies to salvage yards and resold at auto auctions (in one case this year, the car was still registered in the name of the auction or a related company when shopped by the APA)
- A dealer, recycler, or autobody shop in the background that appears to be working with the curbsider, who is a sort of front person for the selling activity.
- The private seller (i.e. curber) can arrange for a safety standards certificate and emissions test for the buyer. In some cases, the curber asked only for a copy of the buyer’s driver’s licence and insurance to complete the sale.
- The investigation raised questions about government oversight and the integrity of the salvage rebuilding and re-inspection process; two of the cars shown to the APA shoppers had yet to pass a structural inspection and were still classified as “unfit,” yet they were being shown by private individuals. For one of the cars still classified as “unfit,” the seller’s garage issued the APA shopper a safety standards certificate.
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I forgot to mention Makimono Sushi Restaurants Pickering location
Posted by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Apr 14, 2012 | Ajax, Durham, Food, GTA Culture, GTA Food, Info, Pickering |
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Election Day in Canada – May 2, 2011
Posted by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | May 3, 2011 | Canada, Climate Change, Economy, Election, employment, Environmental Issues, GTA Culture, GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Healthcare, GTA History, GTA Issues, GTA News, GTA Politics, Immigration, Multiculturalism, News, Ontario, Oshawa, Politics, Quebec, Technology, The United States of America, World |
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The Best Sushi in the GTA – Ajax, Ontario in Durham
Posted by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Sep 16, 2008 | Ajax, Food, GTA Food, Multiculturalism, Ontario, Pickering, Toronto |
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Weekend Lakeshore West GO Train service extended starting October 28
Posted by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 29, 2007 | Ontario, Public Transit |
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Toronto and the surrounding regions are not immune to ecological change
Posted by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 20, 2007 | GTA Environment |
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Time to get more use out of the Sheppard Subway line and go west?
Posted by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 20, 2007 | GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Politics, Public Transit, Toronto |
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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said she’s “speechless” about the continued delayed ofΒ the Eglinton Crosstown, saying she’s no more knowledgeable on the project than residents and business owners who’ve been waiting years for it to wrap up.
“I don’t know what to say anymore, it’s leaving me speechless,”Β said Chow.
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