Replies to post #24351 on Dream Machine

[mimurray]

Fell for what?? They didn't say it's a dealers only web site and the guy from FOX was logging on from one of their personal computers.

Any way you look at it that's an unsettling warning screen. And it's not warning any dealer about using the site, it's warning any "user" accessing the site.

[tc]

I don't know good or bad about fox but the website being flaunted as such a big brother snoop is for dealers, not the public. The consumer going there to check and see if his/her clunker qualifies for the discount never sees all that agreement stuff. I checked last week and went through no agreements to check a car.

[By Any Other Name]

re: "Did anybody pay attention to the fact that they talked about a dealer logging into the system [and] NOT a private citizen visiting the web site..."

We all agree that it was done in a manner to: relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation

Yes, just as the lady there was required to be "eye candy" for men :)

But seriously, as you point out "the dealer might be concerned about the information on the system," is not fully done by you since while near all of the information entered by the dealer pertains to the non-dealer private citizen doing that clunker trade in, it appears that the dealership's computer system at large is captured by the goverment to be used any way they decide to use it.

If true, then all customer activity past, present, and future engaged by that dealer is now legally the property of the government.

Hopefully this account of mine is incorrect since a foreign government was mentioned as also having access.

But then my expectation of my government to be correct and use common sense was lost many years ago.

rose