the POS avoided a DWI so the LEAST it could do is pay off the car...Did he have a luncheon with Bill Moyers?
Why isn’t Zucky in the slammer?
Won’t be long before an ambulance-chaser starts the “pain and suffering, loss of sleep, mental anguish, loss of consortium, etc” arguments to get into the DEEP pockets of Zuckerman......
If Zuckerman had any decency he’s buy her a brand new car - better than the one she had before. That’d be pocket change for him.
the POS avoided a DWI so the LEAST it could do is pay off the car...No. The insurance company paid her the full value of the car (assuming the insurance company isn't cheating her by paying wholesale rather than retail). Her problem is that she was upside down on her loan. If she had paid cash for her car when she bought it she would have gotten the same $13,000.
I just checked Kelley Blue Book and they listed $11,249 as the private party sale value for a Focus SE (since I didn't know the exact model). $13k doesn't seem like a ripoff settlement.
Since she knows who hit her car I would think that this would be a simple matter to fix in small claims court. Failing that she should be making a lot of noise about a fat cat skating on a hit and run charge.
I looked up a low mileage 2009 Fusion SEL V6 with a Manhattan zip code and got $13,123 in good condition for a private sale which is $2k higher than the ACV “dealer trade in” of $11,138
Lifes tough ,, it’s always a bad deal to be upside down on a car but that’s not Zuckermans problem... she should have had “GAP” insurance, it’s a cheap rider.
Zuckerman is a LIBERAL. Worse yet, he is a RICH liberal.
Those kind of people think they are not answerable to anyone, especially a low-life Starbucks manager-type. Who is she to question the rich liberal’s greatness?
Remember, this is the same guy that wrote Obama’s Styrofoam columns stadium speech.
isn’t a hit and run a big deal anymore ?
Doesn’t matter what his insurer says.
You hit a parked car, you pay.
I’d get an attorney and sue for tortuous relief.
Actually it's the principal, plus the interest.
Unless she's talking about the unfairness, in which case it would be a principle but not the principal.
Don't journo's have to take English courses anymore?
Also, note in the future:
“if you buy a car on credit always purchase GAP insurance. $20 bucks a year and your car would be paid off. then you go get another loan”.
I do wonder how you could possibly owe so much much money on a 4 year old car.
I just bought a New Fusion for $23k.
Too bad there isn’t a REAL “Leverage” group to help the lady.
Members of the Tribe are not bothered by the petty concerns of the little people.
hmmmm.... Zuckerman left the scene of the accident and avoided getting busted for DUI etc. if he’d had a few drinks, as is likely!! Does a sober person ram into a parked car on a clear dry day????? I don’t think so!!
Lock the bastard up if he doesn't make it right.