Feds send checks to CarShield extended warranty customers for 'misleading' ads

[tyroneweaver]

So their commercial is a black man and black woman brow beating some white guy for being stupid.
LOL
ya right. like I am going to buy their product.


SALT LAKE CITY — CarShield ads promised that "you'll never pay for expensive car repairs again." But many Utahns who bought vehicle service plans from the extended warranty provider found their repairs were not covered as promised in those ads.

Feds send checks to CarShield extended warranty customers for 'misleading' ads

The Federal Trade Commission has started sending checks to people it says were misled by advertising for CarShield extended warranty plans.

www.ksl.com

The FTC is sending 168,179 checks totaling more than $9.6 million to eligible people who paid CarShield for a vehicle service contract between September 2019 and September 2024, and had their claim denied.

CarShield Settlement

FTC sends checks to eligible people who paid for a vehicle service contract

www.ftc.gov

 

[Oddball]

Wouldn't shock me to find some Smelis in on the grift.

 

[airplanemechanic]

I recently heard one of these "car warranty" companies denied a guys claim for a new transmission because when the "adjuster" went out to the vehicle to inspect it, he discovered that the replacement tires that had been installed were one size too large than what came with the vehicle, thus saying the large tires caused the transmission to go out, and denied the claim. It was like $6000 dollars.

 

[Concerned American]

How much of this money that the FTC is paying out to these customers is coming from Carshield and not from taxpayers?

 

[LibertyWeeps]

I need a warranty for my old car, but I can't find any service product that doesn't reek of gratuitus grifting and greed.