Customer leaves negative review on car dealership after they try to scam him, leading employee to beg customer to take the review down: ‘I am going to be fired’

How hard is it to maintain a business that actually operates according to the law, and does not try to scam their customers? Is scamming customers even worth it? You would think it would have been much better to secure a deal that works for both parties than to lose customer after customer once they realized they were being scammed.

Take the car dealership from this Reddit story as an example. After a customer (OP, original poster), inquired them about a car deal, he quickly realized the deal he was being offered was a clear scam. This led him to leave a negative online review that warned other people of the dealership's wrongdoings. Shortly after he posted his review, the employee from the dealership called OP repeatedly and begged him to remove the review, otherwise, he would get fired from his job, but OP refused. It's almost like every action has its consequences…

Scroll down to read the full story. After you are done, click here for a story of a clever employee who complied with a security guard's demands and caused a massive line holdup.

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