mike bennet and his buddy mud the merc and the d.j. are exposed for the low life grifters and yonks that they are throughout this film, they are like the "travellers conman" group, flying in to fleece the locals and leaving before the rubes rise up. a totally satisfing movie that exposes (once again) the dark underbelly of car salesmen and hoopty sellers.
shareIt was interesting how Bennett was so adamantly hateful of people who lie to sell (of course, maybe it was just the coke talking), and then the entire time he basically is lying to the customers. All the "slashes" are already built into the prices initially placed on the cars. And then there was the poor girl who bought the car for $88 that failed to work after she got it home and then promptly began to fall apart. The stereotype of the used car salesman lives on. How comforting.
shareThe little blue-green 88 bucker looked like it was fogging mosquitos when it left the lot. The girl better invest in a case or two of oil, if it runs that long.
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Get over yourself! Who buys a car for $88 and expects it to run form more than 30 minutes? You get what you pay for and, at her age anyway, she should have known better. Quit blaming the dealership, the salesmen, and the the "Slasher." Nobody works for free, and profit is NOT a dirty word...
shareThe Slasher did that town a huge service.
He went to a low income town and sold low cost transportation. The girl that got the first $88 vehicle was going to use it to get to college. There she was sitting at home, pregnant, collecting welfare checks...
SLASHER TO THE RESCUE...She's off to college. The slasher is a hero.
Watched this documentary last night via Netflix. Very good and entertaining, but I thought it was fairly tame and a bit on the ordinary side. They could have dug more into the seedy side of car sales and the tactics they ploy to reel customers in. Didn't rate up there with shows like "King Of Cars"... but it was interesting.
I liked the segment where the family took that $88 green car home to surprise their daughter. Her expression was priceless. She was about as excited as a mud fence.
That scene with the $88 victim almost seemed staged, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt here.
This film had so much potential, but I didn't see any insight into the car huckster's job – just an affirmation that used-card salesmen are, indeed, sleazy. 5/10 stars from me.