• PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Interesting story. I believe that Kia dealer in “Lie-ma” is going to offer her a free car.

    If they decide to go to court over the dealer name, which she now owns, the legal process may turn over stones and shine too much light on them. Dealerships don’t like to do that. Even this “repo” or recovery could be a variation of a “yo-yo” scam, but they’d have to be working with the finance company for that to work in this case, I think. Still a maybe. For now, she’s out a car and if she had a trade-in that’s likely gone too. But I think that will change soon enough. Good on her!

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      20 hours ago

      Hey, you said it right. So many people pronounce it Lee-ma, like Lima, Puru. But it’s really pronounced Lie-ma.

      I get you probably meant it as a joke, but still… And of course, a joke someone might learn something from, well, that joke just became 10% better. Or was ruined completely. It can go either way… But it is Lima (Lie-ma), Ohio.