disposals adverts

[Lang]

Mike

There is a whole string of similar stories in papers around Australia in 1946.

You can see the people are paying double the fixed price.

In most of these stories the buyers are fully aware of the fixed price (readily available for every car under 10 years old) but pretend to be duped by the dealer and report him hoping to get half their money back.

This was one of the reasons the scheme stopped quickly because of the scammers (reverse to normal because the buyer is the scammer). They get a rare car delivered immediately instead of waiting months by paying the black market rate then stab the dealer in the back.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar...eTo=1946-12-31

Lang

[Mike K]

Most of that black market dealing would have been city based . In a rural community, like those smaller regional towns in the Jeep adverts , if a car dealer was taking under the counter payments, he would have been found out and suffer the bad feelings of the local population. Gossip and jealousy abounds in small towns , I know this from experience . " Hey so you got a Jeep from so and so , paid more than the pegged price " before you know it everybody in the town knows what went on . Local car dealer is in the sh*t .

[Lang]

Mike

I think you will find the black market existed everywhere.

The pegged price was so far from the supply and demand forces that everyone accepted they were going to pay more.

Lang

[Mike K]

Lang, at least we are providing some entertainment for the masses of readers here on MLU

The trove site is down ATM

[Mike K]

Dodge advert and White scout cars

[Mike K]

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[Tony Smith]

4x4 Utility Trucks
Aberline's Garage
West Wyalong
Ph: No 1

I'll have to write that number down in case I forget it!