Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Jiang Shenmin
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How hard is it to buy a Bentley? Still ask for a marriage certificate? But I booked it for my boyfriend...
Recently, Miss Ni, a Jinhua girl, encountered a troublesome matter: two years ago, she spent money to book a Bentley for her boyfriend, which took 3 to 6 months to pick up the goods, because of the shortage of goods, and encountered upgrades and changes, experienced three price increases, signed three agreements before finally determining, picking up the car in April this year. But close to picking up the car, the 4s shop requires various proofs, including marriage certificates or proof of relationship with boyfriends...
What the hell is going on?
Miss Ni said that she originally wanted to surprise her boyfriend on his birthday, so she paid her own deposit and ordered a brand car for her boyfriend that he had always wanted to buy.
This is a happy and romantic thing, but because Miss Ni wants to buy a Bentley, the problem comes - not to mention the several price increases brought about by the lack of stock and the upgrade of the model, the pick-up time has also been extended from one year to two years, and the 4S shop also requires Miss Ni to provide various certificates, household registration books, personal certificates of the boyfriend and his mother, marriage certificates or relationship certificates with the boyfriend.
"The rest is good to say, but how to open the relationship proof? I don't know where to open it! Miss Ni cried and laughed, "How to buy a car is more troublesome than buying a house." ”
The Bentley Bentayga 2022 model that Ms. Ni intends to buy Image from: Visual China
A twist and turn after booking
"In fact, I really don't want to buy a 'luxury car' to look good on the surface, we really want to trust the service of this brand." Miss Ni is a Jinhua, she and her boyfriend have a good family, and both of them have their own companies. After running a business for several years, my boyfriend planned to change cars, "My boyfriend has always liked Bentley, so I thought of giving him a surprise." 」 ”
In 2020, Miss Ni carefully consulted a number of Bentley 4S stores in the Yangtze River Delta region, and finally chose the Bentley showroom in Hangzhou West Lake: "At that time, in comparison, they had the shortest time to pick up the car here, saying that it was within a year, and there was no need for various additions and price increases." ”
Therefore, Miss Ni spent 60,000 yuan on the deposit, the money went to her personal account, and the letterhead written on the agreement was the boyfriend's company. The reason why she wrote the company's head-up, Miss Ni said that it was because when she bought her car, it was in her personal name, and later many friends said that she should hang up her own company name, so that she could deduct value-added tax for reasonable tax avoidance, which is also a more common tax avoidance method for many small and medium-sized enterprises.
Originally, the next step was to wait for the bus. In fact, many people know that Bentley's production line has a "graceful name": the slowest in the world, generally have to wait for 6 months to start. But it's in response to the old saying: The night is long and dreamy. While waiting for the bus, an accident occurred.
First of all, the 21-inch wheel hub was gone, it could only be changed to 20 inches, and some accessories were re-selected, Miss Ni and the 4S shop could only re-sign the agreement, and later said that they wanted to change the model, Miss Ni replaced the car with the 2022 model, but the car pick-up time was extended for another year, extended to March this year, and re-signed the agreement.
"There were many times tossing and turning back and forth in the middle, and I was worried that I would have to wait to change to a 4S store. The third time to sign the agreement, Miss Ni after paying a deposit of 500,000 yuan, feel that good things are more grinding, this time it is finally everything done, right? Unexpectedly, by the first half of 2021, new troubles came.
The 4S shop requires Ms. Ni to provide the necessary proof of car purchase, including his and her boyfriend's personal identity card, household registration booklet, marriage certificate or relationship certificate. Since the boyfriend's corporate legal person is the boyfriend's mother, it is also necessary to provide the mother and child certificates of the boyfriend and his mother.
Image courtesy of Visual China
Is it necessary to provide proof of relationship to buy a car?
"One thing is that I didn't do it right and I have to apologize." In the interview, Miss Ni took the initiative to say that because she ran more of these proofs at that time, she was somewhat upset, and she was originally secretive to her boyfriend to surprise, which required such a series of proofs, which also had to let the boyfriend know. So after the certificate came, Miss Ni sent a bunch of certificates, including a marriage certificate - this certificate was a fake marriage certificate given to PS by the travel agency for the convenience of her boyfriend when she and her boyfriend traveled overseas.
But the 4S store asked for these certificates obviously not to be used for "going through the motions and leaving an archive", because this fake marriage certificate, the car purchase qualification was beaten back. The reporter contacted Bentley Hangzhou West Lake City Store, and Ms. Xu, the staff member responsible for contacting Miss Ni at the time, was also a little depressed: "At that time, we did not expect that there would be a fake certificate, so we typed it through OA, and the result was called back by the headquarters, and it became a list of 'key supervision'." ”
But why provide so many proofs?
In this regard, Ms. Xu explained it this way: because the value of Bentley vehicles is relatively high and the value is relatively preserved, there have been some individuals and enterprises in the past, using public to private means to evade taxes, such as using the company's name to buy cars for non-company personnel, but hanging in the company's name; buying a car in the name of the company, depreciating and selling to individuals in the second year, individuals reselling second-hand and so on. To this end, Bentley has also taken the initiative to tighten supervision and needs to provide the necessary relationship proof.
Because of this fake marriage certificate, it was delayed back and forth for another month. Miss Ni has not yet figured out where to go to beat the proof of her relationship with her boyfriend, and the 4S shop has come to inform her, which may prove that it is useless to fight. Miss Ni's mood came up: Since it is useless, let me play a bunch of proofs for what?
"Is it because the price of the car has been rising, and the official website has risen by 120,000, are they not going to sell to me?" Miss Ni said that after all, the news is asymmetrical, plus a bunch of proofs, and said that the proof is useless, she now does not know whether the 4S store is true or false.
The proof is useless, what to do?
So why does this pile of proof "not work"?
This is also related to the 2020 annual work report submitted by the National Audit Office at the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on June 7, 2021. In the report, the tax-related ticket-related issues in the field of automobile sales were clearly mentioned, especially the problem of "public to private". Of course, the issues raised by the Audit Office are not directly related to Miss Ni's purchase of a car.
However, after this, Bentley also tightened the regulatory requirements for car purchases again, Ms. Xu said: "Now it is basically 'one size fits all', that is, going to the company's account to buy a car must be the company, and the private account to buy a car must be private." ”
And Ms. Ni has entered the "one-size-fits-all" time point because of the "false proof" delay.
As a result, Ms. Ni, who paid the deposit from a private account, had to buy a car in her personal name.
And this has also become the focus of contradictions between the two sides.
Fortunately, at present, after many communications between reporters and the two sides, Ms. Ni has offered to ask whether the vehicle can be changed to her company's name. The 4S store also agrees with this requirement, but the 4S store will return Ms. Ni's deposit and purchase it by walking the company sheet.
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