Car buyers deserve consumer rights

The New Jersey Legislature should enact a law for consumers, which would require a car dealer to provide the customer a conspicuous written notice giving the customer one business day to sign the automobile purchase contract. One local automobile dealer recently smooth-talked me into signing a purchase contract on-the-spot for a brand new car. I feel as if I have been hustled! Now I am locked in to pay $500 per months for 72 months, a substantial strain on my budget.

An employed for N.J. State Assembly Joseph Egan recently advised me that N.J.S.A. 56:12-67.b requires a customer to be provided conspicuous written notice of one business day to sign a contract for leasing an automobile.

Most people purchase a car with installments. This is roughly the same as leasing. Similar enough to warrant the state Legislature to pass a law giving a prospective buyer of an automobile one business day to decide whether to sign the purchase contract. Does the New Jersey Legislature believe consumers should have consumer rights?

Richard P. Zuckerman

North Brunswick