OMVIC, Ontario’s vehicle sales regulator, has ordered the IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION of Personal Touch Auto Limited, operated by Gino Burzese, located at 747 Great Northern Road, Sault Ste Marie. As a result, Burzese and Personal Touch Auto Limited may not legally sell, lease, buy or consign vehicles.
According to OMVIC, Immediate Suspensions are only issued when the regulator believes a dealer’s conduct may place the car-buying public at risk. Laura Halbert, OMVIC’s Director of Compliance and Deputy Registrar, stated the immediate suspension of Personal Touch Auto was triggered following an OMVIC inspection and serious consumer complaints that alleged the dealer:
- did not deliver a vehicle for which payment was received
- did not pay, or only made partial payments to, consumers whose vehicles were sold by the dealer on a consignment basis
- did not remove liens from vehicles sold or traded in, leaving consumers potentially responsible for the debts
- did not deposit all funds obtained on a consignment basis into a trust account
- did not make required written disclosure about the accident history of some vehicles sold
- did not submit contracts and/or payments for extended warranties leaving customers without warranty protection
- employed an unregistered salesperson (Chris Pinder)
In conjunction with the suspension order OMVIC also issued Proposals to Revoke the registrations of Personal Touch Auto Limited and Gino Burzese.
Consumers are warned not to buy or lease vehicles from, or sell or consign vehicles to, Personal Touch Auto Limited or Gino Burzese while the dealer’s registration is suspended; consumers who trade with an unregistered business or individual are not protected by the Motor Vehicle Dealers Compensation Fund.
Note: Within 15 days of the issuance of an immediate suspension order a hearing will be held before the Licence Appeal Tribunal. The Tribunal will determine if the order should be extended until a final determination is made regarding the associated Proposal(s) to Revoke Registration.
OMVIC encourages consumers who may have purchased from Personal Touch to ensure their vehicles do not have unexpected liens and that liens on vehicles traded in have been removed. This information can be found by consulting a Used Vehicle Information Package (UVIP), available from ServiceOntario or on a CarProof Vehicle History Report.
Consumers with questions or concerns should contact OMVIC’s Complaints and Inquiries Team at 416-226-4500×3942.
About OMVIC Registration
Ontario’s Motor Vehicle Dealers Act (MVDA) requires all dealers and salespeople be registered with OMVIC. Unregistered selling (curbsiding) is a serious offence: individuals convicted of curbsiding can be fined $50,000 and be jailed for up to two years less a day.
Suspended? This weasel should be arrested and thrown in jail.
Fraud, theft, you name it.
Come on cops, get on the ball!
not really helping the used car salesman stigma..is he?
Good for the ####### he did it to me too he was supposed to pay off my truck GM and he didn’t I found out three months later by getting a letter saying that I was behind on payments it’s about its about time someone did something I complained and nothing was done
WOW…what way to treat customers and expect to continue a business. Let’s hope with the current negative retail climate in this city that this is not the tip of he iceberg.
We bought a vehicle from this crook he sold us a vehicle and stated it was clean only to find out later it was in an accident and a rental car. He provided incorrect documentation to us but ensured we paid a premium price.we were lucky to get out of it with the help Greg Robinson who went to bat for us and made sure brusleazy bought the vehicle back at book price.
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