The documents DO NOT say to add the restitution figure to the buyback number. You adjust the NADA figure for options and mileage (buyback amount). And use the result (buyback amount) to calculate the restitution figure. And add it (restitution amount) to the adjusted NADA figure (buyback amount). The result is the buyback figure (payment amount). Of course anyone as ignorant and hostile and hostile as you can't handle something a first grader could understand. Too long in the Arizona sun I guess.
Do you comprehend what you are saying? Oh by the way my friends autistic 6 year old kid is telling me what to type so you can follow along and we have taken the liberty to adjust your post so hopefully you will have one of those "
DOH" moments=]
OK, since everyone seems very confused by my post, the website that everyone has suggested is wrong is
https://claims.vwgoa.com.
The court documents as I have already outlined unequivocally state YOU AS THE ELIGIBLE OWNER COMBINE THE BUYBACK AMOUNT
PLUS THE RESTITUTION AMOUNT. Anyone who posts here and claims otherwise is just trolling for trouble. This information is found on pages 1 and 2 of the official DIESEL EMISSIONS SETTLEMENTS booklet that YOU, as an eligible party, would have received in the mail. If you do not have this booklet then you should not even be commenting in here because you do not own an eligible vehicle.
This is not up for debate. My issue is the VW website as mentioned above not putting forth accurate numbers on the vehicles buyback value pursuant to the stipulations in this matter.
On a side note I spoke to an attorney named Wendy Behan today. She is listed as one of the law firms you can make inquiries to. This woman was a total C*NT. Essentially she told me there is a separate buyback amount for anyone who purchased one of the affected vehicles AFTER September 18, 2015. She tried to convince me that the website as listed above was correct and that any tdi purchased after that date was already devalued by NADA. For example, if before September 18, 2015 my car was valued at $16,000, then after the scandal broke it was automatically devalued to $8,000 by NADA.
Of course I told her this is nonsense as these cars have not been devalued by the NADA nor KBB. Just go to the websites and you will see they are still valued at the same prices before the scandal was announced. I paid full KBB value for my car in March of this year, but according to this woman it would have been devalued at the time of purchase.
What this lawyer then stated was that anyone who purchased an affected vehicle after September 18, 2015 did so with the strict intentions to hoard said vehicles to profiteer off the scandal. She told me it was going to be her job to make sure neither me nor anyone else profits twice from this scandal. She told me VW is using buyback tables, to be kept secrete from the public, and these tables devalue any vehicles purchased after September 18, 2015 from the "frozen" buyback amounts listed on the court website, so that those owners cannot profit twice. So if I profited from the devaluation when I bought the vehicle, I shall not profit again from the buyback.
Of course no where in any court records or agreements or stipulations does this language exist. Of course I brought this to her attention. She claims that proof is offered on page 25 of the booklet, which states in paragraph 4:
"These tables assume that you still owned your car when the emissions accusations became public on September 18, 2015 and that you still own it. If you no longer have your car or if you purchased it after September 18, 2015, then you will be offered a lesser amount, assuming you qualify for the settlement" She states this is the "authority" VW is using to secretly devalue my vehicle buyback amount (including milage and options and region) from $20,657 to $14,751.
So lets say that it is all true, for example, my September 18, 2015 NADA value of my car is $20,657 (adjusted for mileage and options and region per attachment 1A). If I owned the vehicle prior to September 18, 2015, I automatically get that money
PLUS restitution. The restitution payment is 20%
PLUS $2,986.73.
20% of $20,657 = $4,131.40 (for all you math challenged)
PLUS $2,986.73
PLUS $20,657 = $27,775.13. This would be the total amount received as payment if I owned the vehicle prior to September 18, 2015 and opted to let VW buy it back today.
Now lets go look on page 26 of the booklet as this is where my year and model are listed...It says the range of payments (this would be the amount to include both the buyback amount and the restitution amount if VW and the lawyer have their way) are between $19,907 and $22,097.
Clearly if these range of payments include (as the lawyer and VW insist) both the buyback amount and the restitution, something is significantly wrong, $27,775.13
vs. $19,907-$22,097.
Its a good thing I recorded that phone call! Now all the sudden VW does not know how to interpret its own stipulations and will be claiming semantics and interpretation to work against us and cheat us out of the agreed settlement. Buy the way this also applies if you intend to keep your vehicle. I was offered $2998.00 to keep it and just over $17,000 to let VW buy it back
Folks I think we are in for a major screw job here...
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!