The ruling on car dealers intercepting vehicles before they enter the market
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The questioner:
The questioner asks: What is the ruling on what car dealers do by sitting?
The Shaykh:
With you.
The questioner:
What car dealers do by sitting before the dealerships.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
Intercepting the dealerships and intercepting the cars to buy them before they enter the market.
The Shaykh:
Is this permissible? This is intercepting travelers and intercepting the nomads. The car owner may be coming from far away, and he does not know, or he is from the town. This is a type of intercepting travelers. Do you enter the dealership, and a person can say to him, "Enter and buy it from the dealership"? If you reach the dealership and the auction, buy it. But that you deceive the owner and buy it before he enters the dealership and before he knows the price, this is not permissible. This is from one aspect. The second aspect is that this causes harm to the people of the dealerships, because you withhold the cars from them. Who is sitting with him? Who is opening the dealerships? If people want to come to intercept the cars, you do not let them reach them. This is causing harm to the owners of the dealerships.
The questioner asks: What is the ruling on what car dealers do by sitting?
The Shaykh:
With you.
The questioner:
What car dealers do by sitting before the dealerships.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
Intercepting the dealerships and intercepting the cars to buy them before they enter the market.
The Shaykh:
Is this permissible? This is intercepting travelers and intercepting the nomads. The car owner may be coming from far away, and he does not know, or he is from the town. This is a type of intercepting travelers. Do you enter the dealership, and a person can say to him, "Enter and buy it from the dealership"? If you reach the dealership and the auction, buy it. But that you deceive the owner and buy it before he enters the dealership and before he knows the price, this is not permissible. This is from one aspect. The second aspect is that this causes harm to the people of the dealerships, because you withhold the cars from them. Who is sitting with him? Who is opening the dealerships? If people want to come to intercept the cars, you do not let them reach them. This is causing harm to the owners of the dealerships.
Source
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