Legal Question in Consumer Law in Texas

The first place you need to look is any agreement you made to purchase the car. It probably says you will surrender a "restocking fee" if they hold the car for you but you end up not buying it. It's really more of a holding fee because they agreed not to sell the car to anybody but you so they were deprived of other opportunities to sell the car. They are "restocking" the car back into their inventory to sell. As long as the fee is a reasonable amount it is probably a legitimate fee. However, if there is no fee described in the agreement you signed then whether the fee is legitimate is a more complicated question.