A used car salesman has been fined $25,000 for winding back the odometer on cars he sold, a practice the Queensland Office of Fair Trading says is "reasonably common" in the industry.

Alexander Thomas Hallett was convicted and banned from holding a dealer's licence for five years after pleading guilty to 13 charges in the Southport Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

The 31-year-old was the sole director of Hallett Projects, which operated second-hand car dealerships on the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast.

The court heard that between May 2023 and September 2024, Hallett wound back a total of 648,000 kilometres on the odometers of seven vehicles, which misrepresented the condition and value by $64,000.

He was also convicted of dishonestly converting an amount to his own use for pocketing the e

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