Performance Nissan Fo South Everett Scammed us into a Vicious Car lease Everett Washington
Two years ago this February my wife (at that point fiance) leased a car from this Dealership-Nissan of South Everett. Right off the bat this place seemed like we may have some issues. The staff was very pushy, and reluctant to give us answers to basic questions on the lease. All they could tell us is that they were going to put us on lease for people with good credit. Turns out that they put us on a 5 Year lease on this car.
After we bought this vehicle the next day infact we called the dealership to see if we may able to bring the car back, since in California there is a law where you can take the car back within a certain time frame. The dealership was completely different, and the nice down to earth guy Damian who had sold us the car was a completely different person and was very rude towards my wife and I.
They basically told us since we had driven the car off the lot they would not take car back. We then took the lease info to both sets of our parents and they all decided that we had been scammed and ripped off big time. The risidual on this car would be very low on the car at the end of the lease, and we were charged way to much for the car. At the time we thought it was just a mistake and would have to live with it.
Now with increasing fuel costs we have tried several times to trade in the car for another more practical fuel efficient one. All the dealerships we have been too have asked us the same thing. "Who ripped you off like this"? We always say it was Performance Nissan of South Everett.
Just last weekend we took the car to try and trade it in again and the General Manager of the car dealership said "who would do such a thing"? "How do these people sleep at night, taking advantage of people like this"? then he proceeded to say "I have been doing this for almost 30 years, and this is one of the worst deals I have ever seen".
We owe so much on the car because the dealership uped the price of the car and put us on a 5 year lease. We are basically locked into this lease. If we break the lease we have to pay for the lease purchase price, and if we try to trade in the car, we have to come up with about $14,000 dollars to absorb the negative equity that the banks will not finance. We owe two-three times what this car is worth.
We feel like we were grossly taken advantage of. We would like to get rid of the car but can't find the ways to. We would love to persue legal action as well but need to study up and see where we should start. We want people to know that they should not do business with this outfit as they are nothing but crooks with no mercy. Do not do business with these people, we were stung big time and don't want the same to happen to others.
Josh
Sammamish, Washington
U.S.A.
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Robert
Irvine,California,
U.S.A.
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#2Consumer Comment
Mon, June 09, 2008
First a correction to your thinking you can take the car back. You said there is a law in CA, but I think you meant WA. However, in either case there is no "cooling-off" period. You may be thinking about federal and state laws that state this a 3-day period. But they only relate to things such as TimeShares and Door-To-Door sales and not Automotive dealers. So unless you happen to purchase the car from a Door-To-Door salesman this does not apply. Once you signed the paperwork(you didn't even have to drive it off the lot) it is YOUR car and they are under no obligation to take it back.
"..The staff was very pushy, and reluctant to give us answers to basic questions on the lease. All they could tell us is that they were going to put us on lease for people with good credit. Turns out that they put us on a 5 Year lease on this car..."
Why did they have to give you these answers. If you had read the lease before it was signed it would have been listed in the lease.
"..We then took the lease info to both sets of our parents and they all decided that we had been scammed and ripped off big time. The risidual on this car would be very low on the car at the end of the lease, and we were charged way to much for the car. At the time we thought it was just a mistake and would have to live with it..."
These are all things you should have gone through BEFORE you signed the lease.
"...and if we try to trade in the car, we have to come up with about $14,000 dollars to absorb the negative equity that the banks will not finance..."
Without knowing the exact car you got 14K Negative Equity may or may not be bad on a 2 year old car.
And just some comments on salespeople. The dealers you are taking the car to now are bad mouthing the deal you got for ONE reason. They don't want you to go back to the other dealer. So they can sometimes be just as unethical telling you how bad you were "screwed" so that they have the same chance to do the same thing. You may actually find going back to this original dealer and giving them a chance to redeem themselves telling them how bad you felt you got treated the first time. But this time be sure to read and understand everything BEFORE you sign it.