Ronda
Bryson City,#2Author of original report
Mon, November 12, 2007
Cory, in my experience with car buying, it is unethical to change the price of a vehicle between 2 different employees of the same business. The call we made to the dealership was to establish the price of the vehicle, essentally to be sure the price listed for the vehicle online was truly the price being asked by the dealership. Once Employee #1 verified, yes this is the asking price, one would expect that price to be the same once we actually got to the dealership 1 hour later. Not suddenly go up $1000.00! It also smells of a rat that when a potential customer requests that the price quoted be honored by Employee #1 and that you respectfully request that someone from the dealership call that employee and verify the price quoted and is refused that definatly something is up. And yes we walked out of that dealership pronto and never bought the vehicle. We took the cash we had in hand and bought a vehicle elsewhere. Little did they know that we were ready to slap $3000.00 in their hand that night, but they chose to play games with us so they lost out.
Cory
San Antonio,#3Consumer Comment
Sun, November 11, 2007
The extra $1000 was what they were gonna "give" you for your trade-in. They'd "give" you a $1000 for your trade-in, in other words, getting it for free. Or, the extra $1000 was the price they were gonna start at and let you "bargin" them down because of "the several spots of body damage..". You stated that every time the price of the jimmy went down $20 or $30, so did the price of your trade-in. See my point. They were probably trying to sell you the jimmy for $6 to $8,000, depending on the year, which they picked up for free or next to free as a trade-in on another vehicle. I don't know what they sell for and you don't say what they WERE selling it for but you were trading in an 18 year old vehicle, that's where the extra $1000 came from. They tried to jack the price of the jimmy up by a $1000, they'll show a "trade-in value of $1000 for the blazer, they get for free and sell the blazer to the next sucker for $2,999 or $3,999 as the "manager's special". Typical car deal. I hope you were smart enough to walk.
Jim
Orlando,#4Consumer Suggestion
Sun, November 11, 2007
What I read was you looked the car over, found some minor blemishes in appearance which your husband could easily repair...and then...you walk in and work out the contract details. What happened to the TEST DRIVE? Incredible.