Absolute WORST experience ever with Auto Corral.
First, we went to look at a car that we were interested in that was listed for 4295.
We called Auto Corral and spoke with Julie, who was very loud and constantly interrupted when we tried to speak. She advised that the car was not hers to sell, and that it was in fact her husband Steve's, who owned a shop further down town called Precision Auto.
We all hopped in a car to drive down to look at the car we were interested in.
When getting into the car we noticed that the listing price on the paper on the window was actually for $3995! Score! Julie stated " Oh wow! I guess I had it priced wrong on the internet, it's actually $3995".
We took the car for a test drive and the airbag light came on. She assured us that she would have her husband look into it the next day prior to us purchasing the car. We told her we would be back the next day to purchase the car. She said that was fine and to call her husband Steve about the car.
The next day, we attempted to call Steve - but he happened to be at a golf tournament. We were advised to go back to Julie to handle the deal. We went to bank, pulled out the cash for $3995 PLUS what we were expecting to pay in taxes. We also looked the car up on KBB and saw that it retailed for $3400. So, with that - we also figured we could maybe talk them down a little. We met with Julie and we gave her our offer. She got worked up and began to interrupt us and telling us she can't work with the price because it was her husband's car to sell. THEN WHY EVEN DEAL WITH US AT ALL!? Then she persisted on calling her husband, who was at a golf tournament - she begins to roll her eyes while on the phone with her husband stating "Of course these girls looked at the KBB value, which is not accurate and would like to talk the price down!". She then got off the phone and stated that the price was firm at $4295 NOT $3995 and that they would NOT come down on price and that they were also going to add the airbag fix ON TOP of the sale price. We told her that we were going to have to walk out then and that raising a price was not acceptable after confirming the lowered price the previous day. So - that's what we did. We walked away. THANK GOD. We got into a BETTER deal with another dealer in Montrose, POLLARD BROTHERS, for a NEWER Subaru for $2995 (and it had the work done that was needed in order to buy it).
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