We began our search for a trailer about Jan. 18th. Our salesman was Drew Presley at the Canton location. We told Drew we were going to look at the Tyler location as well, so he gave his former roommate's name, Pierce, for us to see in Tyler, but Drew said not to tell Pierce we talked to him in order to get a more honest deal from the Tyler location. That's when the dishonesty began. When we arrived in Tyler, Pierce knew who we were, what we had shopped for, and it was obvious he and our salesman had spoken by phone. Despite our misgivings, we bought the trailer from Drew Presley on Jan. 21st, 2021, with some modifications to be done to the shower, TV, the front and rear hitches. Drew asked if we could come in and pay for the trailer by Friday, Jan. 29th. My husband said he would only feel safe paying for the trailer when we picked it up, after the agreed upon work was done. Drew assured us the work would be done by the time we came to pick the trailer up on Friday afternoon at 1:00 PM. When we arrived, we were whisked into the sales office so we could write the check, and were told that the trailer was ready to go. We were handed off to the service dept. for the walk-through. Thomas Ellis, service, said the hitches were not installed, but they could do the work while we waited. We then learned that the hitch we had already purchased wouldn't fit on our trailer and we would need to buy a different hitch. Then we learned that we would need to take the trailer to a different company after we left Explore USA to have the receiver hitch installed on the back as well, because that work was not done by Explore USA. The other company informed us the hitch we bought at Explore USA wouldn't work either, and the work would need to be custom. The bottom line is that my husband and I were hoodwinked into paying for a trailer we were told was ready to go, and it was not. Furthermore, we had to take the trailer somewhere ourselves to have the remainder of the work done, and leave it until next week . The trailer is paid for, and we still don't have it.
The only person that was honest and told the truth at Explore USA in Canton was Zane, the service man that did our walk-through. We should not have found out AFTER we were assured the trailer was ready, and we paid for the trailer that the work was not done yet or that the hitches wouldn't fit. Because this all took place Friday afternoon, we had to leave the trailer for the custom work to be done, and we still don't have the trailer. read more