When buying a car ALWAYS do your research on the vehicle but more importantly.... the dealer. I should have listened to all the negative reviews about this place because bad reviews are so very telling, someone doesn't always report when they've had a great experience but they do when its a bad one. To begin with they have good pricing on some of their vehicles, which reading through most reviews makes sense because they are selling pieces of shiny junk. I had communicated via email with their sales rep Scott who I did not know at the time but is a new salesman who has only been selling cars for close to two years after retiring. He is frankly a VERY unknowledgeable car salesman & employee of his company's policies & I will tell you why. When going to buy a vehicle you want confidence in who you are working with, someone who knows what they are talking about or selling, it is very unsettling to have questions about a vehicle and to hear "i don't knows" or "let me check on that" in response especially when you have been inquiring about this vehicle for a week before even coming in. It felt like I was dealing with a middle man, who was always having to go check in with someone for the correct answer. Furthermore, I had made it clear to Scott I did NOT want to do any credit applications because I had a preapproval already through my own bank before I ever came onto their lot & what do you guess is the first thing Scott is slamming down my throat as I come in...a credit application. After denying the credit application and taking a test drive AGAIN he brings up the credit application, I was wanting to proceed with the vehicle at the time so I agreed ONLY on the basis that my credit would be ran through ONE bank, MY bank that I was already preapproved through. Scott ensured me that the financial department would only run my app through my bank to get the already started process flowing..... this is why I say the man doesn't even know his companies policies.... not even 20 min later Scott is no where to be found as I'm waiting inside a small crammed office & my phone starts sending me notifications, I'm getting hard inquires left and right that're hitting my credit report. They were running my credit through all of their banks and I was watching my credit score plummet on an already not so great credit score to be honest. I run to go find Scott to be told he is with another customer, 30 min and 4 more hard inquires later, Scott returns. He has no answers for me, just excuses. He was unable to convey the message to his financial department to not run my credit through the ringer because he was tending to another customer... NOT MY FAULT but now I'm facing the repercussions of it? In addition, he had told me throughout the process that my bank I was preapproved through is in their "cuddle network" WRONG again, their financial manager later told me my bank has been out of their network since before Scott even started with them so that information was 100% false. In addition, there was no communication, I was left in a room to figure it on my own which is the feeling I had since I walked through the door, it was only when I started to get upset about what they were doing to my credit did I get some attention which was negative at that not apologetic or concerned, instead of recognizing what they did wrong they tried to over look it, telling me to just call my bank to get the preapproval over the phone since their way didn't work, Scott even word for word told me "when people run your credit they'll see what your hard inquiries are and know it was just to buy a car, it wont effect you." Scott do you even know what credit is, how it works, or how it effects you?
I have contacted the business several times to see if their is anything we can do to resolve the issue before contacting attorneys or the BBB but every time been asked to leave a name & number with no call back. Most dissatisfied experience with a car dealership I have ever had. We all expect car salesman to be sneaky &/or pushy but these guys take that to a whole new level. Run as far as you can from this dealership.....in the opposite direction. read more