High pressure sales tactics, insulting attitudes, over-"shopped" me for financing, had no respect for my personal information and sold the car I wanted to buy.
Edit: I've been told by the GM that the sales staff has been completely changed out at this dealership. I have since had one other interaction with this dealer, but it was their service department-- I brought my car in to have a look at a check engine light, I brought it in on a Monday, by Thursday I called and no one had looked at my car yet. I told them to give me the keys and I took it to the Fiat in Montgomeryville-- who were SPECTACULAR. Had my work done in a day.
I set an appointment to meet with their sales manager, who briefly spoke to me before handing me off to one of the other salesmen, whose name I won't use, but he's the first desk on the left from the front door! We took the 2013 Abarth I wanted for a test drive, everything was in order, the car ran great, looked great and was ready to go.
After the test drive, the salesman at the first desk on the left hand-wrote on a piece of paper: I will buy this car, if the price is to my liking. x___________.
He actually wanted me to sign a handwritten contract on a piece of scrap paper. I denied, which seemed to be a personal insult to him, but we moved along.
We began to talk about pricing, trade-in and financing. He offered me an insulting $100 for a 2004 Mazda 3 with 100k miles for the trade in. I told him how bad that offer was, but for some reason he thought I actually wanted to that accept it.
Then I watched the salesman at the first desk on the left throw out my application, in trash. My application with my name, birthday, social security number, address, work information, home phone number, cell phone number and work number. I had to actually tell him that I wanted my information shredded. I work at an insurance agency, and we shred anything with as little as a customer name on it.
So when the first round of financing came (which took over an hour to get back, while I sat at his desk waiting) it had me accepting the $100 for the trade in. I told him absolutely not and to fix the paperwork. We waited probably another half an hour before that was fixed as well. What I didn't realize was in this time, they were trying to find financing for me EVERYWHERE. This was over a month ago and I am STILL receiving letters in the mail from banks, and this "overshopping" of me made it very difficult for me to find financing a week later at a MUCH better dealer (Chapman Ford in Horsham! I highly recommend, but my new Fiat was a random trade in.)
So after a very long time with the salesman at the first desk on the left, I decided I would buy the car, but I couldn't get it insured that night, and I didn't want to buy the car and leave it uninsured at the dealer for the night, they didn't want that either. I left, planning on returning the next morning and buying the car and insuring it and leaving. When I got home, I noticed they had a picture of another guy standing in front of my car and a post congratulating him on his purchase! I texted the salesman at the first desk on the left the next morning asking if that was the car I was coming in to buy, and he confirmed.
Now, I KNOW THIS PART WAS ENTIRELY MY FAULT. But it just left a further sour taste in my mouth. read more