Two months ago ...
We had papers ready to sign on a new car at another dealership, but thankfully have a neighbor in the car painting business who recognized that an entire side of the vehicle had been re-painted, and that the paint was already bubbling. His prediction: it would last a year. We still considered buying because our neighbor would be able to fix the problem. But, before we did, I went online again.
I found the same year vehicle at Good for $1,000 more than the one we were looking at with the other dealer. However, the one at Good was WAY more loaded, so it was actually a much better value! I called and Josh answered the phone.
I was working in the north end, my husband and our trade were in the south end. Josh came and picked me up at the Sounder train station in the car I was interested in. My husband met me at the dealership, and negotiations began. This is where the 4 stars come in instead of 5; I was a little bit disappointed in the amount that we got for our trade. We had been offered more at the other dealership and Good wasn't willing to budge. However, they did make the deal attractive in other areas and we were still happy with the overall makeup, so we went ahead.
We were in a hurry to get to another appointment, so Josh and the finance guys were doing awesome at making things go as quickly as possible. We had our two small children with us, and Josh bought our son pretzels and played with him in the new car while hubby and I worked on signing paperwork. I can't tell you how much his "babysitting" helped us get things done! We were in and out of finance in about 20 minutes - fastest time ever! But we still got good explanation of what we were signing, and didn't feel like we were being taken advantage of at all. In fact, we came out of finance with a payment that was $30 LOWER than what we had agreed to in negotiation! How often does THAT happen?
Overall, we were very pleased with our experience at Good, and especially with Josh. Yeah, he's a salesman, but he was also straightforward and seemingly honest with us. Sure, he wanted us to buy the car and was doing all he could to make that happen, but I wasn't put off by him, either. I would buy another car from him for sure.
All that said... now it's time to test the service department. Looks like we have a leak! I know it's new and not something Good hid from us since we've had rain already, so don't misinterpret this problem as something they hid from us, but it will be interesting to see how they do. My phone call to service was awesome - Dave was funny and empathetic, and we'll have the car in soon. Yay for extended warranties! :) Hopefully it will be something easy and we'll get great service - if we do, maybe I'll come back and give them that 5th star! read more