Oh, boy...where to start.
First, let me say that the "bait and switch" is alive and well. After receiving a flyer in the mail from this Graff dealership we played the 'slot-type' lift-the-tab game and read all the fine print. Apparently, we had won $2500.00. There were even pictures of 'real people' on their flyer which listed the prize they had won. This was the first-time any car dealership sponsored flyer seemed legitimate so we decided to visit the co-sponsoring website. The website, Fatwin, also said I had won "one of the prizes: cash, apple watch etc.". The website did not go into any detail about the $2500.00 and this should have been my first clue something was fishy---the website just stated, "You are a winner". The flyer said to come to the dealership to claim my prize. When we went to the dealership the sales associate avoided speaking about the prize multiple times and instead took down information on a vehicle we currently own, because, we are in the market for a newer vehicle later this year. He also wrote down that our budget was $250-350 per month. I have to say that the associate seemed very genuine and we enjoyed his attempts to show us different vehicles and my husband even test-drove a couple. My husband is very frugal, and he really just humored me by going to the dealership, but he really doesn't mind paying for quality. He really liked a newer truck, which surprised me because he doesn't usually like to pay on a 6-7 year loan-- We told the sales associate we didn't want to spend over $300/month. We wanted to know what the bottom-line would be for the 2017 truck with around 15K miles--we got a handwritten 'estimate' of a 3-year loan for $500-600 per month. ?? My husband got a little defensive a told the associate that we couldn't pay that and asked how much the truck was, the associate said he didn't know. We should have walked out. It got worse from there. At the end the manager and associate were rushing to sell us a vehicle--pretty much any truck my husband would look at, but after being there for 3 hours I couldn't count the number of times I heard, "are you ready to buy the truck?". Really was not a good experience. My husband politely told the associate and manager he wanted to think it over, but when I looked over the associate was writing up a contract on one of the trucks. My husband looked on his phone at another dealership's website and when my husband found a similar truck with same year, less miles, and $2500 less he showed it to the associate and the response was confusing-- the associate just said something like, "that's not possible". We left. The experience was so awkward but I guess we won't be back and it's like the joke says, "A man sees a newsboy calling out, 'Extra, extra, read all about it, two men get swindled', the man says 'hey I'll buy one of those papers', he then says, 'Hey I don't see anything in here about two men being swindled', he then hears the newsboy calling out, 'Extra-extra, read all about it, 3 men get swindled'. Know a swindler when you see one and walk the other direction. What a waste of 3 hours. Oh, and other customers were sitting at tables with flyers they had received as well. I bet they were "winners", too. Know a bait and switch when you see one and don't give this dealership a second thought. read more