STOP! DON'T SHOP!! BUYER BEWARE! Hgregg.com is a nightmare! Add $1700.00 on to any price you see! Do not purchase online cars with Hgreg.com! Refer to TrustPilot.com for numerous Hgreg.com 1 star reviews! Outrageously high hidden dealer fees, cars sold with major hidden defects, untrained salespeople, long phone waits, no call backs or follow up and horrible service - and that's just before they take your money. Read more below to see actual dealer comments and see pictures of actual HGreg.com dealership contracts with bloated fees and defective cars! I have purchased over a dozen cars: 9 in-state and 3 out-of-state and this is by far the worst purchasing experience I have ever had in my life. Hgreg.com is a Canadian car retailer, HGregoire, that needs to stay in Canada.
PROBLEM 1: Hgreg.com's Horrible customer service:
I found a Nissan Rogue on Hgreg.com at what I thought was a good price ($21,988). I was purchasing online from St. Louis, MO. I wanted to make sure there was no smoke smell in the car first - no one could or would check. Long waits on phone lines, no returned texts or emails, untrained staff with misinformation every step of the way at every level of this organization.
PROBLEM 2: Hgreg.com overcharges on every car w/ huge hidden fees:
I called back a few mins later and actually get an answer this time from an out-of-state sales specialist, Franco. I said I would purchase the car at the advertised price and Franco informs me that there is also an additional $1400.00 in Hgreg.com dealer prep fees "Pre-delivery $999.00 & Electronic filing fee $399.00" - these bogus fees from any dealership are usually no more than $200. Franco said that, "Every Hgreg car we sell must have that $1399.00 additional fees no matter what". (See picture of my Hgreg.com purchase agreement below
So, whatever price you see advertised on Hgreg.com, automatically add an additional $1400 to get the true price of the car! Add on an additional $1700 on to every Hgreg.com car purchase if you like a second key fab (standard with all other dealers) because Hgreg.com keeps the second key fab for themselves and they put that in writing in your contract (see image of Hgreg.com contract below). Key fabs go for over $300 from any dealer.
PROBLEM 3: Hgreg.com does nothing to help you during or after the sale:
So after I price agree on Hgreg.com's over-charges, I get no other sales help. I ordered an inspection with recommended "My Used Car Buddy" and contacted recommended Les' transport. The bottom line is that this is NOT CarMax. If you purchase a car from Hgreg.com, good luck -you are on your own.
PROBLEM 4: The Car Transporter doesn't pick up the car:
Les's shipping said they would pick up the car in 24 hours but after they took my money quoting me $875 and then charging me $900, Les never picks up the car for over a week! 19 days after the purchase of this car - it finally arrives in St. Louis. It is filthy dirty - just like My Buddy inspection photos showed - so for $1400 of dealer prep fees they could not even run the car through their automatic car wash before shipping it (see attached photo below).
PROBLEM 5: Defective Car with Expensive Hidden Defects with Hgreg.com cars:
The inspector "My Car Buddy" recommended by Hgreg.com must have accidently missed some key defects and like a loose front bumper and spliced and taped up wiring harness. But you only have 48 hours to discover these defects upon receipt of your Hgreg.com car or the car is yours to keep. The wiring harness had been spiced up and retaped together instead of replaced with all new wiring harness - voids all warrantees. (See pictures of defects below). The Nisson certified mechanic said the Hgreg.com car looked like it went through a chop shop for accident repair. Cost to repair front bumper & wiring harness to reactivate warrantee will be over $7000.00! As Franco said to me multiple times "at Hgreg we buy as is and we sell as is" and they are not kidding they buy junk without inspection or certification and they sell junk to you without guarantee. BUYER BEWARE!
Hgreg.com's complete disregard for their customer is not an issue of one or two staff people. This is a systemic institutional problem that starts with the parent company, Hgregoire, in Canada and shows its corporate arrogance and disrespect for the customer at every level of this organization.
If there is even an owner's response to this review (it won't really be an owner but some kid working from home paid to write polite responses) that says something like, "we care about our customer and regret we did not meet your expectations, please contact us". My response to the Hgreg.com Owner's Response: "Blow that smoke up somebody else's tail pipe". read more