I had the great misfortune of doing business with this company through a recommendation of the tow truck driver I was with, who also gladly gave them a call for me. (Yeah, I don't know what I was smoking either) So the car gets there and it was dirty as hell. Just as you can't expect honesty from cheap people, you can't expect clean cars from a dirty company. Anyway, I sit in the car with the guy who brought it, we go over the paperwork the gas tank was practically empty, light was on. (Manager gave me some BS reason about it on the phone but obviously it's so they never have to waste money on filling it up themselves.) So before we even do the walk around the delivery guy tells me "Theres no need to do a walk around, it's a new model, the car is mint" Yeah, that's not happening. So here I am with the guy doing a walk around on possibly one of the dirtiest cars I had seen all month. I had to be so up close to notice anything but lo and behold there was not one, not two, but three scratches. On the hood, on the right mirror and on the right door. Remember, the car was extremely dirty so I had to be up close, this is important later on.
So I bring the car back and two days later I get a call about a scratch (Who didn't see that coming from a company that gave me a dirty car, almost no gas, and scratches that the delivery guy said there was none of) The manager tells me about a "noticeable" scratch all the way on the bottom right corner lip of the car. Of course it soon turns into talking about money, he actually starts throwing prices at me to fix this scratch. I ask for pictures, he sends them. The pictures he sends me are of the car just washed (Why not wash it before sending it to someone? Clearly professionalism is not part of this company's vocabulary) And I kid you not, this scratch was so unnoticeable from the wide view angle picture he sent me that the only way I saw it was from the close-up view of another picture.. And that's with the car sparkling clean! Not only that, remember those other scratches I mentioned? They were also on the same side. Obviously, someone scratched the right side of the car.
I point everything out in text message. Just to make sure I had the phone number shown so I could send a report to my insurance company including voicemail if need be. So after pointing out how that scratch was there before a couple of days go by with no response. Then I get a voicemail saying he's going to claim against insurance by Wednesday (four days) if I don't pay (I was already prepared if they did) and that it's already been proven it was there after I got it. (his word vs the massive information I sent pointing out that it was obviously there before.) So I ask him to send me previous walk a rounds, he says fine, a day goes by I ask again he said it was a busy day so tomorrow he'll do it (This guy gives me four days to happily pay or he'll claim, yet procrastinates on the issue for two days!) Day three comes, it's 8pm still nothing, I message him telling him if he'll claim tomorrow I'll send a report to my insurance company since he's the one taking his time.
I get a text a while later telling me not to worry about it, he had another manager look at it and the problem has been resolved and I won't be charged...
Wow. You can't make this stuff up. I had the warning signs go off in my head before I took the car but being impatient, I took it. I have learned a very valuable lesson from this experience, I can only hope the next person who gets the car doesn't get burned. read more