I just bought a pre-owned certificate car this this dealership. I give 1 star rate for this review because I got the car I wanted, the new appearance of Kelly Ford Beverly at new location and the rest for the all liars.
If you are first time car buyer, be aware with liar here. I strongly recommend you to take as much time as you can at this dealership to check on your car as well as read carefully every single word in the sale contract, other contracts, and everything that they promised you to fix, clean, change,etc, you have to place them in the contract and you should just put down a deposit until they do what they promise you to do. Dont ever finance with dealership. Doesnt matter how much your credit score is, credit union bank always give you one of the lowest interest rate on market, go to them first before you go to dealership.
Now, let talk about the other 3 stars that they fail me. If you want to buy a car here, make sure you read all reviews that they are not rated 5 stars.I searched online and found a pre-owned certificate Ford Focus 2017 at Kelly Ford Beverly. It's an hour drive from my house to get there but I didnt mind because I interested in that car. Right when I got there, the nightmare sale experience began. The entry time there I worked with Michael (my sale person), sale manager (I forgot his name) and Ray (Financial manager). Michael gave me very short time for test drive, didnt show or tell me much about feature of the car. He told me to have the price as it's showed on Kelly Ford Beverly website, I have to finance with them. I asked him to show me the proof saying that on their website. He kept saying right there , right there but never showed to me. He said if I dont finance with them, the price will go up almost $4000 more. Okay, that was my stupid that I didnt walk away when he said that. He promised me those scratches I saw on the car would me easy to take off, they fix them when I pick up my car . But they didnt do anything when I came to pick up; he changed his tongue, he said because I bought a used car, so I shouldnt expect it as a brand new car. He didnt give me 5 digit code for keypad on my door, I called him and he kept promising me he will look for it. For almost 2 weeks, I had to be the one kept contacting him asking for 5 digit code, he never contacted me first. The last time I called him, he wanted me to take my car go back their dealership (1 hour away from my house), so then they will look into it. I ended up looked up how to find factory 5 digit code and fix that problem myself. Before I came to pick up my car, I called to inform them and asked if the car is ready, he said it's ready but it's not. It doesnt have vehicle inspection report sticker on my car ready for me while I already paid to have it. He said because their printer machine didnt work that day. I had to spend time to go to other place near my house to do that instead.
About finance, they told me they collected my information to run credit check with Ford Bank only but as you know, they lied, they ran credit report with other banks too. Ray - financial manager- told me my credit score is just okay, normal, so I couldnt get good rate while my credit score at that time was 751. He said Ford Bank gave me the rate 7.9%, so he went beyond and above to contact other banks (Key bank and Huntington bank) to have better rate 6.39% and mentioned again if I dont finance with them, I wont get the price showed on their website.He told me I just need to finance with Key bank 4 months, then I can refinance with different bank I wanted. He automatic put the whole amount of the purchase to finance. Because the intereste rate from Key bank he gave me was too high, so I told him I want to pay down at least half of it, he said no because minimum for finance is $10,000. Later on when I got home, I looked into Key bank website, I saw the minimum os Lucky that I didnt have anymore trust for them this time. I didnt wait until 4 months, I refinance my car as soon as I have paperwork from Key bank
Again, make sure you have to check every single word in the contract before you sign in. If you chose to finance with them, dont sign sale contract until they inform you how much the interest rate is going to be. Otherwise, after you sign in, they can give you whatever number they want to make up money. You make decision if you want to buy car from them or not but my whole experiences with them was horrible. Even paperwork from Key bank sent to my house 10 days after purchase look bad,too. It's only have 2 pages, telling you have much you have to pay per month, account numbers. There is no term and condition for this car finance sent to me.
I hadnt felt happy at all after for my purchase until I could refinance with credit union bank only 2.25% 2 weeks after my purchase. You dont have to wait 4 months or 6 months to be able to refinance as they said. No penalty for refinance. Read your sale contract carefully. read more