I hope my experience is a rarity but it was still an extremely negative experience nonetheless.
Friday I checked the landers Nissan website for 3 2013 Nissan Altima's that all were under 10k. My wife called to set up a test drive that following Saturday for two Altimas at 5:15pm. We were told the 3rd Altima was at the Collierville location.
That Saturday we arrived at landers Nissan Southaven around 5:10 pm. We told the employee standing outside that we had a test drive appointment at 5:15pm. He didn't recognize the name we gave him, and he looked confused when I stated that we were there for the 2 2013 Altimas. He looked up the cars on his phone, then asked us to follow him inside the dealership. We sat and waited as he went to his computer, looked up the cars on the website, came back to ask us about the cars again, then went back to his computer. After a few minutes he came back, still confused about the cars and asked our price range. We told him around 10k, and he suggested a Camry and a Cadillac. We still weren't clear on if the Altimas were sold or available. He took us to the computer to show us the Camry and that's when he saw the Altimas still on the website. I commented again about the 2013 Altimas still on the website in our price range. Then he grabbed the truck keys to take us around the lot to find the cars. Long story short we ended up not finding the cars as he drove around clicking the alarm button on his keys. As he's driving he's not telling us whether the Altimas are sold or not, he's trying to sell us the Cadillac and the Camry. We were told we wouldn't be able to find a good car for 10k and we need to finance a car around 20k. After the wasted trip, we asked again about the status of the Altimas and could we double check to see if they're still on the lot. He makes some comment about one of the battery's in one of the Altimas is dead and the website isn't accurate. The cars were just put up on the website recently so it wouldn't make sense for them to not be on the lot. Especially since the 3 2013 Altimas were put online at the same time, and the Altima at the Collierville location was sold recently. So how do 2 cars disappear? He parks the truck and we walk back in the dealership. We asked that he double check on the status of the cars while we talk it over, amongst ourselves. My wife went to the bathroom and, shortly after, the employee came back to where I was sitting. I told him we were set on the Altimas and didn't want any other cars. He told me one Altima wasn't on the lot (I guess it disappeared) and the other had a dead battery. Then he questioned me on why I was buying an older car. I told him the Altimas are reliable with good gas mileage. He then commented that they're not reliable at all. Clearly he just wanted me to buy whatever cars he was selling, and he came of extremely disrespectfully. After that comment, I was done and ready to go. He asked me again if I wanted to look at another car, I said nah and he walked off. Wifey came back from the bathroom and I got up and we left.
We ended up spending an hour at this location. We didn't find the cars we wanted, we were disrespected, and our time was wasted when we had an appointment time set up. If the cars were already sold, just let us know. Don't have paying customers wasting gas and their time just to get the run around. You can't talk down to your paying customers. We were ready and willing to get a car but now we have no car and a wasted Saturday experience.I will never go back to this location. read more