They're eager to sell to you, not so much support you afterwords…read more...
The situation: I live in Memphis and found a car I liked online at GCA in Jackson. Found a ride to check it out, liked it, and bought it. During the paper work, I was told that they would take care of the licence plate and send it to me since I live pretty far from the dealership. In the meantime, I was given a drive off tag that is only valid for 30 days. That was September 26th, 2019. Today is October 28th, 2019, my temp tags are 2 days expired and still no plate in the mail!
Let me rewind a bit and tell you why they deserve this single lonesome star from me. Last Monday when I realized my plates still weren't in yet, I gave them a call to find out what was going on. The lady who answered (secretary or something, directing calls) sent me to some womans voicemail. I left a very detailed message explaining my situation, and to have them call me back. Tuesday goes by, no call from them. I call back on Wednesday, same secretary lady answers and sends me to a dudes voice mail this time. I leave yet another message and anticipate a call back... nothing. Thursday I call and I'm starting to get frustrated at the lack of communication they have with me. So when secretary lady answers this time, she sends me to another voicemail. I call back immediately and explain no one is answering, and I need a solution asap. To my dismay, she asks me if I can drive to Jackson to come pick up another drive-off tag. Of course I say no and add that they have had a month to get me my licence plate. I will not drive an hour and a half out of my way, I will not spend money on gas, and I certainly will not take time off work to come pick this up. This is not supposed to be MY emergency, its theirs for not following through with this. She goes on to say they don't have any control over the court. I agree and reiterate that they have had a whole month to get this to me, and to stop passing the buck. "Well we've had a lot of people have this issue," she goes on. I ask, "ok whats the solution if this is so common?" Secretary lady takes my sense of urgency as me being "rude," and pawns me off to the guy who sold me my car because she cant handle a disgruntled customer. (find a new job then)
The sales guy finally gave me a decent answer and explained that they had dropped it in the mail earlier that day, and it would be overnighted to me. OK great! that's all I needed to hear at that point....
Friday: NO PLATE
Saturday: NO PLATE, TEMP TAGS EXPIRED
Sunday: NO PLATE
Monday: NO PLATE, I called the dealership again!
Secretary lady answers, I immediately ask for HER manager. I get sent to another voicemail. Call back. Ask for her manager again! Finally got on the phone with someone. I make my case, told him what I was going through, and he said this was the first he has heard of this. Says hes going to get to the bottom of it and call me back. In the meantime, the guy who sold me my car calls me and says that the plates WERE NOT SENT Thursday because the mail had already gone out that day or some BS. OK cool, the sales guy lied to me! Manager calls me back afterword and asks me if I can drive to Jackson!! (DUDE! My tags are EXPIRED!! I can't drive!!) I tell him no, I'm not driving on expired tags, someone needs to drop this off. He continues with, "well I don't think you're going to have any issues driving like that." I argue with him that I refuse to drive illegally because GCA fucked up. After a short back and forth, I finally convince him that someone needs to drop off another drive-off tag at my house, TODAY. I suggest this, only because before I bought the car, they offered to come pick me up in Memphis to go look it. (They're so eager to sell, not so much to make a mistake right though.)
So at the moment, I'm still without a valid tag, and have no clue if anyone will actually come through with a new tag today. We shall see...
Conclusion: Once you're out the door, they don't care about you anymore. They expect their customers to jump when THEY screw up. They will not follow up with you nor call you back unless you're trying to buy a car. They lie to you to get off the phone. They cant handle a customer demanding what they deserve/need.
I urge everybody to buy elsewhere. Customer service is a joke here.