My wife was in here a couple of days ago looking to purchase a car. She asked to look at three or four vehicles before she settled upon a 2018 Honda CRV (listed around $25k). However, her sales person was quite short with her about having to pull out vehicles. She saw the first two and didn't quite like them, and politely asked if she could see another. His response was quite short, "Well, I'll have to put these away first!" If you're a business trying to make sales, why is that an issue? While talking about the price of the car, he didn't want to engage with her. When he gave her the numbers, after all was said and done, the price had jumped from 25k to 30k. I get tax, title, and license, but that's not $5000. He has added in $800 security plan and a $2000 paint coating (which should have been talked about ahead of time), neither of which she wanted. She was then told they could takeoff the paint coating, but the security plan had to stay. It was already installed on all the vehicles. My wife still wanted to talk about the price, because that's a lot of money for a vehicle it's already three years old. Without the $2000 paint deal, it brought the price of the car down to around $28,800. My wife was hoping to do something closer to $27,000. That didn't mean that we weren't willing to pay more than that; we were just hoping they could work with a little bit on the price of the car. If you can't do that, then explain it in a manner that sounds like you are not angry or doing us a favor. At that point, given the poor treatment and unwillingness to really talk about it, her feeling was to go elsewhere. As she was leaving, somebody must've said something to our sales person, because she could hear him say, " You can go after them if you want, but I'm not going to." Everything about this salesperson said that he didn't want to deal with her. We are pretty loyal customers. If you are polite and honest with us, we can understand. However, the whole deal with not really explaining the paint coating and the security plan coupled with this person's treatment of my wife are enough for us not to return or recommend this place to friends in the area. You could've received several vehicles purchases from of us over the years. We eventually did receive a text from our sales person, and he said that somebody in management would reach out to us. However we never heard anything. The next day our sales person did reach out to us and ask what could be done to bring our business back. Today, he emailed her and said he tried to work with her on the price, but that they can't give everyone a free car. We weren't looking for a free car, and you need to explain things more effectively.
We went to another dealership in the area. They were polite, willing to answer our questions, show several vehicles, and talk about us with the price. They were upfront and said there really isn't much they could be done on the price right now (and explained why), but they were polite about it and we felt like valued customers. We bought our car from them. And, will buy several more over time. read more