12Mar2013
We recently purchased a Ford Expedition from Mike's Auto Sales in Castroville, with the excellent help of Victor Landa, a sales manager there, and felt VERY satisfied with both the service and the product.
The group there works very much as a team, all helpful and well organized (Amir was particularly adept with the paperwork and payment arrangements). Victor was the complete gentleman regarding our terms and cost limitations, worked with our preferences and took pains to ensure the details of the agreement were fair and complete (things like a needed change of tires, mechanic's check of an "on" engine light and tire pressure light). We walked away from the deal feeling as if Mr. Landa had become more than Mike's sales rep, but also our advocate for the best deal we could work out with the owner, Mike.
What is more, we had an odd "check engine light" issue that reoccurred days afterward (as in, past the contract date), and both Mike and Victor were willing to work with us to ensure that the problem was solved. Mike's Auto Sales is the kind of organization you hope for in an auto sales agency but never find. Socially responsible, trustworthy, customer-oriented, and not merely in it for the fast buck -- only the leave the customer to fend for themselves. They think in terms of the long-term relationship with their customers -- all you could hope for in an auto sales company. Ranks up there with the rest of the top-notch, top-performing and socially responsible companies (places like Starbucks come to mind).
I highly recommend Mike's Auto Sales to anyone looking for a good quality pre-owned vehicle. Drive over here from the San Joaquin Valley if you have to; it will be worth it. I have recommended Mike's Auto Sales to at least one person at work already, and will continue to do so in the future. If we need another vehicle in the future the chances are very high that we'll come back to Mike's for our first look-see (their variety of brand/style offerings are also decent, by the way).
-- DSF, 2013, Seaside, Cal. read more