So here's the thing. I walked into Oak Motors (South Store), and previously I was told to see Chad Hampton when I arrived. I waited for the longest time before he even helped me...maybe about an hour and a half. FINALLY, we sit down, I tell him what I am in there for. They're "supposed" to have a down payment assistance program. I told him I would need that because I couldn't afford a down payment at this time. He says, ok no problem, we could run some papers through and see if we can get you "approved" for something. I said ok, sounds great!
He had me take a clip board out to the lot and write down stock numbers of the vehicles I was interested in. He told me to bring it back inside. One of the vehicles was a truck, and it seemed to be nice, but I figured it might have been out of my range. He said to call him or he would call me the next day. When I called, he said that he had a meeting...ok understandable, it's Monday. THEN, I waited a couple of hours. I figured by this time he wasn't going to call me, so I called him, or tried to. He was busy with another customer, so I waited for awhile and called back. He gets on the phone, tells me that I was approved for 2 vehicles from the list. I said ok, which ones? He said one of them is an HHR, and he couldn't remember the other ones. I said ok great, and I said, "you're sure that I am good to go, that I will definitely get one of the cars, and HE told me, YES!!!! He asked me if I was coming there tomorrow, which was the next day after speaking to him, and I told him I would be in the next day around 9am, and I asked him if he would be there. He said no, but another salesperson, Mark would be glad to help you, and I said alright.
My mom and sister out of the greatness of their hearts, took me up there to GET a new car for myself. I get to the store, and there wasn't a friendly welcome at all. I waited while the manager was on the phone, and the salesperson Mark was on the phone as well. I didn't even get, " Hello sir, welcome to Oak Motors, someone will be right with you."....nothing.
I waited there about 5-10 minutes, I don't know, cause I didn't keep time..Then, Mark called me over to help. I told him my situation, and that Chad was previously helping me. He looked into everything. Brought out a list of vehicles, rather than 2, that I was approved for. I went down through there and he asked me if there were any that interested me. Mind you, this whole time, he didn't seem that friendly, didn't even have service with a smile, so I was already uncomfortable. We go out to the lot, and we look at an HHR, and it wasn't 100 percent comfortable, so we walked way on the other side, and looked at another HHR, then a couple of other cars, then I sat in a Malibu, and it seemed ok. He asked me if I wanted to test drive it, and I said no, I kinda want to go to one of your other stores because Chad told me there is a bigger selection. He said ok, and he grabbed a list and it had a couple of vehicles on there. A Chevy Impala, and Grand Marquis he was wanting me to go look at. He called some Steven person at the WEST store, and tried to get me to go there to look at them.
Supposedly, they do this trade thing, where if I were to get a car, just in case, I bring the car from the WEST store for example, and basically trade vehicles. SO, Mark brings around a Nissan Sentra, of which was older and much smaller since I am a bigger guy, and he knew that. I tried to drive it because he wanted ME to take it to the other store. Ok, but WHY are you going to have me take a car to another store for YOU? Why doesn't someone else take it. You're not paying me a penny to do this.
I told him I couldn't fit in it at all to drive it, so I asked if my sister could drive it, and he says...."well maybe I need to send that Malibu over..." Talking about the Malibu I looked at on their lot. Then he goes inside, and I am sure some crap was said just to get rid of me, and Mark came out and said that all of a sudden, Indiana Finance said I needed a cosigner and 1500 dollars down, without the assistance.....UMMMMM OK???!!!!!??? All of a sudden because I couldn't drive a car that YOU or someone else working there should have driven to that lot, and you come back with that crap? Totally a fix on the manager's end, and as I said before, he was never friendly, and never spoke not one word to me. The manager working there, TODAY to be exact...his name is Steve Howard. As a matter of fact, he never spoke to me the first time I went in there.
SO, I could do nothing, but sit in my mom's van, and listen to all of these stupid excuses this other guy was coming up with. I at first gave him the benefit of the doubt, that hey, yeah you did just take over for Chad not being here, but at the same time, I was furious with him too because he never made me feel appreciated, and furthermore, there were excuses after excuses, after excuses. Chad played me, and I am NOT happy. All of them did. DO NOT GO THERE!!!! read more