If I could give Quality Auto Mall less then one star I surely would. The only benefit I did have was finding out how bad they really were BEFORE I purchased a vehicle from them. I work A LOT, so finding the time to shop for a new vehicle was not an easy task. Since I work in Newark, I met my brother in law and mom there after work at around 7 pm after they drove 45 minutes to meet me there so that I could look at a White Ford Escape Limited that a friend of mine had found online for me. A salesman came out and we went to look at the car. He went to get the keys, took a copy of my license, and was okay to deal with through this and the test drive. Car was nice and ran smoothly besides the black transmission fluid (which they agreed to change before I purchased the vehicle). After working on number (and leaving us sit there for quite a while) we couldn't come to the number I needed, but we were so close that I figured we would be able to get there eventually. At this point it was about 9:45 at night, they were closed, and I really wanted to get home. The salesman talked me into leaving a deposit on the truck to hold it so that they couldn't sell it before I got there the next day. The general manager came out and told me the same thing, assuring me that he was going to try and figure out what they could do for me to get to the number we needed. Great! At this point I handed over a $100 bill as a deposit on the car and told them I would be back the next day. I thought that it was a little weird that the General Manager put my $100 bill in his WALLET to hold the car and I received no paperwork, but hey... it was after hours so maybe they closed things up already.. and anyway I was coming back in less then 24 hours. I received a call from the salesman the next morning to see when I was coming and if he had time to take another customer, which I though was really nice. I told him I would be there around 12:30pm, so that he could go ahead and help someone else and that I would wait for him if I got there and he was busy. Good thing he called though, because he never gave me a card or told me his name (though I think he said it was Mike when I got the phone call).
I asked a friend of mine to go with me to the dealer so I had someone to help me work the deal with, so we took the 45 minute drive to the dealer ready to purchase this car. I parked (in the same spot I did the night before), wore my hair the same way, and I think even had on the same hoodie. I saw the same salesman on the lot so we walked down and I waved as we were walking to let him know it was me. This was not even 15 hours from the time I left the dealer the night before. He came up and asked if he could help us and if we were interested in buying a vehicle (I thought he was kidding) -- I said "yea" and laughed.. then said "that's what I thought I left a deposit for"... he proceeded to say "Oh, you're Kelley?...Too late, we sold the truck" (Again, thought he was kidding). Apparently he wasn't as he said "I'm not kidding, they sold it about an hour ago...sucks for me, since I lost the sale..but, nothing I can do about it it's gone." -- WHAT?!?!? He then proceeded to say that if I wanted he could give me my deposit back (and that he just had to figure out where it was). When I asked what the point of a deposit was if they were going to sell it anyway (it's not as if I disappeared for a week...this was 15 hours later and he had talked to me to confirm I was coming earlier that morning) he said that if I was there by 9:30 am the car could have been mine... Well, of course it could have been! They don't open until 9:30 am...I didn't have to leave a deposit for that! Moral of the story is that I basically drove 45 minutes and spent multiple hours at this dealer for them to hold my $100 for 15 hours and me drive 45 minutes to pick it up. I have never been so appauled with the lack of professionalism, disregard for procedure, and overall experience of working with this dealer. I expect to be ripped off at a dealer, but this took it to a whole new level. I will NEVER purchase a vehicle from them (even though he tried to see if I wanted to look at something else after that) and other people should think twice before doing so as well. However, if you're in the area All American Ford in Hackensack was only 15 minutes away, happened to have almost exactly the same truck, were polite, courteous, worked with me...oh, and wrote my name on the truck saying "SOLD" when I put my deposit down for it!!!!!! They were fantastic and the poor excuse for a dealership that Quality Auto Mall is should take some tips (but i'd like to thank them for royally screwing me...I got a much better deal!) Overall, Quality Auto Mall are a bunch of scheming, shady, unprofessional people that should learn to treat customers better if they want to get business. read more