I just picked up a new Infinity QX60 from HM Brown and am and more than delighted!
Especially since I had initially gone to Rickenbaugh Infinitity a week or so before and had been ready to purchase a used JX35.
I live in Steamboat Springs. I made a special trip to test drive the 2013 JX35 (same care as the QX60, only older). Martin Spierin helped me. I decided to buy the car, got approved for financing, agreed to pay a healthy down payment, sign all documents, but needed to wait a week or so to get a ride down from Steamboat to pick up the car. After 30 minutes of back and forth with Martin and the sales manager, the sales manager said he would not hold the car until I came to pick it up (the following week), despite my willingness to provide them with the down payment and sign any necessary documents, that day.
Rickenbaugh holds itself out as offering a better way to puchase a car, away from the obnoxious hassle of most car dealerships. Wrong! While they may offer fixed, no hassle pricing, they are typical of the dishonest, game playing, car sales men that kept me from buying a car, for years. I'd rather be waterboarded! Completely uncooperative and not customer friendly. For example, despite my request to review the financing and other related paperwork prior to purchasing, they would not provide me with the paperwork. I explained that since I would be driving down from Steamboat, I did not want to waste time reviewing the paperwork at the dealership, as I needed to head back up to the mountains quickly. I explained I needed to review the paperwork beforehand, so I could essentially, 'sign and drive'. Despite my request, circumstances, willingness to provide a substantial down payment, they would not commit to providing me with the paperwork in advance.
Further, the salesman, Martin Spierin, assured me, that since the sales manager refused to hold the car for me for the few days until I could pick it up, he would let me know if anyone was interested in purchasing the car, so I could act fast, if need be. Instead, he notified me by e-mail 2 days after the car had been sold. What a colossal waste of time and energy!
However, two good things happened. 1) I know now to avoid Rickenbaugh Infinity like the plague and, 2) to use HM Brown for all future car purchases. They did everything Rickenbaugh wouldn't. They held the car for me until it was convenient for me to pick it up, even without the down payment, and provided me with the paperwork to review prior to leaving Steamboat to pick it up (I was out of there in 10 minutes), and they got me a phenomenal deal! All, with no hassle, honest dealings, and with none of the back and forth, manipulative baloney, I experienced at Rickenbaugh Infinity. BTW, I used Trent Denman at HM Brown in Colorado Springs. He was wonderful! read more