I can't believe how this dealership treated us after our "first hello". Our sales guy, Pete, was new and pleasant. My husband and I liked how responsive he was to questions even after we left the dealership. The GM Paul, I thought was ok in the beginning, promising us top dollar for our Subaru trade. This was the first of 4 dealerships we actually went to and had our first test drive. Of course, in order to get the actual figures, they had to run our credits. We also were very transparent with them, letting them know we are shopping and are not ready to make any deals that same day. Our lease will be up in a month and we're not looking to waste time either. Paul told us that shopping won't do much, a few dollars difference will be all the difference we could get as our credit scores were not stellar. That's fine, it was still our prerogative to shop around so thanks for your input. He ran our scores and told us what tier we were in and how much we were looking at for our new lease's monthly.
We went to the other dealerships and Pete followed up with us so we told him we were looking to move forward elsewhere. To cut the long story short, we went back and forth with them, as we did with the others who were trying to get our business and beat the competitor. Secor was able to finally beat the best offer, or so we thought. An hour before we were to sign and days after they took our down payment/ deposit to hold the vehicle, I got a call from Pete as I was driving to meet my husband at the dealership that it turns out we were looking to be $30 over in the monthly payment they had initially quoted and sent us paperwork for. I was livid but knew it wasn't his fault so I asked to speak with the finance guy, Kevin, for this big error and was transferred to Paul. After we said our hi's, Paul proceeded to subliminally insult me by saying "well apparently" our credit scores were not over 700 as they were made to believe and we did not meet the criteria for the monthly payment they had quoted us. I was beside myself as I could not even get a word in. Finally, after numerous failed attempts to stop this crazy man from berating us even more, I asked if he was done and if I could speak -- "go ahead", he said. I then told him, 1. never did we misrepresent ourselves of having a higher score than we did. We were not looking to waste any time and needed exact figures to make our educated decision, 2. They ran our scores the first time we ever saw them and that's how I knew what tier we belonged to (he denied they ever ran our credits before that day. Then how/ why the h*ll were they haggling with us in the first place if they knew nothing about our finances?) 3. I said he must be confusing us with a different couple because when we sat in his office the first day and filled out the paper app, he knew what our scores were and said we should be fine, just not where we might want to be (he denies ever meeting us in his office or filling out an app. That was the only app we ever filled and signed, so if we did not have any apps, how did they even know we were going to be $30 over their initial figures? And how would they know our credit scores did not qualify us? Doesn't make sense if he took a second to listen to himself.
After all the denials and lame excuses for the error which he would not even acknowledge, he abruptly cut me off to say he will refund us our deposit. Mind you, he knew I was on my way for our signing, which was now supposedly happening in less than an hour. I've never felt so insulted and berated in my life -- all for an error not of my doing. No apologies were given at all. It was the most insulting conversation I've ever had with a sales person trying to earn my business.
Not recommending them even if they paid me! Stay away!!! read more