September13,2021 we ordered a 2022 Ford Maverick truck XL from Greg Lofton (fleet sales manager for 4 years) at Shawnee Mission Ford. We signed the order forms along with Greg and paid a deposit. He said the Maverick should arrive in a few months. After waiting 6 months we spoke with Greg again, and he said the possible delay could be from the additional "add-ons" we ordered, so we removed all but the factory trailer hitch. After 9 months of waiting, we took off the trailer hitch, now the truck was stripped from all "add-ons" changing the existing price of $25,915.22 plus tax to the MSRP of 19,995.00 plus a destination and delivery fee of $1495.00 plus administration fee of $499.00 plus Kansas sales tax. Which is what we were expecting to pay, plus sales tax, less our deposit, when the truck arrived with the VIN: 3FTTW8E34NRA72730.
We got an email from Jim Beadle (the new Ford fleet manager) stating that our long wait was over, and the Maverick had finally arrived. We went that day to see the Maverick, and to make arrangements to pay. The Maverick was currently being worked on at that time for a factory recall and Jim told us it would not be ready for a few more days. (We were hoping to trade in our 2020 Ford Ranger XL, until Jim quoted us a really low trade in price.) We decided to not trade in our Ranger, and we would use our bank to finance or just pay cash. Marlayna Morgan (new car sales manager) stepped in, and said we could not use our own financing and that we had to use Shawnee Mission Fords financing for a minimum of 6 months, and that the final price of the truck would be $1659.00 higher than what we were originally quoted, because when the truck arrived at the dealership they added an additional spray (scotch guard type of protection) to the interior. We thought we had no other choice but to finance through SMFord, but not pay for the after market spray, so Jim started filling out the paperwork for the financing. Josephine did not know her SSN so the financing was left incomplete. Jim walked us to the entrance of the dealership and we told him we are still interested in purchasing the Maverick, and that we still had a deposit on the vehicle. We called Jim the next day and told him we would be out of town for a few days and would contact him when we got back, after all the truck was not available as of yet because of the factory recall.
We were so disappointed with Marlayna's "take it or leave it" attitude. When she first approached us, she accused me of being combative, she also told us that Greg Lofton had been fired. She would not give us the owners contact information when we requested it. She also told us we had to pay for the additional spray of $1659.00 (we never were told about this additional cost until she gave us a purchase agreement), and that we had no choice but to finance through Shawnee Mission Ford. We found Dan and Amy Diedrich's (owners of Shawnee Mission Ford) email information online, and informed them about their dealership unethical and unprofessional behavior. Dan e-mailed us back stating that his dealership did nothing wrong, and then accused us of trying to make a "straw purchase" and that we declined the terms of purchase therefore selling our Maverick out from under us.
If we could give them a Zero review we would! read more