Went in to test Drive Expedition Limited Stock #s 241459 242200 identical trim packages (2024 USED Courtesy Vehicles both w/ 3K miles +/- each) trying to sell as new vehicles. Lie #1
Dealt with Chris H, nice enough guy. But then you get Ryan involved and the bait and switch begins never honoring the price listed on the dealer website, in fact raising the price up and down 4 times this Friday, so we walked out said we will think about it. As we were leaving I reminded Ryan you have 34 Expeditions on your lot, I don't need to buy one, we explained this to you all in the beginning of the conversation. Spoke with Chris H.through text his last line read "We will not miss your business". So I texted him back and simply asked do you really mean that last line? His response (without reading back) I never say anything I don't mean". I replied, Really you meant "We will not miss your business". Took him a day but I guess maybe someone read it to him or maybe he actually go it - We went back in Friday - and Chris H.was busy so we started working with Elijah, always stating we don't want Chris H.to miss out and we don't want a 1K car payment, again enters Ryan to mess up the deal, First Elijah went back and forth twice then Ryan two more times, Ryan must think people are stupid and can't read, don't have a memory of the previous encounter or how many times he keeps changing the price on the vehicle. the vehicles were listed on their website as 65571 and 65759 (Remember these are both Courtesy Vehicles Considered Used 2024 with +/- 3K miles on them (advertised on their website with less miles) that was Lie #2. They jacked the price at one time to over 91K what the are they thinking. They say you can't have the website price and a low interest rate, I am calling Bull (you know what) these guys are full of garbage, bait and switch tactics at the highest level. A good salesman wants the sale and will make anything happen including listening and hearing your customer (which Ryan lacks in both aspects). A customer can have both - but when you are a greedy dealership - you just keep baiting and switching the price up.
When I first met these salesmen (I use this term loosely) 1) no payment over 1K preferably 800 at max 2) Don't want this back and forth 3) I don't need to buy 3) I have a nice vehicle with new trim and tires less than a month old 4) I want the best interest, the website price, and willing to buy your Used Courtesy Vehicle with +/- 3k miles on it 5) the website price for the fact that it is USED / NOT NEW, again non listening is the name of their game.
I phoned on the weekend to discuss and Elijah answered the phone in sales - I asked to when Mr. Bonnet would be working I would like to discuss the treatment, Elijah young man, needing the sale that Ryan screwed him out of, asked if I could hold a moment then he put I don't know who and I don't care who he was, I do know his extension is 5895 he called himself the Director of Sales (titles mean nothing to me - for they are just that a title). He said would you be willing to take another vehicle that someone turns is with Buyers Remorse, let's say 20K miles or less on it - I said you do realize I offered to buy your USED Courtesy Vehicle with +/- 3k miles on it - why would I want to go up in miles - I told him this - read the Art of a Deal (read something to help you understand sales) - Understand the want and need - I wanted to buy an Expedition, but I don't need the Expedition. You Need to Sell the Expedition, because at this point you now have 37 Expeditions on your lot all/or most with the 2024 Year on them. I ended the call for I was in the store and don't have more time to waste on this nonsense. I told MR. Extension 5895, I paid cash for my King Ranch Expedition, and my husband just made a 1M deal with a hospital system - my husband went to the table with a deal, they countered, he met them in the middle and bam he landed the deal - he had no need to go back and forth so many wasteful times and ruin it - So comparing this Southwest Ford and my husband - I guess my husband understand the Art of a Deal.
Buyer beware before you step in the dealership, take photos of the paperwork they bring with the continual changes in price and payment, I think the Gilchrist family, should pay more attention to their customer treatment and ratings, simply because Ryan and Ext 5895 does not. I should have read here first with all the bad reviews, but we didn't and we went and wasted our time with the bait and switch tactic - I do not need a vehicle, I wanted one - so it is very easy for people like me to walk away from this behavior and bad treatment of customers. I feel everyone needs customer service training, mostly Ryan on how not to lose a deal.
Original Date January 26th, we walked out of, Chris asked us to come back Bell to Bell Friday, January 31st that he would make a deal - above is a combination of those two dates and the mess that occurred. read more