-Came in, was assured that the price of the vehicle I was looking at was the price I would pay, no hidden fees, no extras. I was OK with this. I had a bit of a time crunch, so I expressed this. I picked a vehicle, and was assured it may be ready by my leave date (end of Saturday). It was Friday.
- I came in for 11:30, they said it would take an hour or so. It was actually 6 hours later when I left the dealer. I had brought a colleague with me, who was my ride, but every time he came to sit with me, the guy with papers would leave the room. They kept telling me they were negotiating with the guys in the back for having my vehicle to me "that day", even tho I kept saying the next morning was fine. It was like they were creating an artificial problem with timing. I was on the phone getting stuff insured for the next day, so I kept having to amend my insurance based on the updated information they kept dropping when I was on the phone. I was missing work calls and appointments like crazy, and every time Ideen would come back in the room with a new update on timing, I'd pass it off to my colleagues but none of them wanted to deal with me by the 4th or 5th time a timing update came. I missed out on a lot of time-sensitive work that day, and it's going to affect my performance.
- Finally, the paper explaining my payments came. It was around 2:30-3:00PM when it was put in front of me, nearly 4 hours later from our original time frame.
- Ideen kept telling my friend and others he was "showing me the options", but I was never told that the extra 16k of add-ons they he had hand picked for me were additional to the warranty coverage I was seeking. So they got all these 16k extras in on my final pricing whcih explained why my biweekly cost went up. I had literally 0 idea what I was looking at - not once did he say the things on the paper were options. Again, this added 16k of extra monies on my bill but I thought this was all standard comprehensive coverage warranty stuff. My colleague had left by that point, and work was furious with me, so I thought if I just signed whatever he had and left I could salvage those relationships. I should not have caved to the pressure to leave right away - that was my major mistake. I think they banked on me being exhausted and confused by the end of the process, and really got what they wanted out of me.
- I was asked if I wanted to leave and come back, and said yes, but they didn't arrange a ride and when I went to the salesman they said was off and would drive me home, he changed his mind and kept me there for another hour and a half.
- When everything was signed, I drove off the lot and went to see my colleague to see what I could fix that I missed that day - he handed me a stack of deadlines I'd missed, and I handed him the paperwork I signed. He took one glance at it and said: "I thought you only wanted skid plates, winter tires, and a roof rack? Why did you get all these extra add ons?" and I said, what do you mean "add ons"? That's the price for the warranty stuff - isn't that warranty work stuff? And he laughed and said 'you even took the life insurance'? And I said, 'What do you mean, "took" it? Isn't that standard with the coverage?" and he laughed again and said they put me in a room for 6 hours and separated us so I would be exhausted and sign anything they put in front of me to leave. I literally never saw it that way - I believed every single time when Ideen came into the room and said he was 'working hard' to get this thing set up for me and that was the reason he was out of the room so often talking with the guys in the shop, and that leaving on Saturday woldn't work for them I needed to leave with the vehicle today, etc
- When I got home, my boyfriend said I wasn't stuck with it - he said I had 24 hours to go cancel the vehicle sale altogether, but too bad I drove 15 hours to get home, I could have just returned the vehicle the next morning.
- Me, feeling completely taken advantage of and stupid by this point, tried calling the dealer to at least cancel the life insurance and all the other things, but they wouldn't pick up the phone, Ideen was out, the finance manager was out, I said give my information to whoever is dealing with sales and finance today and call me back, but they didn't.
- - It is now Sunday, and they're open, so I'm going to keep calling to see if I can cancel any of this additional 16k of extra services they sold to me in bad faith, making me believe it's all part of the package, and hopefully I can figure out how to afford this thing. My boyfriend says if I need to go bankrupt at the end of the day to get out of this, he's probably seriously reconsidering some aspects of our shared finances... I feel really bad now, my relationship with my boyfriend, my clients, my work, my colleagues, all of this was seriously damaged by this visit and now my future finances look like they're ruined too read more