WOW, I wish I read these reviews before driving an hour to this place, because here comes more of that same..
My boyfriend and I went to this dealership after finding a Jetta we were interested in on cars.com. The car was listed at $5,695. We took the car for a test drive, everything was checking out (mostly- the heat didn't work), and once we were done with pleasantries, we went inside to talk business.
Once we got down to numbers, our $5,695 car instantly DOUBLED to $10,785.
DOUBLED. Like, 2x the price he told us.. Like, almost $5000 more.. WTF, what just happened?
He attempted to skim over this minor detail, talking fast, but we said woah, hold the phone, how does that work? Our salesman turned to computer monitor towards us, dickishly, the cars.com ad pulled up, and pointed under the price to where it stated 'does not include tax, tags, title and dealership fees'. Okay,obviously buddy, but that doesn't account for $5000.
When we asked for a breakdown of the price, our salesman told us, "Aw figuring that stuff out is like rocket science, I don't even know how to do it! [hearty chuckle] That's why I leave it to the big wigs over there in financing! [points] [runs away to financing avoiding more questions]"
'Rocket science'? Seriously? To make a list that says car = this price, tax = this price, etc? Now he was getting condescending.
We told our salesman (before numbers were flying) we would either buy the car outright or get a loan from Pentagon Federal. He insisted we apply for financing, just to see the comparative rates; long story short- the first APR he brought back to us was 15%. I kid you not. (Side-note: If we were blind, deaf, and dumb and took that rate, car price is now tripled.)
After reallllly pulling some strings, talking to some friends, breaking some rules, you know, all that nice stuff they don't do for just anyone- they got it down to 10%, then to 7.5%, as we were pulling out of the parking lot he ran up to our car and told us man, he would be in some trouble, but he knew we loved the car, so he could do 5%. Resisting the urge to run him over, we left. They then called both of our cellphones several times.
Random notes:
-Our salesman told us mid-chuckle, sandwiched between lots of costs he was throwing around, maybe hoping that we wouldn't catch it, that the MD state inspection costs $1,500. Yep.
-Our guy kept mentioning that he was a 'Christian fellow', this seriously came up several times, unsolicited, in less than an hour. I think this was a tactic to make us think, 'Hey! A man of god! He would never dick us over!'
-We wanted to buy the car outright initially (before knowing the price was twice the listing), an idea that they did not acknowledge, entertain, nor touch on. When we insisted, our salesman kept throwing lower APRs at us.
The bottom line is when they saw we were a young couple, new to car buying, the blind-leading-the-blind, they turned into rabid dogs smelling blood and shamelessly treated us like idiots while smiling through their teeth at us. We all know used car salesmen cliché, but man, they truly embodied it.
We bought a similarly-priced car yesterday from a different dealer and after all was said and done, the price went up only $700.
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