It's a 5 for the sales rep I dealt with and a 1 for the sales manager and owner. There was an RV on consignment (not initially mentioned) which should have made it easy to get information on the rig but did not. One question that came up was in regard to CarFax listing as a commercial registration for the last almost two years of ownership. I requested that they contact the owner to get an explanation but the response was that they had a current registration in the owners name. Owner claims regular yearly service at a local shop but CarFax has one record of an oil change thousands of miles away. This RV has almost 85000 miles on it so it's important to know how it's been cared for. Owner also said tires were purchased two years go but CarFax shows the purchase in 2014, four years and many miles ago. I did share the CarFax with the dealership.
We did negotiate a trade price and we were 1000 dollars apart which I offered to split but I never got a clear answer or formal offer in writing at either price. As I recall their first offer was in a text message.
Weather was an issue in getting my rig there but the manager was not willing to write up any offer specifying an amount of deposit, time limit or subject to final inspection due to the uncertainty as to when I could get there. The impression I got coming out of that discussion was that there was no case for taking a deposit and that it would be for sale until they could see my RV, because I specifically confirmed it would be for sale until I got there.
When I mentioned a few days later when the weather was clearing up, I could get there in a few days but asked again about price and terms. Since any moneys would take a few days to get and would have to include tax and license and would require a deposit, I asked again about a deposit, the response was that I must not be interested any more. I said the opposite was true. I don't think asking questions should be cause to think someone was not interested
I reiterated that my questions were because I was interested and wanted to proceed. It's now been over 24 hours with no response so I'm walking away.
I believe they must have interests from others that might net them a better deal so they are putting me off. That's their prerogative but a response of some sort would be the professional thing to do not a blank stare. I feel bad for the sales person I dealt with since I think they bargained in good faith and just have a bad manager or owner.
Responding to Tads comment, no you did not offer to take a card and hold a deposit. The discussion with the sales manager was just as I described. After we discussed the uncertainty of when I could get there there was no offer to take a deposit under any circumstances, I was told it would be for sale until I got there. In a follow up email, I said I would get there the next week if they would take a deposit, subject to them seeing my unit, and that I was willing to go home empty handed if we could not agree on the price based on inspection of both units, there was no response. Subsequent to that I mentioned discrepancies with what I found with CarFax and the owners comments, I cautioned them to make sure they had the correct title, since having the registration with the owners name did not tell me how it was titled, and that I thought the owners should be made aware so they could clear it up and again no response, I said I would pass. Sorry, Tad but your manager is a jerk and dishonest to boot.
How crappy of you to misrepresent the transaction rather than offer how to make it right or contact me directly rather than hide behind an dishonest reply.
What is really sad was I was going to go back today to see if we could put the deal back together until
I read this which did not appear until quite a while later, and I still would if their response was somehow a case of mistaken identity. read more