I made a yelp account for the sole purpose of ripping this dealership a new one.
I chose this dealership because they had the car I thought I wanted and I wanted to make the deal on everyone easy. Well, turns out I didn't like the 6 as much as I thought and decided to go with the much peppier and fun-to-drive 3. So after the test drive, I told Jacob that I wanted a 3. Went into the showroom to negotiate.
They lowballed the crap out of my trade (2012 Mazda3 130k miles), which should have been a red flag from the get-go. I was able to get another $500 added. I was happy with that.
I told them I wanted a white 2018 Mazda 3 GT with the white leather interior. The salesman goes over to the sales manager, RICHARD HAMMOND "Rich", who tells him that white on white doesn't exist and I can't have it. Well, that was the WRONG thing to say to me, who had been researching these cars for weeks. WRONG THING TO SAY to someone who has a. designed it, and b. watched a review on that exact car. So, the sales manager, RICH, decides to see if he can source it for me after I pushed back. Red flag #2.
They find one. Now the numbers have to start adding up and they start talking financing. I already had financing, but it was "outside," so they didn't like too much. RICH starts grilling me in the showroom about the rate of the loan I got and my CREDIT SCORE. IN THE SHOWROOM. WITH OTHER CUSTOMERS AROUND. Red flag #3.
After my initial shock that RICH would be so rude to ask me those questions in the showroom - and he was not being quiet about it, by the way - they gladly took the check I wrote them for my down payment and couldn't get it away from me fast enough. RED FLAG #4
They said that they had found what I wanted and it was at another dealership in NH and they would get it for me Monday (this was a Saturday) and they would call to tell me that it was at the dealership. Ok, great.
Well, Monday rolls around. NO CALL. Finally, call the incompetent Jacob to see if my car had arrived. "Yup, it's here, should be ready for you to pick up tomorrow or Wednesday. WE WILL GIVE YOU A CALL WHEN IT'S READY." Great, can't wait!
It's Tuesday, no call. Fine, they have to finish installing the mobile starter, no problem.
Now it's Wednesday. 12pm. NO CALL. Call JACOB. "Yup, car's all set, you can come get it tonight and finish up paperwork, etc."
Great! Leave work right after that because I'm REALLY excited about getting my new car!
Get to Werner, finalize the paperwork, they sucker me into a ResistAll package (white leather). "Oh, we didn't register it because we only go to the Mass registry on Mondays. We can still go and you can bring the car back." Nope, I don't have time for this BS. Finalize everything. The finance manager was very nice and helpful.
JACOB offers to, once again, pair my phone to the Bluetooth, which I couldn't care less about. Get the car home, and it dawns on me that no one ever showed me how to use the Mazda Mobile Start or give me more information on it.
Call JACOB. "Oh, yeah, sorry, we never installed that."
"WHAT???" "Yeah, it wasn't installed." THIS IS WHY YOU HAD THE CAR FOR AN EXTRA DAY!!!!!!
"You can bring the car back and we'll install it and give you a loaner."
Also, in the meantime, discover that they never gave me the all-weather mats that I ordered.
Bring the car back on Monday, drop it off with the nice girl in the service department, Emilie, she tells me it will be done the next day and they will give me a call. Great.
Tuesday - "your car is all set, just bring your spare key with you so we can program them." WHAT? WHEN DID YOU MENTION WHEN I DROPPED THE CAR OFF THAT YOU NEEDED TO PROGRAM MY KEYS?? HUH? YOU DIDN'T.
"Well, I work in Boston, so looks like I'm not going to have time to go home, get the key, and come to Manchester."
"Oh, so you can't come tonight to get it?" ARE YOU SPEAKING THE SAME LANGUAGE AS ME? NO.
The service manager, who was told about my disdain, calls me back and I get some runaround from him. Honestly, he keep talking so much that I just kind of zoned him out.
Well, go to pick up my car, again, with my spare set of keys, and when I see my car, it's filthy. They offer to "run it through" the car wash again. At this point, I am so fed up and just want to drive my F---ing car. The service manager comes over, I voice my complaints about the service AND sales department. He says he will get the "other" sales manager to come to talk to me. It's the POS RICH. I don't want to talk to you, I tell him. After seeing that he won't leave, I light into him and tell him everything that they did wrong.
Just now, when I was getting something out of my car, I notice that there was a piece of plastic in the center console that looks like it came from the original factory wrapping. DID YOU APPLY THE RESISTALL???EXPECT A CALL TOMORROW FROM ME AND QUITE POSSIBLY MY LAWYERS.
DO NOT BUY A CAR AT THIS POS DEALERSHIP.
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