My son and daughter-in-law live in the deepest part of GA, the part where big dealerships don't exist. That means you have to drive an hour to find one. I did that and found this place. I should have looked harder.
First, this place is so cliche. From the deep accents, to the way they treat women like they're idiots when they try to buy a car, to the way when you walk in they just got a week's worth of gossip off of you.. Listen to their hold music, it will take you back to Hee Haw. I think it sounds ridiculous, but I'm not their demographic so whatever.
Got a salesman who lied through his teeth. If you want someone that is so classically a car salesperson, see Dusty. Whew, they crafted all TV salesmen after this guy.
He tried high-balling me on a car (his job, I get it) until I took out my smartphone (so high tech!) and started looking around at other car lots near and calling out random prices until he came down. He still jacked me, but again, his job. I get it. I'm not mad about that.
This is what I'm mad about:
While waiting on finance I had my grandsons with me. They LOVE cars. Their dad builds them and has instilled a love of them and so in a car dealership they were giddy trying to drive the latest Stingray (as any normal, car loving boy would do) and ride the motorcycle with the clown face on it. MY daughter in law and I were trying to get them to the car, they were being a little loud and we didn't want them to disrupt the place when my daughter in law overheard this overweight, ugly woman sitting at the reception desk (YES, SHE WORKED THERE) sneer in her deeply southern ignorant accent 'when I tell MY niece to come on, I only have to tell her once.' My daughter in law does not like passive aggression and asked the woman what she said and they almost got into an argument. I stepped in and asked what the problem was and this woman's face wrinkled up like a bad horror movie character and I wanted to say 'you DO realize I'm a customer here and I'm about to buy a car, right?. Instead I just told her to never mind. She went back to talking under her breath which is fine with me. I don't have to sit behind a receptionist desk and answer phones at a shitty dealership and wear KMart clothes, so whatever, but I was irked.
Went to finance and talked to some guy who told me I had bad credit so the terms would suck. I pulled out a recent credit report (it was in a work folder coincidentally) and showed him what a liar he was. He told me that what he used was 'official.' Except what he was telling me was on the report was wrong. I have never had a loan through Wells Fargo AND I bank with them. You think you run up bad debt with a bank they'll give you multiple accounts? Do I look stupid? Or just female? Anyway, I ended up going through my credit union which gave me a super low rate. These guys are just...ugh.
As an addendum to just my visit to them I also had MASSIVE problems with the truck they sold me. I mean, for months and months and thousands of dollars.
We found out that they had just gotten the truck that day or the day before, but really, really recently. So recent that they didn't do any checking of the vehicle before selling it. No engine check, parts check, nothing. The interior was FILTHY. That was fine, we knew they could clean that (eventually). There was everything wrong with this truck. There were so many problems that the finance manager (I forgot his name) offered to give us our money back. We should have now that we think about it.
I would not recommend buying used from this unprofessional, shoddy dealership. I'm not from the country, I don't have to lie or be nice. They need to shut this place down, it's a rip off. read more