This place is the reason for the stereotype of the gross, pushy, used car-salesman; the epitome of the chauvinistic 'I know everything and don't waste my time unless you're buying RIGHT NOW' guy and THIS is why people want to buy cars online. These men treat customers with such disrespect it's disgusting. They aren't there to help you buy a car, they're there to sleeze you into buying a car.
Let me preface this by saying, I used to work selling cars so I saw the minute these guys were trying to take advantage. Upon walking into the dealership nicotine saturated and hygiene efficient suit placed himself 6 inches from my face and eagerly breathed out, 'can I help you?'
I replied, 'no thank you,' and said I would continue to look around and let him know, smiling. To which he asked, sarcastically, 'oh, what's the problem? Was I too aggressive?'
I looked around and by the time I'd decided which car I had questions on, an eager, pony-tailed gentleman approached. He knew NOTHING about the car. Didn't know what kind of tires it came with, didn't know what came standard, barely even wanted to show us the car. So, ok he was overly pushy, he was aggressive, he had a story for everything and supposedly, knew my family, ((yeah right)) he was everything a seedy car-salesman shouldn't be and everything the stereotypes are made of BUT he was fake-nice so I let it go and sat down.
He asked what I wanted to pay for the car per month. I said, no I want to know what the car costs. He said but I need to know what you want to pay or I can't give you a number. I refused. He frustratingly gave me a number.
After a lot more back and forth and him not knowing and not wanting to tell me the residual or whether or not there were any manufacturer deals, I said 'it's just a little high for me, I just want to know if you can do any better?' He would ONLY continue to speak to me if I agreed to give him my credit card and sign and pay that night! I've never come across that kind of fake bartering and never done it to anyone when I was selling.
The manager, Idk Dan or Chris maybe, overheard and came over, laughing, and saying he could help. He agreed with the salesman and would not negotiate anything without a credit card. Finally, I said, 'fine, I just want to know if the car can be discounted anymore and if not, that's fine, just tell me."
The manager said, 'if I get it to what you want will you buy tonight?"
I said, "I never said I would buy tonight, I'm car shopping - the same way everyone else does. I just want to know an idea of a payment and if it can be discounted at all because I need to buy by the end of the month and would be willing to move for the right deal.'
He asked what I would feel comfortable paying? I said about $315, he left, pretended to talk to another manager, then came back and said "ok, 315 but you have to put a little more down, ready to pay tonight?"
As if I'm stupid - you can't move money from one column to another and then tell me I got a deal. They took about $200 off the car and thought I couldn't do lease math. Wrong.
My brother, who was with me and the one who will drive the car, was so turned off by the rudeness that he said, 'give me your card, I love the car, I'm going to think on it and call you tomorrow.' and the intention really was to call because my brother loved the car.
The manager stood up, ripped the piece of paper up into tiny pieces and said, "no deal. this deal is gone. I only do deals on good faith with people I can trust. I don't know why you even came in here to look at cars if you weren't ready to buy." And then tried to shake my hand. I refused and he walked away mumbling and cursing something.
Before we walked out, the salesman asked the same question, 'why would you walk into a dealership with no intention to buy?"
My father is on his 3rd chevy from curry, my mother has her 2nd chevy from curry. After this NONE of us will have anything from curry.
PS we paid more and got a jeep, cause we could afford it but refuse to buy from a**holes. read more