TL:DR. Customer Service not well. I was just a transaction…read more
Interested in an M5 this dealership had. It was decently priced and searching around Fl, Only two I was interested. I called in a few days before to express interest. Referred to Manny, who the finance person said he'll take care of me. I plan on coming in to look at Sat, and to show my seriousness. Says he only has a 1pm appointment. I drove first thing in the morning, for 3 hours, to look and possibly negotiate the car. I test drive, didn't notice anything too much mechanically. There was a sensor that was popped off and some dings on the carbon fiber. After the test drove, I never gave a number/offer, they had the car listed around $83,700. I expressed willing to put a security deposit, but we need to come down on the price. He made it seem like he can make it happen. He talks to the sale manager at the time, and come back. However, states something around the lines of "after discussing with my manager, we cannot come down in price. We have 3 more viewings after you, and don't want to depreciate the value and would rather see if one of the 3 would be willing to pay our asking price." He also states that his manager said "if I'd be willing to finance through the dealership, they'd give me $500 credit." In shock I expressed and asked, that "the car has been sitting for months, and I'm showing interest, and you turn me down in hopes that someone else would buy it?" And now, a car that's been sitting there for months, and Manny said has 1 showing, now all of a sudden has three? I leave. I tell Manny call me after the weekend if he wants to discuss a sale. He agrees.
The weekend goes by and midway into the week. The car is still listed on their site. Did Manny call? Of course not. Being in management myself I decided to call the dealership and ask to talk to manager to express my experience from that previous weekend. I get transferred to another sales manager, Matt. At first, he seemed sincere, he said he'd look into the situation, talk to Manny about it, and get back with me and see if he can do anything to help. Thinking back about the entire process. I felt he was just telling me what I want to hear to get me back in the shop. I'll explain. I mentioned the car was listed at $83.7k. Manny said they can't go down anymore. Matt replies and says he can do $82.7k. At the time I was dealing with South Orlando Jaguar. Mind you, the same physical dealership is the same as South Orlando Range Rover. I showed him, that the other half of his dealership has the car listed at $82.2. He then decides to offer me at $81.5. I agreed. He gets me with finance to discuss financing and any add on. In the midst of all that my wife convinces me to trade in my car. It's an older Lexus, but to me a rare one, and and maintained one. I was transparent about the car. Regularly maintained and serviced. However it's a 2008. And my recent dealership visit, it was advised to start planning or doing reseals and gaskets. And I told that to Matt. I gave him the vin. He comes back at me saying "at the mileage I have, I have to highest Lexus ISF in the nation". Which later come to find out, is not correct. He said at that high of a mileage, he doesn't know if anyone would pay for it, and it will likely go to auction. But he said for the sake of the sale, I'll offer $7500 in credit." He also OFFERED/stated, "that's my rock bottom weather the condition is better or worse. Let's get it on the lift, if it looks better, I'll give you more, if it's worse, I'll still stick to my 7500." Little did he know I went to my local Auto Nation and Carmax. They offered me 9500. I told that to Matt and he said he'll match it and again, lets put it on the lift and we'll see if I can get you more. In short he never gave me any additional credit even though he said he'd likely would. They never honored the 500. And later found they listed my car to sale at $15k. And they just "low balled" me at 7500 with the intent not to give me more, if it weren't for CarMax. First and last transaction at this dealership.
