I purchased a truck from them in the beginning of this year, I'm from Texas and I traded my Texas vehicle in to get the current truck I have. I was going back and forth with their account team regarding the price because I didn't want the truck for the price that it was at after my trade-in. Even then, I got ripped off on my trade in, but I'm from Texas and drove 23 hours to get this truck, what can I do now? And they knew that.
After the account management team went back and changed some numbers, they were able to get me the truck for the price I wanted, they told me that I would not have to pay for registration from Ohio to Texas since they are just going to transfer the plates I had on my trade-in. I still have my plates from my trade in to this day.
Anyways, I close the deal on the truck. 2 weeks go by and I get a call from a clerk telling me that the deal went bad and that I would have to register the truck myself, meaning I would have to pay around $3,000 to transfer and register the Ohio title to Texas, she cut me a check for somewhere around $800 and says good luck.
I personally didn't feel comfortable doing this, as this is not something I would think as a paying customer of a vehicle from a dealership, would have to do. This was not my mistake, this was the dealerships, so you would think that the dealership would take fault and agree to help me with this situation. Wrong.
For the next 2 weeks after that, I call the dealership almost every day trying to get in contact with someone to help me with this problem. I kept getting passed on from one person to another, until the point where I get put on hold until the line automatically hangs itself up.
One day, I decided to act as a customer that wanted to buy 3 cars at the same time, in cash, but would only make the deal with the highest manager there is at the dealership, in attempt to try to get somebodies attention after struggling to get anyone's the last 2 weeks.
After being put on hold for a total of about 45 seconds, I am introduced to a manager that goes by the name of "Bob", and that is when I break the news to him. At first, it actually seemed like he was concerned. He did nothing other than apologize, telling me that he is going to fix everything, basically everything you would want to hear as a suffering customer. He gives me his 'personal' phone number and tells me that he is going to contact me the next day with updates until we can figure out what we can do. Wow, I was so relieved.
Next day goes by, no call. Next week goes by, no call. After a week and a half I decide to call him myself since he gave me his personal number in case something like this were to happen, right? I call the number for the very first time, and a woman answers the phone and says "Good afternoon *full name*, give me one moment to put you on hold to direct you to Bob". The line is on hold long enough to automatically end the call. I call back a total of 6 more times. I never even got the chance to say a word, I was sent directly to hold without a word being spoken on either side, just for the line to hang up 10 minutes later.
This dealership intentionally deducted the registration fees and lied to me that the plates would be transferred. Just so I can take the truck for the price I wanted. This dealership took advantage of the opportunity to manipulate the numbers to my satisfaction just so I can take the truck, not caring about the repercussions I am currently battling trying to save to go back to Texas and spend over $3,000 to get everything fixed, all while paying for the car note, and insurance.
It took me 5 months to finally give an official review on this dealership because I am an extremely humble person, even after being tossed around like I am not even a human being, I did not want to say any wrong of them because maybe they will call one day and tell me they are here to help, but I don't think that's going to happen. read more