You cannot setup an appointment with the service d...

You cannot setup an appointment with the service department on Saturday, okay. First dealership that required payment before they worked on a vehicle I was having inspected from a private party, fine. ~$120 is a drop in the bucket, but ask me to pay when I scheduled the appointment. I made it clear to who I was scheduling with I was out of state and paying.

They made this private party wait 40 minutes and would not start the service -- because I was in a meeting. I've done this with other private parties selling their vehicle and gladly paid for a pre-inspection diagnostics. Free pre-inspection for the private-party and I get a better idea of what I am getting myself into. None of the other dealerships asked me to pay ahead.

The service advisor's wasn't friendly. The scheduler, on the other hand, was wonderful to work with. At the end of the day, you would think the dealership would do the work instead of making the private party wait. The whole situation was poorly handled.

In other news, the private owner in this particular story notified me he knew the owner of this dealership. The dealership I randomly chose for his vehicle to be inspected at. After all of that, I walked away from the deal.

For a previous vehicle I was interested in, the private party ask me to pay a dealership in advanced. No problem, I called that (other) dealership to pay, they wouldn't take my payment. They told me, and them, to wait until the service was completed and once they had a ticket written up then I could pay. That private party understood and that service went perfectly fine.