My friend wanted to get a Camry on a lease. He alw...

My friend wanted to get a Camry on a lease. He always raved about the red Camry that he wanted and he picked one from the dealership more than a month ago. He was driving around the place in his vehicle and we knew his lease was not approved yet. He called the guy from the dealership who handed him the keys and the guy from the financing department frequently and never received attention on the phone. After the first few times they did not respond to his calls, he started visiting the dealership. He was made to wait for a few hours and then asked to leave since his approval would be in the next week. It went on for so long, his temporary license plates had to be renewed for another month so he could continue to drive the Camry.

The approvals never went through after more than 4 weeks. The guy who handed him the keys texted my friend to give the car back. Even then, when my friend called him up to discuss details, his calls went unanswered. So, right after work, we drove to the dealership to hand the car back if we could not purchase the car at a decent price - my buddy had gotten fond of the car.

We met with rudeness in a suit that accused us of being unethical. He claimed that we cannot drive in a car that we drove around for a month and return it and expect to not pay anything. When he was told that the guy who handed the key and the finance guy had not responded despite repeated attempts to reach them over the phone and even directly, he said he was their boss and he would not return the $2,500 deposit made for the car because we had depreciated its value by even more than that amount. He just would not admit that there had been an error on the dealership's side. When my friend let him know that he had been told every time he visited to check on the finance, the dealership folks had told him that the processing would be completed and he should take the car and that the deposit amount would be credited back to him once he returned the car should the finance approval not go through, he was threatened with litigation for being unethical about the car purchase.

The guys who made the promises about letting my friend keep the car if his lease did not approve just looked away. The guy who handed the keys tried to discuss a ridiculous deal with my friend. We were disgusted. He would not apologize for the inconvenience he was putting us through.

The boss tried to make us pick between a deal or a lawsuit. The deal was ridiculous again. In the end, we did not want to stoop as low as them and picked one so we could put an end to the ordeal. Nobody was happy about the deal, it was just the means to an end. The finance guy did not try to apologize either. He took a long time to put the paperwork together and was trying to be all business. It took longer than 2 hours to get to this conclusion.

And the ride back home in the car that was thrust on us was not a pleasant one either. I wish my friend can find some fondness for his Camry in the time he owns it. It is the worst experience anyone could have had.