Bernadette Holloway

Review of Hendrick Honda Charlotte

We received a marketing flyer from Hendricks Honda...

We received a marketing flyer from Hendricks Honda on South Blvd. inviting us to a special buyback and sale that was being held at the location beginning tomorrow, 6/21 through Saturday only. The flyer indicated that they would offer you the base MSRP for any vehicle you have from 1991 - 2010 for the year that the car was made minus up to $.50 p/ mile over the standard 12K miles p/ yr. We have a 2005 Nissan Quest, MSRP for the base model that yr. was listed as $23,200 and it has about 117K on it, but it is in great running condition, looks good and is an SL, not a base model. They also included a check for up to 8K to put towards the purchase of a new or used car on their lot.
This all looked really good, a bit too good, but the advertisement stated that even if you owe more on your current vehicle than it is worth, this offer would overcome that barrier to buying a car.

So, my husband went over there today with our three kids to see what the process was all about and to be certain what the provisions were with this offer. Basically, it was another "bait-n-switch", which we should have been expecting. They took all of the mileage 117K at about $.17 p/ mile off what they would give us for the car, so offered only 4K, which was not how the advertisement read and told us initially that this offer was only good for the purchase of a new car, which was also not what the advertisement said.

I get that they need to make money too, but don't send out this kind of advertisement if you are not going to honor it. We read all of the small print and nothing in that small print said anything about limiting the buy back of your vehicle to Kelly Blue Book, if that was the case, we would have not even went in to talk with them. It was a waste of my husband's time, 90 minutes and my kids, who did great as they waited had to sit through this farce as well.

SHAME ON YOU HENDRICKS! I will make sure everyone I know hears about this practice and you will certainly not see us buying from Hendricks in the future and we did go there with the intention of buying a car, had a check ready and everything. We will continue to work with Modern Nissan, they were straight forward, never lured us in with this type of shady, "used car tactic" and we knew where we stood with them and what they could do for us. We aren't looking for free, but we do expect to be treated with respect and for a company to honor what they advertise....Hendricks did neither!