3 years ago
We decided to order a camper and put down a deposi...
We decided to order a camper and put down a deposit. We changed our minds a few days later and they refused to refund our money. On 8/6 we decided to order a 2013 Wildwood 36BHBS camper to be built . We put down a $1000 so they could place the order to be built and delivered in 6 weeks time. My wife went to our Credit Union immediately to find out what rates we could get and we found out about some blemishes on her credit that made our interest rates extremely high. We changed our mind and decided to fix the issues on the credit before we purchased. Our Salesperson, Lisa Schnapp never said one word that the money was non refundable if we changed our minds, and we never signed any paperwork. We called back on 8/10 to cancel after we had determined our credit needed repairing before we could purchase with a decent rate. When I called to cancel, Robert Hall answered the phone. Robert was the first person who informed me that the deposit was non-refundable. I used to work with him at Yark Automotive in 1999 selling automobiles and I thought he was playing a joke on me. When I realized he was not I asked to speak to a manager. Robert told me that "no managers were at the store, they were on vacation." After I insisted, Jim McGuire got on the phone. I told Jim that my wife had made some late payments on her car and we had some medical collections that we needed to dispute before we would be able to get a decent rate. I explained how we had the Credit Union pull her credit and credit scores. Jim listened and was very insistent that he could get us a good rate, but I stated we don't want our credit pulled anymore because we were told that pulling credit can also lower your credit score. After about 10 minutes of saying "no, not at this time," Jim said fine and I asked for the charge to be reversed on my credit card. Jim agreed to return the money. After I got off the phone, I looked up the All American Coach website and saw that I was lied to and Jim McGuire was the General Manger and was NOT on vacation as Robert Hall stated. I felt one week was sufficient time to return the money to my credit card. I checked today 8/17 and it was not returned. I called back to inquire why and I got the President of the company, Tom McGuire, who proceeded to tell me that I again was not going to get my $1000 deposit back because they don't want to make the Wildwood camper company mad at them for cancelling an order. Tom did not say the order could not be cancelled. I stated that I would call and cancel it myself because I have worked in manufacturing before and know that as long as no contracts are signed and production has not begun, manufacturing companies will cancel an order. Nothing about the order was custom made so no custom parts should have been ordered that we would be responsible to pay. We were more than willing to purchase a camper at a later date from All American Coach after we took care of the credit issues, but with the way we were treated, I do not see us EVER purchasing from there again.