3 years ago
In summary: Worst car buying experience we've ever...
In summary: Worst car buying experience we've ever had. I've never worked so hard to give someone my money. Do not shop here. Tell your friends not to shop here. Spend your money elsewhere and save yourself a lot of misery.
In detail: This was a good experience until we committed to purchasing a vehicle and signing our names on paper. At that point, we were handed off from one person to another (working with a total of 5 different people!), with poor communication between the employees and multiple mistakes made. There was no disclosure of the total price, financing options, or APR until we explicitly asked for it and, even then they were not forthcoming with the information. Additionally, our initial APR offer from them was over 5% until we informed them that we would be financing through another company. At that point their APR offer quickly dropped to less than 3%. We stuck with our other financing options.
By TX law, the dealership has to register the vehicle for you. We wanted to register the vehicle in our home state and transfer my old plates, as we're only in TX temporarily. We were told that we couldn't do that. A quick call to our home state DMV confirmed that, yes, actually we could and suddenly the problem was solved. The dealership also held onto the registration paper work for 3 WEEKS after everything was official, further delaying the registration process. They had initially told us the paper work would be mailed off the same week we received the vehicle. This is unacceptable. When I called to check the status of the registration, Michelle, the Title Clerk, rudely interrogated me as to why we chose to register our vehicle in a state other than TX (she did not approve of our decision).... obviously mailing a stack of 10 papers instead of 5 is too much of a hassle, even for someone who has just spent over $40,000 with your company. This is an example of pathetic laziness and extremely poor customer service.
We have continuously had to call and go back to the dealership to follow up on paperwork (I went back 3 times after we signed everything) and they always come up with an excuse as to why the job isn't finished yet. What it comes down to in the end is they only want your money and are not concerned with maintaining appropriate business integrity, honest disclosure with their customers, or good customer service relationships. I would give them 0/5 stars if I could.