3 years ago
SCAM !!
SCAM !!
Nissan called my husband to offer a car etc... went in on Sept 10th to see a Sentra but i wanted a Versa instead. Nissan always calls since we have a lease that ends in February 2020. They were so desperate to make a sell that they offered to take care of our lease (remaining balance); sounded like a good deal but told the sales guy we were over in our mileage due to the lease terms. He then went back and forth with his manager and finally offered to pay the balance off on miles. So then i was still not sure since i did not like the basic Versa i test drove. Told the sales guy; then he said there was an upgraded version but it was about $3,000 more than the basic one. I told them, let me go home and think about it. At that point one of the managers came and said "what if i give you everything the sales guy said he offered and upgrade the Versa for the same price?" That sounded like an awesome deal, but of course before making a purchase we told them we would think about it. They insisted we would get the color i wanted and it would be towed from Dallas. We went in to get paper work ready, ran credit and put some money down. That night we left in a loaner while we waited for the actual car. We went back on Thursday Sept 13th to finalize everything and the car that was towed had over 200 miles. My husband looked at the paperwork and seemed way off. With the $3,000 down our entire balance was almost $34,000. Keep in mind credit is not an issue here at all. Gave us a higher APR (6.90%) than the previous dealership where we bought a Cadillac with a (4.3%) APR. We asked why was it so much but everyone was supposedly clueless. They said GAP was required, maintenance for 2 years and extended warranty for an extra year. We then told the guy we did not need any of that except the GAP. Still balance was way off. We asked for total price before interest, taxes, title and all the extra stuff. They tried to sell me a Versa that was originally close to $19,000 to almost $26,000. We asked why and no one knew until i decided to not go through the deal. One of the managers was so unprofessional and started arguing with my husband and even calling him "bro" also started throwing at us that he did not charge us for towing, rims, tint etc... We told him, that is not what we agreed on, we still wanted to know why the balance is higher. He finally got fed up and said " well, we had to add the remaining balance of the lease somewhere". By then we told him nevermind but instead started arguing and told us "get an attorney involved or whoever you want but you already signed some paperwork, how am i going to look with my manager explaining we have an extra car now?". I insisted, its not what we agreed on so we left.
***(Keep in mind that the sales guy and my husband were texting back and forth during the deal). We had just made my payment for our lease and asked him where that money was going and he replied "The payment you did went towards the Altima and reduced your lease balance, so the balance we are paying off includes your last pmt."
Another manager named Mike approached us and told us he would check out our case. The next day we called corporate and they opened up a case, they were trying to be helpful but insisted the general manager had the last word but was out of town. Mike called my husband and had a different deal. He took everything off (Gap, extended warranty, maintenance) and gave us a (2.90%) APR and also offered to give us back my down payment. Total balance was brought down to almost $30,000. Yet, still they were charging me for the lease $5,700. He said "the sales guy worded it wrong". My husband just walked out and left, we were down 1 car for 5 days until Nissan decided to back down from the deal and gave us our lease back. Only messed up part about this is that they ran my credit. I will NEVER do business with them again.
Word of advice, read everything. I wonder how many people they actually get to scam !!!