3 years ago
The very bad experience I had with Circle BMW. I w...
The very bad experience I had with Circle BMW. I was shopping to lease a BMW X2 xDrive28i when one of the Circle BMW s client advisors, Tathiana, reached out to me on 10/17/19. After answering few questions she had, and some back and forth via email, she sent me a quote. The quote was for a car listed on their web site for $37,888. It was a loaner with about 4,000 miles, which I agreed to. In her quote she stated, on 10/18/19, that the payment per month was $455.60 including taxes and fees and that the amount due at signing was only the first month payment of $455.60, no other charges. On 10/21/19 she also sent a Vehicle Retail Order with the same details listed above and also asking for a non-refundable deposit of $500. The Vehicle Retail Order clear states that the deposit is not refundable. During my email correspondence with Tathiana, I had asked all along for few financial details about the lease, including the Adjusted Cap Cost, Residual Value, Taxes, all the fees and of course the monthly payment. That information would have allowed me to calculate the Rent Charge, the Money Factor and essentially cross-checking if all the numbers provided did match or not. When she finally provided some of these numbers, they didn t compute. At that point I asked Tathiana to provide a copy of the vehicle lease agreement with all of the financial details. I was confident, at that point, that there was no way they could play any game. I was wrong. The day after ,on 10/22/19, I requested a copy of the lease agreement, on 10/22/19, Tathiana sent me another email saying that someone put a deposit on the car and the car was in the process of being sold! Surprise, surprise. She did not even bother offering any apologies and she went straight into offering to look for another car, which I declined. On 10/23/19, Tathiana sent me a SMS -she did sent me a lot of SMS in addition to the email messages- stating that the potential buyer of the car did not qualify and the car was back in the market. Again, surprise, surprise. Regardless, I reiterated to Tathiana that in order for me to send any deposit, she had to send me a copy of the lease agreement, take or leave. On 10/24/19, she finally sent the lease agreement and as expected the numbers told a very different story! The monthly payment was still $455, but the amount due at signing was now $3,705 instead of $455. Big difference, isn t it! Even the tax calculation was wrong. In their favor of course. Needless to say, I told Tathiana to go and take a hike. Another very bad experience with another car dealership.