3 years ago
First of all I d like to say I hate internet hate,...
First of all I d like to say I hate internet hate, however a very bad situation arose this week with this dealership.
I took my daughter there Nov 21 to look at a used Honda Civic I d seen on their website. My daughter is 16 and ready to find a car, we have been looking for a Civic for over a month that matched what she liked. Upon arriving we met sales person Charles M. English was not his first language, we are a very well travelled family so that did not concern us in the least, to begin with.
Charles showed us the Civic and that it had a sold sticker from the day prior to our visit. We were late, it was our problem someone beat us to the car.
Charles however was sure he could find us another Honda in our price range for my daughter. I was open minded though knowing they didn t have any comparable listed on their website but again maybe something came in.
Charles got his sheet of used cars out and we looked through it, there wasn t anything we were interested in but he insisted we look at an accord 2k over our price.
Our family has owned Civics and Accords, we love them.
So when Charles took us to see the accord we had to walk to the dealership next door which I think is Hendrick also, we go thru the back lot and I see no Honda s, clearly Charles is lost. He asks others who work there where the car is and they look as puzzled as us following him around on a cold day.
It turned out the accord was back where we started right where we parked and where our search with Charles started. The accord was out of our price range and not what we wanted but finally found so we could leave but Charles begged us one more minute, so we are polite, we go in and he runs a search like we did at home finding the same thing we had, they just didn t have anything for us. We are ready to bolt as we are heading to other car dealers. Yet again, give me one minute, now a manager appears, he understands us completely and he knows he hS nothing for us so we leave.
Two days later our family is watching a movie in the theatre 40 miles from this dealership.
Charles calls and says the Civic we wanted is back for sale, the person buying it couldn t finance it, only 8k but ok I bite, if we come now I tell him will you hold it and we will take it.
So we leave the movie, our choice but $39 down drain, to run down to pay for the car, I suppose you know what I am about to say, the car was still sold!!!!!!!!!!! He knows it when we arrive, my daughter is distraught, our very rare holiday day ruined.........Charles tries once again to show us his list of cars, he says look here 2014 and 2013 Civics for the same price as the 2012 we want only that he is looking in the mileage column not the price column, i point this out and he holds his head and says oh no, totally mad I just walk away, Charles says nothing, the family is upset, and my 16 year old says as we leave the parking lot, why is it that she knows more about their cars than their salesman does?
Today I got a call from a woman at the dealership calling to see if we were coming back to see Charles to buy a car, now she must know I ve called the General Manager and the Used Car Manager and left a message to call me, she heard my story this morning before 10am and was very apologetic however I ve not heard another word since, no return calls, no nothing.
I ve been telling my friends how awful my experience was and so so many have said oh I could have told you not to go there, then they have their own stories to tell, how do they stay in business?
I truly have a connection with Hendrick, he had leukemia the same time as my best friend and they shared the same doctor, I would see him getting treatments the same time my friend did, I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt, he survived my best friend did not, I participated in bone marrow drives for Hendrick, but I will not return to that dealership ever again!