4 years ago
"Pinecrest you can do better"
"Pinecrest you can do better"
Normally we purchase/lease using car apps like TrueCar and Edmunds but wanted a test drive and heard reasonably good things about the Pinecrest dealership in our neighborhood. Test drove two cars with salesperson who acted like they were doing us a favor. When negotiating price of car, same salesperson used every trick in the book, "system is down", "let me talk to my manger", "what is your monthly payment target", getting up every minute or so to talk to his superior, etc. We received a ridiculous quote - which I quickly checked on my phone was many thousands of dollars higher than fair price offers - and tried to explain that we were only interested in the fair price and a fair price deal. However we got the feeling this person was annoyed with us for wasting his valuable time and frankly was acting rude and unprofessional.
Even though we were taken aback by the obvious rude behavior, ultimately I do not think this is only a problem with this salesperson but a problem with the philosophy of this dealership. I watched the showroom very carefully. Rather than a transparent process, this dealership has opted for the old fashion haggle with salesperson approach and/or just trust your salesperson to do it right. Yikes. In this day and age, within a minute or so we easily can find the fair price of any car, so why put stressed out shoppers through such nonsense?
Living in the area, we wanted the convenience of going to a Pinecrest location but I will not do so now or ever again and I will not recommend this location. In fact, I have already easily found much better deals that I was able to complete on line that allowed me to not only obtain a fair price but completely customize my options and financing within about 5-10 minutes.
** UPDATE: Not only was I able to complete my online purchase at another dealership, and got a great deal, but they even delivered the car to my house the next morning! Now that's what I call service!!