3 years ago
Worst customer experience we have ever had. We had...
Worst customer experience we have ever had. We had financial difficulties do to me being hospitalized because of my military service. It caused us major Financial problems. We needed to buy a new car and we understood because of our past problems that it would be work to get a vehicle. While on the phone with him, I explained that we had a prequalify with cap 1 and that we are two and half ours away from them. The last part was important because it s the day before Thanksgiving and we didn t want to spend the hours sitting in there. I asked if a deal could be made before we arrived (Price, military discount, & contract etc. ) He kept pushing for us just to come down and they would make it happen. I told him that because of our situation and distance, we were not going to come down until they ran credit and a deal was done. After about 2 hours, Mr. Asturi told me that he ran everything through his finance manager and everything was ok. He was going to have the car cleaned and ready for us when we arrived... So we drove almost 3 hours in Thanksgiving traffic for this vehicle. When we arrived there, we could see the vehicle sitting out front of the building like he said, but it clearly wasn t cleaned at all. He offered for us to take a test drive, which we did just to make sure everything was ok. (Vehicle wise it was fine) When we tried to figure out things in the car, he replied that we could just Youtube information about it because he didn t know anything about the car. (this is a Nissan dealership and the car we were purchasing was a different brand used car, but come on!!!) Even so, he s the sales person, he should be able to tell us something. When we get back to the dealership, this is when we realized that they haven t done a thing as he told me they have. They still needed to go run all the information to get an approval. Secondly, I told him previously that we weren t looking to make a large down payment at this time. Capital One had approved us with no money down. At this time, he said they could t use capital one because they don t take all the taxes etc into account correctly. The price of the vehicle jumped from 30k to 38k all of a sudden. When I asked why, he claimed that we didn t get the $1,500 credit because we weren t using their finance company. I asked about the military discount that he promised me, he then says that they don t offer rebates for used vehicles... At this point, I felt that they were doing the bait and switch. He know all of this information beforehand, but decided to lie to us just to get us down there. I was ready to leave, but my wife said we drove two and half hours and just to let it go. On top of that, Mr. Asturi was very condescending in the way he spoke to us few times. The finance manager also kept trying to sell us add on products that we didn t want. He tried to sell us GAP insurance, maintenance, and road side assistance. He kept saying I want try to add this if you don t need it, but he kept pushing the products. I said how much would it cost if we didn t get it. He told me it was only a $4 monthly difference. He was lying because after I saw the reviews from the company and decided not to get it, the monthly car note dropped by $55 not $4 like he lied about early. ... I could tell he was upset that we didn t get the extras, because he was basically banging on his keyboard to reprint the contract without the add ons. Once everything was signed and we walked back out to Mr. Asturi to get the keys and tag put on the vehicle so that we could leave, Mr. Asturi put the tag on the back of the vehicle, but had to though out one more condescending remark to us before we left.
I would give zero stars if I could. We got on the interstate to head back to Tampa and realized the car was on E!!! How do you not put gas in car for your customers that just purchased a vehicle from you?!? As a disabled veteran, I would recommend staying away from this place. They will do anything to make a sell.