Chris0nllyn
Well-Known Member
Bought a car over the weekend and just want to lay out my experience with this dealer.
Last week, I contacted a salesman at Sheehy Nissan about a used car on their lot. They confirmed the car was available and I got a final price.
Saturday came and I texted the salesman before heading to the dealer, confirming the car is available. I stopped by my bank and got pre-approved for the full amount in case negotiations fell flat. Since my bank needed a bill of sale from the dealer, we called and spoke to a manager who said the car was sold a few days prior but that they got an "identical" one with less miles and it's $500 more.
Since we got a babysitter and were really set on buying a car that day, we went to the dealer anyway.
We show up, and look at the car. Obviously a rental with some small exterior scratches that can easily be buffed out. The interior was scratched and beat up (again, a rental).
We end up meeting with the same salesman (mind you, I still have yet to hear from him about the car being sold) and test drive the car, yada, yada, yada.
We start talking numbers and we say we're not paying an additional $500 for 200 less miles on a 2019 car in that condition. There must have been some confusion because originally the salesman said the manager would go for $750 off ("We price our cars based on market research so people can get in the door"), or $250 less than the price of the car we were originally coming to look at.
Eventually the manager comes over and says the offer is not back to the original offer and only if we use their financing.
I asked if $750 will break this deal and he said yes, so we noped the **** out of there. Drove 30 seconds down the road to Waldorf Ford, found the same car, and drove it off the lot 2 hours later.
This morning the original salesman called me asking if we could do the deal.
The original salesman never told us the car we had been talking about for a week got sold. The manager could have cared less about our experience and customer service in general and seemed to get upset when we pointed out all the cosmetic issues leading us to not want to pay full price. He also seemed surprised that people would come to a car dealership to haggle pricing.
If you want a car priced cheap and don't care about the service you get, Sheehy Nissan of Waldorf is for you.
Last week, I contacted a salesman at Sheehy Nissan about a used car on their lot. They confirmed the car was available and I got a final price.
Saturday came and I texted the salesman before heading to the dealer, confirming the car is available. I stopped by my bank and got pre-approved for the full amount in case negotiations fell flat. Since my bank needed a bill of sale from the dealer, we called and spoke to a manager who said the car was sold a few days prior but that they got an "identical" one with less miles and it's $500 more.
Since we got a babysitter and were really set on buying a car that day, we went to the dealer anyway.
We show up, and look at the car. Obviously a rental with some small exterior scratches that can easily be buffed out. The interior was scratched and beat up (again, a rental).
We end up meeting with the same salesman (mind you, I still have yet to hear from him about the car being sold) and test drive the car, yada, yada, yada.
We start talking numbers and we say we're not paying an additional $500 for 200 less miles on a 2019 car in that condition. There must have been some confusion because originally the salesman said the manager would go for $750 off ("We price our cars based on market research so people can get in the door"), or $250 less than the price of the car we were originally coming to look at.
Eventually the manager comes over and says the offer is not back to the original offer and only if we use their financing.
I asked if $750 will break this deal and he said yes, so we noped the **** out of there. Drove 30 seconds down the road to Waldorf Ford, found the same car, and drove it off the lot 2 hours later.
This morning the original salesman called me asking if we could do the deal.
The original salesman never told us the car we had been talking about for a week got sold. The manager could have cared less about our experience and customer service in general and seemed to get upset when we pointed out all the cosmetic issues leading us to not want to pay full price. He also seemed surprised that people would come to a car dealership to haggle pricing.
If you want a car priced cheap and don't care about the service you get, Sheehy Nissan of Waldorf is for you.
). It arrives, and it's missing the cooling option on the seats. First attempt was to insist we were wrong. Of course it has that. Go over and walk down the list of options, point out that no, it doesnt. "Well, that's not a showstopper, right?" Duh, yes. We were pretty clear, we wanted Every. Single. Option. "Well, this was as close as we could get within the 300 mile range we can go out to". Sorry bout that, shoulda asked us before shagging off down there and hoping you could ram the deal through. So I flew 500 miles out to Ohio. 