My experience with this dealer is in trying to purchase a car, but I expect that the service can't be better than it's poor management. I recently tried to purchase a car that I found on the Internet. I called first, found the vehicle was still available. As I live a couple of hours away, I was told that I had to put $500.00 down and fill out a credit application to hold the car. I did this, and made arrangements to take off work to go to the dealer and finalize the deal the next day. A number of hours later, I get an email that someone had come in and put $2000.00 down on the car so they sold it to someone else. This isn't a good practice but sometimes mistakes happen. Life goes on. As it turns out, the car still showed up on the Internet. I called and was told that the person that bought it to come in from out of town to finalize the deal and pick it up. I got an email from the general manager, Tom Broadway saying that he would be happy to help me find a car. I responded right away giving my phone number and asking for a response.... I guess Tom wasn't very interested in me because the response to my email never came, so I called and left voice-mail which also went unanswered. The next week the salesman called me saying the original deal on the car fell through. Again I asked him if we could hold it to make arrangements to leave work and purchase the car. He took a credit card number and assured me that the car would be there for me to look at. Ten minutes later I get a call saying that this time management says they can't hold it. Rule change? Who knows! No problem, I tell him that I'll just purchase the car and told him to put $2000.00 on my credit card and I'd get out of work and get the car. Three hours later, they call me and again say that someone just bought the car that i had put a down-payment on. I had put the same amount of money as the last customer did when they sold it to her. I was willing to pay the asking price, and there was no haggling on this car. I purposely went to dealers and avoided private sellers and small car lots thinking that I would escape this unprofessional behaviour. After spending all this time and countless emails and phone calls trying to make sure we did this right, it really made no difference. At the end, I sent one more email to the General Manager, Tom Broadway explaining how horrible my experience was, not believing that this was how he or AutoNation expected their dealerships to treat their customers. Again. no response. I could have gotten better customer service on ebay. They obviously have no customer satisfaction culture and make or break rules at will. If you go there and your experience is better than mine, consider yourself extremely lucky. I would avoid them as there are plenty of other dealerships that really do value prospective customers.
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