I recently visited Honda Cars of Katy while shopping for a new Crosstour. I have to say I could NEVER Trust a dealer that does the following:
1) Every car i could see on the lot did not have a MSRP Sticker on the Window - they had all been removed. When I asked the salesman, he gave me some BS line about the sun melting the stickers. In several cases, the stickers were in the glove box.
2) I know why of the sticker had been removed. Every car that I looked at, where I did see the sticker, had an addendum of dealer added options ranging from $3000 (on a $18,000 MSRP) to over $6000 added to a $32,000 sticker. The Crosstour with $6000 of dealer add-ons included $4000 for some crappy non-factory navigation system. Come on, that's almost 20% worth of add-ons.
3) i was quite surprised this dealer had so many glowing five-star ratings. Upon closer examination, I noted that this dealer starts of with 2 bad reviews on 2009, then no reviews for over a year, then they get 20 five star reviews in just 4 months - all from citysearch - then 2 more really bad reviews. Several Great reviews about Javier - In just a few days. Take a closer look at those 20 five-star reviews - almost everyone of the ""reviewers"" has hundreds of reviews - but even more interesting is how many car dealers some of these guys wrote bogus comments for.
I have seen many bad dealerships over the last 30 years, but this one has to be one of the most dishonest. If they remove the Stickers, add thousands of worthless dealer options to every car on the lot, and then pay anonymous reviewers to write fake five star reviews, imagine how bad these guys could screw you on the less obvious stuff.
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