Rippin' It!

David Stanley Dodge.  Or as the advertising jingle goes… “David Stanley leads the way”… to lies, lies and more lies.

So June 2009 I decide I’m going to buy a Dodge Challenger.  I shop around and on the Internet I find a stripped down R/T advertised at $33,000, give or take a little.  I call the dealership and ask about the price and sure enough the confirm, $33,000.  I decided to go test drive the car so I called again and verified the asking price was $33,000.

I drive to the dealership where I meet a salesman and I tell him, “you have a Challenger for $33,000, I want to drive that car” and after a few minutes of searching he finds it “in the back”.  We drive the car and during the test drive I ask several times, about the $33,000 price.   He confirms the price all the way.

So, arriving back to the dealership I’m sold on the car.  I tell the salesman to see the best price that can be made.  After a few minutes some greasy headed guy comes out and with a smirk says, $38,000 is the “best we can do”.  Wait, $38,000?  What happened to $33,000?

After a short discussion he informs me he can only sell the car for $5,000 over sticker and there was no way he could sell the car for $33,000.  So, apparently anything your told either on the phone or in person is not necessarily the truth at David “leads the way” Stanley.

A quick Internet search reveals much of the same, here’s some examples I found in just a few minutes:

I will rate this company below poor. Do not give them your phone number they will call you several times a day. Worse than a telemarketer. They tell you several price quotes for the same car. I would rather walk then to buy a car from this place. The are liars. Do not trust David Stanley Dodge.‎..

After getting back home that same night, which was a Saturday, I got on the computer and started looking at David Stanley’s website. To my surprise I found the same exact truck, I know this because the VIN and stock numbers on the website were the same numbers that were on our purchase and finance paperwork. But the price they had advertised on the truck was $35,872.00, almost a $10,000.00 difference…

Went to purches a new Ram 2500. the trip prior I had asked for the best price they could give me, Chris the manager lied and didn’t tell me of all the discounts…

And the reviews go on and on and on.  I have little doubt this is a high volume dealer, they are in a good location.  I bet a million suckers a day drive by that slap joint.   Google reviews has their ratings at not more than 2 (out of five) for all categories.  The satisfaction rating is 1.1 (out of five).

I wonder who the .1 was?

David Stanley is representative of all that is wrong with the American made cars.  With dealerships like this Dodge could build the best car in the world and the overall rating would still be 1.1.

This is a dealership that should be closed.  Well, investigated and then closed.

Beautiful Black R/T

So here we have one beautiful black R/T for sale at a Texas dealership. This car is not only stunning it is loaded. I has the Nav system, iPod controls, heated leather seats with inserts, steering wheel controls and its a Hemi six speed.

This car is listed for $40,000+.  No question whoever buys this car is going to be one proud owner.

But I can’t help but wonder how proud and happy they are going to be when the walk around behind the car and find the dealer has placed a dealer advertising sticker on the back bumper.  Not only a dealer

I mean seriously, what is wrong with these dealerships?  If I bought, or even worse, ordered this car and walked around behind it and saw this I would go ballistic! This car isn’t a Chevy Cobalt or a Hyundai Accent, this car represents a $ amount equal to many of our first homes.

Dealerships like this only prove they don’t care about the cars they are selling, the don’t care about the person buying the car and they have no respect for $ you are going to pay to support their salary.

Personally, I think this practice of pasting advertising on the back of YOUR car is something the consumers should absolutely not allow.  Next time you walk into a car lot to look at cars and you find this type of advertisement tell the salesman you might be willing to buy the car if they have one without a dealer billboard on the back.

Tell them you’ll continue to negotiate if you can see what the car looks like without an advertisement on the back.  If they won’t take it off during negotiations, walk away.