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| - Eric was sly and deceitful. We were looking at a new 2016 Nissan Versa. When we started talking to them about prices they asked me if I wanted to trade in my old car. I told them "no, I have thought about it, but I don't think I'm interested". They then asked me all the details about my old car and told me they would buy it for $650, totally ignoring that I repeatedly told them that I didn't want to trade it in. Then we started talking prices for the Versa. After some haggling they got me to understand that I would pay $8500 before taxes and fees (those would be $1726 more). I was thrilled about that price. They then repeatedly pushed me to sign their paper, which said $2000 down payment with $169.99 a month for 60 months. Eric had done some calculations with those figures before and told me that was $8500. When they asked me to sign I told them "I will pay $8500, if that is what your $2000 down with $169.99 a month for 60 months means, I will sign." They then just kept telling me to sign, without saying whether or not those terms really added up to $8500. After I persisted in not signing until they put the total price down, they told me it was really going to be $10,500, not $8,500. It was $8,500 after the $2000 down payment. I don't feel like $10,500 is such a bad price, but I felt like they were very deceptive. They kept trying to get me to sign knowing that they were deceiving me about how much money I was signing to pay. That to me is absolutely dishonest. They also kept telling me to finance with them, even though I am pre-approved for a 2.24% interest rate loan with my credit union. Every time I tried to leave they kept trying to stop me, saying "what would we have to do to make you stay?". Honestly, if they don't want me to leave that badly, I think they don't me to see that their competition is better. Good salesmen with a good product should be confident that a smart consumer will come back to them if their deals are really so good. I would never go back to this dealership because I felt like I couldn't trust them.
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