Avondale Dodge

Reason for Visit: Sales

I recommend this dealer: No

My Review of Avondale Dodge:
I had the worst car sales experience at Avondale Dodge that I have ever had. Think of a shady sales tactic, and this place used it! During my visit I had no less than FOUR salesmen try to work our sale. We had an opener, a negotiater, a closer, and then a "good guy" come in at the end to try and smooth over the mess that the "closer" made of the deal. Unfortunately for them, they just couldn't patch things up with us.

These salesmen literally offer you things, allow you time to think it over and talk about it (we were there for 7 hours), and when you have finally reached your decision and decided to buy the car...the salesmen "suddenly" realize that they just can't give you the deal that they were originally promising you. Isn't this bait and switch? We sat down at the desk to tell them we would take the car, and the salesmen went back on the deal! They went back several stages in the price negotiating and blamed it on a miscommunication (higher price, less options). It's funny, too, because LITERALLY 2 minutes before they "SUDDENLY" realized that they were going to take back the deal, the salesman was up at the car pressuring us to take it, telling us what a great deal it was. Isn't this the age-old car salesman trick-- get the customer's heart set on the car, and then change the deal? I guess if this dealership is going to have "communication" problems, it shouldn't assign so many salesmen to a single sale.

Our 3rd salesmen (a sales manager) raised his voice at us, was rude to us, and spoke to us in a very rude manner. We walked away from this sale and from this dealership because of the way we were treated and because of the dishonesty. We just felt like dirty deals were going on here and that nothing good would come from purchasing our car here.

Luckily for us, we went to Performance Dudge in Glendale the next day and got the same car at a lower price from honest people! Yes!

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Reason for Visit: Sales

I recommend this dealer: No

My Review of Avondale Dodge:
Tim

Who owns the Avondale Chrysler dealership? I'd like to write a letter. We decided to give that specific dealership a second chance as we're still in the market...just waiting for the right moment... and again we had a horrible experience. Let me tell you about it and then you can tell me who I need to talk to.

We're interested in the 08 Town and Country. I just wanted to touch and feel the car. A really nice young woman helped us out and she was great! She knew a ton about the car much better than our last sales guy... see below. I was with my wife, my 16 month old and my 1 month old babies. (thus the mini-van) We can't test drive the car with our kids because that involves lengthy efforts to install car seats which we had the fire department install into our car... thus we don't want to take them out because they're finally in there correctly. So, then we explain how refreshing it was to find a true service sales person at that dealership and how we had some really bad experiences previously. She was very gracious and I thought that there might be hope... Then when we told her that it was feeding time for the 1 month old and that we had to go she asked if she could give us her card. Now it seems like every dealership uses this line now since no one carries business cards even though everyone has pockets.... I know that this is just a line to get another sales person (usually a sales manager) involved in the conversation to get me to drive a car and then to buy the car that day. This is rude and unprofessional and insults my intelligence. So to emphasize how urgent our need to go was we got into the car, strapped our kids in and started the car.... Of course here comes our nice sales girl without a card but with her manager who proceeds to tell us that we need to drive the car... how original. I explain to the guy about how our last experience there ended, how I understood his sales tactic and that I was not going to fill out his survey, drive the car, or spend any more time there. We explained that we couldn't drive the car because we had our kids with us and he suggested that he could watch them.... To which comment I told him to not be offended but that we didn't know him from Adam and that we would never leave our kids with someone we don't know and that it was rude of him to offer. The conversation went down hill from there until finally I just backed out of the parking space with this guy yelling at me... HE CHASED ME OFF OF THE LOT TELLING ME HOW STUPID I WAS FOR NOT SPENDING MORE TIME WITH HIM AND DRIVING HIS CAR. PLEASE.... why would I buy for him if he has no respect for me and my needs. I am absolutely amazed and the poor level of service. I just wanted to look at the car and compare it to other cars that I was interested in. Honestly I'm not in a position to buy the car right now. We're still a few months off and we're trying to build a relationship with a dealer where we feel comfortable taking our car for service and buying subsequent cars from... Avondale Chrysler Blew it again...

By the way I'm posting this on every rating board I can find. I'm writing to all the local news papers and I'm filing an official complaint with the Better Business Bureau for harassment.

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Reason for Visit: Service

I recommend this dealer: No

My Review of Avondale Dodge:
The worse service I have ever seen, service manager (Ken) not help full took over 45 plus minutes to see you. will try to blame you for your auto's problem and is not willing to do anything without you calling a lawyer. Forget about calling to find status of your auto Ken will not return your phone call and if he dose it will be over 24 hours. will tell everyone I know to go somewhere else for service. very poor way to run a shop.....

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Reason for Visit: Sales

I recommend this dealer: No

My Review of Avondale Dodge:
I took a trade that was valued at $17,900 they gave me 6,000 for it and turned around and sold it for $26,000 the following weekend. Do not go to them at all for anything, they will RIP YOU OFF!

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