Reason for Visit: Sales (New)
I recommend this dealer: No
Employee(s) Dealt With: Jeff Muchnik; John Martin; several others
My Review of Bernardi Toyota Scion:
Jeff Muchnik is an incredibly friendly, insightful salesman whom we'd recommend to the ends of the earth.
Unfortunately, his bosses are better at mangling sales than managing sales. I bought a car from Bernardi Toyota earlier after getting a pretty good Internet price quote. I got angry at myself for not walking out when a $300 documentation fee magically appeared -- mandatory, but not part of the quote. I was also told the finance guy "had" to go through the spiel on the Simonizing. Nevertheless, the car was a decent price, so we went back to Bernardi when we were looking for the next one.
The bad taste in my mouth quickly got worse. We got a surveyor asking us how happy we were with our new car ... before we'd come close to closing. Then the next day, a sales manager named John left a message at my home to confirm an appointment that night with a different salesman. Then John Martin, a different sales manager, calls to confirm the same appointment with the salesman I'd never worked with, for an appointment I never made. I took this to be another pressuring sales tactic and called. John Martin denied ever having called me, though both messages were still on our machine; he never tried to explain how another salesman somehow got involved to undercut Jeff Muchnik; he never explained where this magic appointment came from. Instead, he argued with me about whether I felt harassed, which in turn felt like harassment. He gave me his word the phone calls would stop. We returned to work with Jeff Muchnik on the premise our old car was getting totaled, something that wound up falling through. Then I got a message from a Toyota surveyor. And then another one called.
The sales managers in essence lied, broke their word and either were blindingly incompetent or playing high-pressure sales tricks. On top of that, they offered what turned out to be a terrible price. I only hope Jeff Muchnik's talents and charisma are some day discovered by a different dealership.
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