Michael Zafiriou
Michael Zafiriou at Volkswagen of Downtown Chicago
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General Manager

Volkswagen of Downtown Chicago

1111 N Clark St
Chicago, IL 60610

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4.4
99 Reviews

With over 20yrs of automotive sales experience, I value excellent customer service above all else. Love to help people with finance needs and credit hiccups. Started in 99' at a VW/Nissan dealer and 20yrs later, I find myself back with VW! Huge Animal lover and have 3 wonderful pets Lucille, Stephie, and Kitty. I learned excellent customer service and incredible attention to detail from ABT Appliance & Electronics back as a teenager. Please stop in and say hi!

Dealership Experience

5 yrs, 7 mos

Industry Experience

25 yrs, 2 mos

4.4

99 Reviews

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99 Reviews of Michael Zafiriou

April 03, 2020

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Our sales rep made the experience!!!! Nick Freeman! Love my Jetta! He was so professional, patience and knowledgeable. I highly recommend this dealership and Nick Freeman More

by Aimeeparra23
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Yes

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March 23, 2020

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Went in looking to buy a new car. Sales department help me out greatly. Help me to find the car I was looking for would reccomend going to this dealership More

by JOSH
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Yes

Other Employees Tagged: Bill Dolan, Jason Halley, Rich Marsili, Arthur Matlosz, Bill Prince

March 17, 2020

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Worked hard to "make it right" This dealership wanted to "make it right" per Michael Zafirious. That wasn't easy in my case - I was upside down on the loan for my trade in, purchasi More

by Satisfied
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Other Employees Tagged: Herberto Delgado , Kenny Akpan, Miguel Meza, Boris Nikolov, Denis Tomsa, Mark Newton and others in Finance

February 20, 2020

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Very helpful and Accommodating and have me a great deal Very helpful and Accommodating and have me a great deal for my trade also Went the extra mile To pick up my new care which was located at another d More

by cocolez1971
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Yes

Other Employees Tagged: Arthur Matlosz, Ian Roth

January 21, 2020

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Great Service Center, terrible sales and sales manager Bill, the service manager, was great to work with. He’s very carrying and polite and was focused on making our experience to Volkswangen’s standards. More

by MARTINIV
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Other Employees Tagged: Chris Smith , Bill Dolan

December 09, 2019

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THE WORSE CAR BUYING EXPERIENCE IN 45 YEARS TALK TO MICHAEL ZAFIRIOU AND MARK IN FINANCE AND INSURENCE. I purchased a VW Atlas on 11/2/2019 THEY HAVE NOT PAID OFF MY TRADES AS OF 12/9/2019 I GOI More

by mikewade1
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Other Employees Tagged: Donnie Avramov , Anthony Bermeo, Bill Dolan, Mark

December 09, 2019

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New car purchase We acquired the VW Tiguan 2019 and the experience was awesome! Great service and easy to do business with them. Anthony took the time to pick us up at More

by Javier Leyva Novoa
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Other Employees Tagged: Anthony Bermeo, Wesley Teicher

November 26, 2019

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Great experience Manager Mike Zafiriou and sales person Angela Berg were very friendly and helpful! They made buying a new car an easy positive experience. Thank you b More

by AMELIAARRIGO
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Other Employees Tagged: Angie Berg

November 23, 2019

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Easily the worst people I've ever made a large purchase from The process was rife with lies and threats coming from Mike and Jason. Jason has the emotional stability of a hormonal teenager, which once resulted i More

by mike.w.richardson
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Other Employees Tagged: Donnie Avramov , Jason Halley, Bill Prince

Dec 20, 2019

Volkswagen of Downtown Chicago responded

It is unfortunate that mr Richardson left with those thoughts. We were unable to get an approval on this loan initially due to credit issues and a previous totaled car that he initially told us was paid in full by his insurance company which turned out was a lie. His sales rep, the finance manager, and the store manager called over and over and over to get either proof of payoff or to bring our car back and Mike Richardson refused to do either for several months. He would not speak with Jason and finally opened up lines of communication with me. I had not initially met Mr Richardson but since he refused to take calls from both his sales rep, finance manager, and the store manager, i offered to get involved. We worked incredibly hard to get an approval and when we finally did, we gave him additional time to muster up a small down payment. Considering he lied initially about his payoff and then refused to bring our car back, We still allowed him time to come up with his down payment. He is upset with us because we did not pay off his old car. He did not buy it from us or trade it to us- it was totaled. He never asked us to pay it off nor did we ever promise to pay it off. We are not even entirely sure why he thought we would pay it off for him. We simply had the bank waive that stipulation so he was able to buy this car with less overall money down. It’s almost humorous that we did all these things and he still gives us a terrible review! Either way, we were still happy to help him with his auto purchase. We wish he left here feeling a little different as we believe we went over and above here but hopefully over time, he reevaluates his experience and feels differently.

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