RUN - DON'T WALK TO ANOTHER VOLVO DEALER! - LCB
RUN - DON'T WALK TO ANOTHER VOLVO DEALER! Apologies in advance for the lengthiness butI feel compelled to inform and warn everyone about this business. Last year, I found an XC40 online that I was interested in. I am a schoolteacher in MA and thought it seemed like a good deal. Boy was I ever wrong! I drove down to CT and decided to go ahead with the purchase of my XC40 on a Friday. At that time, Volvo had an Affinity promotion whereby teachers get 500 off purchase. The way it works is you give your email to the dealership and they submit it to Volvo and then you get a pin number which they apply at time of signing papers. All of this is supposed to happen BEFORE the signing of papers (Remember that it's important later!) So I gave the bumbling sales guy "Dirty and Fast Mike Pendergast" my email address. Turns out he copied it wrong and Volvo never got it. Keep in mind this is a Friday afternoon now and no pin coming from Volvo. I ask him repeatedly are you SURE you got the email right? He tells me yes. Now it"s getting late and still no pin coming. And they know I am not buying this car without the 500 discount I'm entitled to. So fearing the loss of the sale (they don't want me leaving and driving back to MA without doing this deal!) finally Mike P and the shady sales manager Josh Figueroa assure me that I do not need to have the pin right now. It's okay. We can go ahead with the paperwork and I can submit it later to receive my discount and they'll cut me a check soon. Okay, great. I believed them and took them at their word. BIG MISTAKE!!! Turns out that Volvo would not reimburse me because the proper procedures were not followed. Either they were negligent or intentionally deceitful (I believe latter to be true). So... despite having a document with my purchasing paperwork stating "WE OWE YOU $500 when Volvo teacher pin is obtained" they never ponied up the $500. I spoke with Mark Mitchell himself who listened sympathetically to my story and said "Well if you're owed five hundred dollars then you're owed five hundred dollars!" After a few weeks went by without receiving my check I texted him and got back this response: "I was told that because you didn't have the necessary documentation at the time of sale they declined the claim." Wow. Seriously??? This is the owner of the dealership who has the ability to make things right and that's his response? Five hundred dollars is not worth covering for his inept employees and honoring the integrity and good name of his business?!? Now I will go through the process of filing complaints with the CT AG, BBB, etc. because I truly believe that what Mitchel Volvo did was illegal and unethical. Oh and one last thing that speaks to their business character: they even stated that the add-on $1500 for "Simonizing" is because they need this extra money because they can't keep up with the "big dealers" of Hartford. So it's a hidden cost embedded in the final sales price of every car you buy from them. Shady and sketch. That's another thing I am going to bring to corporate Volvo's attention. Bottom line: avoid this place like the plague!!!I
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