You got off easy. Get over it, you accepted their price and should have done your research before buying. The more the salesperson sells the car for, the more he makes. Once you give them the money, you are nobody again.
10.27.2003
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> My wife and I purchased a 2003 Alty SE from Bill Ray Nissan in Longwood,
> Florida back in April. Just for the record, we also purchased a 2000
> Mitsubishi Eclipse GT for my wife the same night. After deciding on the
> model, color and options we sat down with the salesman and asked him, and I
> quote,"Do you offer any discount to employees of ****** Corp?"(worldwide
> company with over 85,000 employees). He said, " I'm not sure, let me go
> check" He 'supposedly' went to the Finance Managers office to ask him. When
> he came back he said, "No, sorry". We then proceeded with the paperwork and
> completed the deal, which at the time, we were satisfied with.
>
> Well, two months later one of my wife's co-workers came into the office
> with a new 2003 Altima and saw my wife driving ours (mine) and he mentioned
> the great ****** Corp. discount he got
> through a local Nissan dealer. You know that hot feeling you get across your
> forehead when you start getting pissed? Well, I started to burn when she > called me. >
> After making a call to our dealer acting like someone looking for a new
> Altima and asking about a ****** Corp. discount we found out BILL RAY NISSAN
> DOES, and DID, offer discounts to employees of her company. Now it seems our
> problem was we didn't use the proper terminology when we asked about the
> discount. We used her company name rather than the letters VPP, which is
> the name of the plan her company gets the discount under. I call that pure
> unadulterated DECEIT (ok..LIE)
>
> I spoke with the salesman twice. He never referred my problem to the Sales
> Manager. I left messages explaining my problem for the Sales Manager twice.
> He never returned my calls. After writing the Orlando Sentinel ' Last Resort
> ' column and explaining my story, THEY eventually got the General Manager to
> call me. After explaining the deceit, of either his salesman or Finance
> Manager, or BOTH, he asked what I wanted to " Make it Good ".
> I told him I wanted him to do the right thing...the same thing HE would want
> if HE were deceived (lied to) by a car salesman. He asked for the weekend to
> think it over.
>
> Well. I spoke to him again today and he's (BILL RAY NISSAN, LONGWOOD,
> FLORIDA) not going to do ANYTHING. Even after agreeing we " weren't treated > right ".
>
> SO, BUYER BEWARE at this dealership. They have no qualms with their
> salespeople deceiving their customers (and we're a RETURN customer). I just
> wanna make sure no one here takes the ride I took. It's dealers like this
> that give all dealers a black eye. I'm also going to post this on the
> Infinity and Nissan dealer experience forums.
>
> *I won't even get into the side sills and two hats and shirts they owe me
> and I STILL haven't received.
>
> Thanks for lettin me vent !!
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