Bloody car dealers!

[grasmere59]

(approx 60 miles)

Tis amazing what you can get from one link.. I'm guessing you have or had a nice Elddis Caravan?

Sorry, bored.

How very dare you, snooping around like that

Anyway, what's the deal with the boarded-up house at the end of the road? looks a big place, care home/guest house maybe?

That was the old doctors surgery which has now been converted back to a private house,blessing really because when it was the Doctors the cul de sac was chocker with parked cars from people visiting the surgery.

[grasmere59]

I'm on holiday this week and my O/H is in the market for another car namely a Freelander 2,we saw this one this morning http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p, so I ring the dealer at 10.30am and ask if it still available,just let me check he says and comes back and says yes it's still available and did we want to make an appointment to look at it,we arranged to see it at 12.30 so we jump in the pug and off we go (approx 60 miles),we just turn into the trading estate where the dealer is and my mob goes,she answers and the dealer says "sorry but the car has just sold" ,she hangs up the phone very upset so I ring them back and ask what the hells going on as we have just travelled 60 miles to see it and we had an appointment,"sorry sir someone has just put down a deposit on it",so I ask who's going to pay for my wasted time and fuel for the 120 mile round trip seeing as you gave me the 12.30 slot to look at it,"sorry we can't do anything about that".I wanted to go into the showroom and throttle someone but she held me back, so we just turned round and went home.Dealers are all a bunch of shysters !

Why get upset over a large hunk of expensive metal you don't own. And besides, it's not as if they are some kind of rarity.
A significant chunk of a dealer's life, or indeed anyone who has sold a car or two... is people who phone up, absolutely hot for it..
"I'll be there... gettin' in the car right now..", and that's the last you hear from them.

Cash is king for second-hand motors.

What annoyed me was that after HE had made the appointment time with us I said we were on our way and put the phone down,then 5 mins before the appointment time he told us it was sold,couldn't he have said to the other buyer "can you wait 10 mins"? fair play if we were 30mins late then I can't blame him as he has a business to run but as customer service rates the dealer is shite,it's a main dealer to not some backstreet fly by night outfit.

[Welly]

That was the old doctors surgery which has now been converted back to a private house,blessing really because when it was the Doctors the cul de sac was chocker with parked cars from people visiting the surgery.

Gees, I bet you're glad that's gone. Bit like living near a school