Thought Id post this here just to share my Nissan dealer experiences..
TL;DR why are all Florida Nissan dealers apparently dicks lol
Full version:
If anyones seen my build thread, you know I totaled my old Honda before buying my Fronty. I waited until I had the insurance check in the bank before shopping around for my truck - so I had cash in hand, intending to pay in full once I found what I wanted.
I started at one local dealer (Jenkins) just to test drive. They had a bunch of Desert Runners, but nothing 4wd. I mentioned to the salesman I was looking for a 4x4, so he knew that from the outset. After the test drive, the guy pressured me inside because it would earn him points with his boss if I would sit and let him work up some pricing paperwork. Ok whatever, I wasnt in a hurry. So what that comes down to is the dude did this whole dog and pony show, writing numbers on the paper starting at 30k what would it take to get you to drive out of here in that truck tonight, all the while writing lower and lower numbers lol. He got down to 23k before I said well thats in the ballpark but I really want to look at a 4wd. Finally excused myself and booked it out of there..
Next day I went to another dealer nearby (Hill), and test drove an SV 4x4 with VTP. This salesman was just a good ol boy, let me take it off road in an orange grove to try out the 4wd and everything. Really would have liked to bought it from him - but asking about the price, they wouldnt go lower than 31k(!).
Started shopping online, and found several different dealers that had what I was looking for, an SV 4x4 with NO vtp, but with the towing package. Drove up to the nearest one, about an hour away, to look at it. Super nice kid working there, his 3rd week on the job. He was (over)eager, but all around did a good job on what turned out to be a sale.
The truck had been on the lot for 6 month according to cargurus, so I knew that coming in. We went out to see it in the lot, and it wouldnt start lol. Tried jumping off, no luck. Assumed the battery was bad, so ok that just means Ive got one more thing to bargain with. We go inside, and the kid tries to run my credit. I told him hey you dont need all that info, just let me talk to the sales manager on price. So he goes and gets the guy. I asked him, whats the best price you can do. He vanishes, comes back with a sheet of paper with his best price on it. I looked at it and laughed.. and pulled out my printout of their online price that was nearly $1000 less than what he quoted hahahaha. I pointed this out to him, he got all flustered and disappeared again, coming back with another price that was magically like $400 less than the Internet price, $25,300. Ok, have a nice day, and I walk out.
I spent the next day calling 3 other nearby dealers who had what I wanted. The first had 3 of them, and wouldnt go lower than $29k. The next, same story. The last one (2 hours away) literally told me well if youve really got a dealer willing to take $1000 less than us, then save your gas and go buy it from them.
So I did
I seriously considered driving up to the other guys dealer just to show him, after the save your gas BS. But not for 4 hours round trip haha.
The kicker, turned out that it wasnt a bad battery-they had lost the original keys for my truck and had to make some new ones. Then, their 3rd party locksmith contractor was supposed to get me the missing key fobs-which took 2 weeks and multiple calls to him AND the dealership after he stopped returning my calls. The dealership finally got them from him and overnighted them to me.
So, again, I have no idea what it is but out of 6 Nissan dealers I tried to buy my truck from, only one (Hill) seemed to have their act together. The rest were super ghetto about everything and either trying to rip me off or blow me off.. then the key thing as icing on the cake. I wish Hill would have come down on price, because I would rather have dealt with them but theirs had the VTP so I guess that factored in to it.
My parents bought 2 Fords in the past year, and the Ford dealers were far more professional and easy to deal with. Whats with the FL Nissan dealers??
TL;DR why are all Florida Nissan dealers apparently dicks lol
Full version:
If anyones seen my build thread, you know I totaled my old Honda before buying my Fronty. I waited until I had the insurance check in the bank before shopping around for my truck - so I had cash in hand, intending to pay in full once I found what I wanted.
I started at one local dealer (Jenkins) just to test drive. They had a bunch of Desert Runners, but nothing 4wd. I mentioned to the salesman I was looking for a 4x4, so he knew that from the outset. After the test drive, the guy pressured me inside because it would earn him points with his boss if I would sit and let him work up some pricing paperwork. Ok whatever, I wasnt in a hurry. So what that comes down to is the dude did this whole dog and pony show, writing numbers on the paper starting at 30k what would it take to get you to drive out of here in that truck tonight, all the while writing lower and lower numbers lol. He got down to 23k before I said well thats in the ballpark but I really want to look at a 4wd. Finally excused myself and booked it out of there..
Next day I went to another dealer nearby (Hill), and test drove an SV 4x4 with VTP. This salesman was just a good ol boy, let me take it off road in an orange grove to try out the 4wd and everything. Really would have liked to bought it from him - but asking about the price, they wouldnt go lower than 31k(!).
Started shopping online, and found several different dealers that had what I was looking for, an SV 4x4 with NO vtp, but with the towing package. Drove up to the nearest one, about an hour away, to look at it. Super nice kid working there, his 3rd week on the job. He was (over)eager, but all around did a good job on what turned out to be a sale.
The truck had been on the lot for 6 month according to cargurus, so I knew that coming in. We went out to see it in the lot, and it wouldnt start lol. Tried jumping off, no luck. Assumed the battery was bad, so ok that just means Ive got one more thing to bargain with. We go inside, and the kid tries to run my credit. I told him hey you dont need all that info, just let me talk to the sales manager on price. So he goes and gets the guy. I asked him, whats the best price you can do. He vanishes, comes back with a sheet of paper with his best price on it. I looked at it and laughed.. and pulled out my printout of their online price that was nearly $1000 less than what he quoted hahahaha. I pointed this out to him, he got all flustered and disappeared again, coming back with another price that was magically like $400 less than the Internet price, $25,300. Ok, have a nice day, and I walk out.
I spent the next day calling 3 other nearby dealers who had what I wanted. The first had 3 of them, and wouldnt go lower than $29k. The next, same story. The last one (2 hours away) literally told me well if youve really got a dealer willing to take $1000 less than us, then save your gas and go buy it from them.
So I did
I seriously considered driving up to the other guys dealer just to show him, after the save your gas BS. But not for 4 hours round trip haha.
The kicker, turned out that it wasnt a bad battery-they had lost the original keys for my truck and had to make some new ones. Then, their 3rd party locksmith contractor was supposed to get me the missing key fobs-which took 2 weeks and multiple calls to him AND the dealership after he stopped returning my calls. The dealership finally got them from him and overnighted them to me.
So, again, I have no idea what it is but out of 6 Nissan dealers I tried to buy my truck from, only one (Hill) seemed to have their act together. The rest were super ghetto about everything and either trying to rip me off or blow me off.. then the key thing as icing on the cake. I wish Hill would have come down on price, because I would rather have dealt with them but theirs had the VTP so I guess that factored in to it.
My parents bought 2 Fords in the past year, and the Ford dealers were far more professional and easy to deal with. Whats with the FL Nissan dealers??