Unprofessional Car Salesmen in Dublin

sweetie

Have been looking at a few cars recently and test drove in a few places also. I was a cash buyer and have since put a deposit on a car. One dealer gave me a price and when I rang back the next day to check some details and probably aaccept the offer he suddenly had made a mistake and undervalued the car by 2k. Needless to say I thanked him and left it as I had another dealer who had quoted me 1k less than that. I rang the other dealer after and he needed to check availability (on tuesday morn) and still haven't heard from him and last night the original guy calls me at 7pm and when I told him I had put a deposit down with a dealer down the country (thanks to ROR for helping me) he wouldn't believe the price I got it at and I basically had to hang up on him he was bugging me so much. Two other dealers I called in wexford and donegal to make offers came back to me within a couple of ours with quite competetive counter offers which I ended up not taking but are cars in Dublin selling in such numbers that some of these guys can be so unprofessional?

bazz26

Shop around outside the Pale. If enough Dubs did it they might have a rethink of the attitude...:pac:

To be fair though you will get bad or unprofessional attitudes from sales people up and down the country. It's still resides in some corners from the Celtic Tiger days of when they were simply order takers.

Gophur

If the likes of these guys, who are used to getting people to pay more for "D" plates, suddenly encounter intelligent buyers, they will be found wanting.

Zubeneschamali

sweetie wrote: »

are cars in Dublin selling in such numbers that some of these guys can be so unprofessional?

No, but there have always been unprofessional guys working in car sales. I don't understand why, but it's a fact. Can't keep appointments, can't return phone calls, don't know their own pricelist never mind anything about the cars themselves...

Owen

There are unprofessionals in every trade, from car salesmen, to plumbers, builders, teachers, doctors and politicians. Nothing to see here, move along, deal with someone who treats you with respect.

sweetie

PaintDoctor wrote: »

There are unprofessionals in every trade, from car salesmen, to plumbers, builders, teachers, doctors and politicians. Nothing to see here, move along, deal with someone who treats you with respect.

I agree but just a bit shocked that in this day and age that attitudes still haven't changed for the better!

Owen

It'll never change unfortunately. Every country, every trade has unprofessional people. If you're spending a lot of money on a car, you should do it in a place which gives you good value, but also values you as a customer too.

bazz26

PaintDoctor wrote: »

There are unprofessionals in every trade, from car salesmen, to plumbers, builders, teachers, doctors and politicians. Nothing to see here, move along, deal with someone who treats you with respect.

+1

Try and get a builder out to price a job for you. Even in these times when the contruction industry is on it's knees they are still not returning calls, not showing up when they said they would or you have to chase them to finish the job they started.