Went to this dealership in September of 2007, was helping a friend, a single mother, who wanted to buy a new Corolla. As soon as we were introduced to our salesman, the first words he spouted were, "What can I do to get you in a car today?" What do these salesmen think when they use lines like this? So, I told the salesman, "Sell us the car we want for half price." Man, did I get a dirty look, and I knew where I stood with the salesman. I guess he never expected someone to take him seriously. Let me tell you about this dealership. They are so predatory towards women, if not to all potential customers. Seems that Power Toyota Salesmen try to use a strategy known as DIVIDE AND CONQUER. If you go there, the salesmen will try to separate the potential vehicle purchaser from the rest of the party, just to try to force a deal to happen. It gets even better. My associate and I went out to the car lot, to look at the inventory of new Corollas. A 2nd salesman was called out to the car lot, came out, and was showing me their inventory of new Corollas. Then the original salesman tried to show my associate used cars. SM #1 tried to make a deal with her on a used car, while I was occupied with SM #2. As I was surveying their inventory of new Corollas with SM #2, Mr. "What can I do" was trying to sell my associate a used 2006 Corolla, base model, with roll up windows, that had 15,000 miles on it for way too much money. Then, SM #1 tried to sell her other used cars that she had no interest in purchasing. It seems that many car salesmen think they can pressure potential customers into buying whatever they want to sell. Doesn't work all the time. My associate finally let SM #1 have it, and told him again, that she was only interested in a new Corolla, and nothing else. She told SM #1 very directly, that if he was not going to help her with purchasing what she wanted, she would go elsewhere. Finally, SM #1 realized he wasn't messing with an pushover, and we found the car we wanted. It gets better, read on. We had the Consumer Reports pricing with us, and we put in an offer. Since 2007 was the last year of this model Corolla, we figured that they would be willing to work with us. Yeah, they dropped the price down, not as much as we wanted but it was a good deal. The only issue was the financing. My associate applied for financing with Toyota at the dealership after we found her the right car. She had good credit and a good job. Financing should be no problem. Her FICO score was just above 650 - So, what's the problem? Power Toyota Finance was the problem. The salesman walked up to us, and let us know the monthly payments would be - after she was approved, and it was outrageous: $427 per month for a 5 year loan - for a total payout of $25,620 - This is for a $17,500 car? And that was with $2,000 trade-in. The Salesman acted like he was doing us a favor. Obviously, Power Toyota felt they needed to make up for the negotiated price reduction and increase the profit on the car by increasing the interest rate. It gets even better ----- We asked Mr. "What can I do" what interest rate the loan was, he told us it was about 10%. There was no way this was even close to 10%. I walked up to the finance people, and demanded to know the correct interest rate, or else we were walking. I told them that the salesman was lying through his teeth. Finally, I was told by 1 of the finance reps, who was rolling his eyes at me, that the actual interest rate was 17%! How dare we find out what the correct interest rate is, THE NERVE!!! As we walked out of the dealership, I told the salesman #1, that we don't like being lied to, AND - I told him that what he did, made sure that we wouldn't buy a car from him today - or ever. My associate got a much better loan rate at another Toyota dealership that same day, under 8%, and bought her new Corolla elsewhere. I realize Toyota is a good car, and I realize that de
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Jun 17, 2008
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