RE: Is the dealer misleading me?

[Peter Henriksen <peterhe@microsoft.com>]

They probably cashed your check already, right? Just in case they
didn't, simply stop payment on it. It'll cost you a bit, but I would do
it. I wouldn't give my business to that dealer if I could at all avoid
it.

Did you sign any other papers?
- peter, peterhe@microsoft.com, issaquah, wa, usa
  91 200qw
  94 acura legend gs
  80 mazda 626


>-----Original Message-----
>From:	ahmed@morgan.com [SMTP:ahmed@morgan.com]
>Sent:	Monday, November 04, 1996 6:56 PM
>To:	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject:	Is the dealer misleading me?
>
>
>I have a feeling my dealer has been misleading me and I would appreciate any
>insights 
>or suggested courses of action.  
>
>I was looking for a '97 A4Q in Europa Blue with a specific set of options.  I
>could
>not find a dealer who had the car until I called Audi in Princeton, NJ (this
>also
>happens to be my local dealer).  The dealer claimed she had the exact car
>coming in
>within three weeks.  I was quite happy, negotiated a price, and went in the
>next
>day to put down a deposit.  After I had signed the deposit check, she told me
>that
>she did not yet have the serial number for the car and that she expected it
>that same 
>week -- she would call me with the serial number as soon as she had it.
>
>A week went by.  No news.  I call her and she says she does not yet have the
>serial
>number, that the car is still in Germany.  She claims it is in "G" status and
>is
>waiting to be put on the ship.  As soon as it is released for the ship, she
>will have
>the serial number for me.
>
>Another week goes by.  I call again and get the same story.
>
>Yet another week goes by -- we are now at more than three weeks.  I called
>her today
>and hear a different story.  She now claims that the car is in "D" status,
>and has not
>left the assembly line yet.  She also claims that the car will not be here
>before 
>another month and denies that she ever mentioned "G" status to me or that she
>had said
>the car would be here within three weeks of my ordering it.
>
>It is beginning to seem to me that they actually ordered the car while
>pretending
>that they already had it.  In retrospect, it was highly unusual that they
>should
>have the "exact" car I wanted with all the precise options that I wanted when
>no
>other dealer seemed to have it.  If this is true, then it is very
>disappointing
>because I could have ordered the car through other dealers who were more
>honest
>and would offer me a better deal.
>
>It is a fact that the dealer has lied to me.  The question is how much they
>are lying.
>Is there any way for me to find out?  Is there anything that can be done?
>Have other
>people been in similar situations?  Has anyone else done business with the
>Audi
>dealer in Princeton (they are a relatively new dealer)?
>
>-- Shakil
>
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>Dr. Shakil Ahmed                          
>Process Driven Trading, Morgan Stanley & Co.
>ahmed@ms.com
>http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/ahmed-shakil.html
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