Camelback Toyota
Dealership Sales Review
I went to Camelback Toyota looking for a RAV4 or similar vehicle. The salesman asked what I was looking for and I told him, emphasizing that reliability and fuel economy were important. Being out of RAV4s in my price range, he steered me toward a Jeep Liberty, completely ignoring the fact that it is problem prone and horrible on gas. On and on we went to very unsuitable vehicles. Thank God I had researched many of them before hand. Finally, days later, they got a RAV4 and called me. I test drove it, asked for a Carfax and got a similar report from dealer.com showing a clean history. It looked incomplete to me so I insisted on a real Carfax and that revealed an accident in this car's history. The asking price was well over blue book (even without any bad history) and I gave a lower offer based on the accident history and a more rational consideration of the value of the vehicle. Yep, now it's manager time. The manager easily lopped of 1/3 of the difference in our prices but thereafter became somewhat hostile, showing me what he claimed to have paid for the car on trade-in and the service done to it. I also know the approximate trade-in value for this particular car and he either lied about the figure or paid WAY too much for it. Needless to say, it's about that time that I just walked out.
- Recommend this dealer? No
- Purchased a vehicle from this dealer? No