Great Lakes Honda
Dealership Sales Review
My current lease on my 2015 Civic was coming to end this month, so I decided to see if I could negotiate a new lease to get myself into last Saturday. Upon arrival at around noonish, I walked in and to my surprise no one really noticed or came up to me. Maybe I haven't been to a dealership in a while.. but I figured that was a common practice to engage anyone walking through the front door. After about 15 minutes I went up to the front desk to the receptionist and told her I was looking to speak with someone regarding a new lease. That's when Jason Hahn came up to me to introduce himself. He brought me back to a sales desk that seems to be shared by many. He broke out my options, of which I wasn't very excited about considering the first lease deal I had gotten. To try to convince me, he offered a test drive of the Civic EX model. I accepted and we took a test drive out in the bad weather we had that day. During the 5 minute trip, I wasn't told much about the car other than some highlights that I found out for myself, such as the side mirror cameras. Once we got back he laid out the pricing again for the EX, which would have doubled my prior payments on my 2015 Civic lease. I asked to just see the LX pricing, which wasn't much better, still significant but not yet double. After some negotiation and my upset that I wasn't being treated fairly for being a returning leasee, I was able to get an okay deal. Once everything was signed with Jason, which took quite awhile, I was introduced with business manager in the office behind. He was excellent and quick to get me out of there after signing whatever he needed me to. After that was done, I packed all the stuff out of my old Civic and set it near Jason's desk area. Jason assured me that they are cleaning the vehicle and would be out soon for me. In between the hour it took for them to bring it around and when he told me that, I was pushed aside by Jason to engage with his new customer. I guess I'm done with his attention at this point. Eventually Jason decided to refocus his attention to me to finally address the matter of me waiting for almost an hour standing around in the dealership. He personally brought the car up front and showed me how to connect my phone then set me off on my way. In my conversation with Jason, I stated I left my second key set at home and he told me to just swing by tomorrow, Sunday, as they'd be open. Upon arrival, locked doors and no staff present within the dealership. I had to drive through another day of awful weather just to be lied to by both the business hours and the salesman. Even another car came up and was confused why the dealership was closed. Overall, I'm not very happy with the process I went through. I spent about 3 hours of my day there, which I don't know if is normal just to get a new lease. As for the dealership itself, the service staff has always been fantastic as well as the manager staff. The sales people need work.
- Recommend this dealer? No
- Purchased a vehicle from this dealer? No