Go easy on the kid, I'm sure he bought all of them with his own money that he makes whereever he works.

 

Bill Heard?

HA.....yeah.

I was looking at buying my Vette from them when I was looking for it. For no other reason than they were local.

So .. I call them up .. one of their 'Corvette managers' calls me back .. and after we banter back and forth about the price .. he tells me he doesn't have one .. but can get one from Ohio .. so I say go for it .. then he comes back with "Ok, we need a deposit yada yada yada" .. which, no big deal right? He wants a grand, no problem. I made the stipulation that it's fully refundable if something goes screwy in the deal (GM was in the process of buying my SS back, I didn't want to be stuck with two cars in the off shot that something got screwed up in the process), he said alright and proceeded to start to get the car.

He calls me back and starts to do the paperwork information and crap.. and then starts telling me that the car is different than what I wanted, it was going to cost more than we agreed upon because "his manager wasnt going to let a vette go for that!" .. and that the deposit was now only refundable if I passed the credit check, otherwise I was going to forfeit it. I told him to stuff it after lying to me about it, attempting to jack up the price, and what not.

HE WOULDNT REFUND MY DEPOSIT! I was pissed. He then would not return any of my phone calls. So I threatened to charge back the deposit (it was on CC) .. at which point I was told I bought a car. I'm like...ha, I didn't sign anything, you don't even know who I am aside from a bunch of numbers. In the end, they decided it was wiser to credit my card back rather than have me dispute it.

Obviously, the credit check passed .. because .. well, look at my sig. I wound up driving to Atlanta to get the car I wanted at the price I wanted .. it cost me an extra $200, but I wound up saving a ****load and didn't have to deal with all the aggravation that they were going to put me through.

Chris

 

Oh I've got a story about this crap house. My step father brings his truck in for service. Actually a friend had to drive him down there in the truck because he was on some serious medication from a work related injury. He wasn't able to drive because he was so medicated. A salesman gets ahold of him while he is waiting for the work to be completed, brings him into an office while the sales manager hammers him to buy a new truck. After several hours they get him to sign on the dotted line, pending wife's approval. With him being basically drunk from the medication and Mom a whole lot wiser, the deal wasn't going to fly. The dealer refused to back out of the deal until the Newspaper and the family attorney got involved. These clowns don't have a clue about how to treat a people.

 

I certainly hope the "credit card story" has been logged with the BBB.

I will in no way shape or form deal with Bill Teard Chevy period.

 

This is second hand info also.

A couple of days after my friend bought a car from them the salesman called him and said that an error had been made in their deal and if he did not come down with more cash then his payments would be higher than they agreed upon. He went down there and it wasn't like they transposed two numbers, four of the five digits in the price of the car were different. He ended up giving them the car back and taking his old car back.

 

Is that even legal for them to do after the finance contract has been signed?? Do you know how much the diff was??

 

Contract Killings arent cheap!

 

nice

 

Thanks for the heads up. I live over here in the Tampa area and I've heard a few horror stories about Bill Heard but I aprreciate the info. Thanks

 

Yep, because a lot of the time the final financing is done after the fact. So when you buy a new or used car, you do sign in there that it is pending final approval by the bank. Sometimes it takes them a couple days to get it all done. It's called spot financing. They basically prequalify you for a specific interest rate and financing based upon the info you supply them. This can also happen when people buy cars on weekends or at tent sales. It happens quite frequently where people have to bring the car back or have to pay more because they didn't get the same financing that the dealer thought that they would. It could be in some cases, but this does NOT mean the dealer was trying to screw them in general. This happens in more cases where the person has little, questionable, no or bad credit or also in the fact that their income can not be verified or is low.

Yeah, I will not shop at Bill heard from the info I have seen before and all the negative publicity. I know a couple people they tried to screw before...

Just some info.....