Dealership not honoring price

Asked by taylorschwab Sep 24, 2014 at 08:57 PM

Question type: Shopping & Pricing

Shopping for Chevy Silverado 1500 Crewcab.  Found 2 separate dealerships NOT
honoring the price advertised on cargurus.  Both said, "oh it was a mistake, the
manufacturer pulled several rebates from us" and instead offered to sell the car for
thousands more (Strickland Chevrolet in Pearland, Tx) and Demontrond Chevrolet in
Texas City, Tx).  I assume these dealerships pay to advertise on cargurus?  Anyone
else have these complaints?

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Texas Chevy dealerships pulling the "bait and switch"?! Amazing!! amazing that you would expect anything else-

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Clay Cooley Dodge on Irving Texas did the same thing to me they didn't honor the price they wanted 2000 more from the car gurus price plus fees I run as fast as I could....

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Tomes Ford, advertised a F-250 on CarGurus for $30k, when I called salesman asked his manager and the price was good. Text a bit later and said someone else was buying the truck. Then a little while later he texted me and said the deal fell through. He said the $30k was a mistake now wanted $39k.

Have had the same problem with dealerships NOT HONORING INTERNET QUOTES! They all say buyer must “qualify” for discounts even though their internet price is “guaranteed” until a certain date. Car gurus, TrueCar and even Consumer Reports all feed into a marketing LEAD service, period. You give your info and they nag you with NO DEAL! BAIT & SWITCH

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Seen it where price is listed for a ford fusion at 16K but dealer said the price is 17K and the $1000 comes from a trade in...since we were not trading in, the price is not the same. It's BS.

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