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Finally Bought my 2014 Silverado LTZ Z71...my experience

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'01LS1 Senior Enthusiast

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Sounds like the guys attitude was way out of line & NOT acceptable.

 

Am sorry this happened or worked out the way it did. BUT to play devils advocate (hypothetically) here. If I show up to your house to buy a truck you are selling & am going to give you a partial check & a promise my bank will send you the rest later, would you let me leave with the vehicle? Remember, am not from across the street & live several states away. I would not if I was the seller.

 

Guess the thing to remember with making a deal online is if traveling a long distance to ask what payment type the dealer needs to release the vehicle. When I went down there I was prepped to walk out on the deal if the Finance guy was out of line. Am only 100 miles away though & had a car to leave in. Had no issue what so ever & did not get the sales pitch for all the extra crap dealerships in general want to sell you. The only difference was that I had a cashiers check in hand.

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Sounds like the guys attitude was way out of line & NOT acceptable.

 

Am sorry this happened or worked out the way it did. BUT to play devils advocate (hypothetically) here. If I show up to your house to buy a truck you are selling & am going to give you a partial check & a promise my bank will send you the rest later, would you let me leave with the vehicle? Remember, am not from across the street & live several states away. I would not if I was the seller.

 

Guess the thing to remember with making a deal online is if traveling a long distance to ask what payment type the dealer needs to release the vehicle. When I went down there I was prepped to walk out on the deal if the Finance guy was out of line. Am only 100 miles away though & had a car to leave in. Had no issue what so ever & did not get the sales pitch for all the extra crap dealerships in general want to sell you. The only difference was that I had a cashiers check in hand.

Well, as I mentioned...payment was supposedly worked out before hand...and supposedly was acceptable as to how it would be processed. The salesman stated it would be fine if I just wrote a personal check as one of the acceptable payment methods. So, that in itself should have been fine. However, the Finance guy made an assumption that I did not have that money in the bank. Regardless, it's not for him to say whether I did or did not! And as to compare me selling a truck privately to an individual out of my house as opposed to a big dealership selling a vehicle...is kinda like comparing apples and oranges...both are round...but different scenarios. I'm sure they are well insured against theft...not to mention they are multi-million dollar operation. And not to mention the verification process that we went through on the cashiers check. Anyway, it's all good now!

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I meant no offense what so ever. Just had the exact opposite experience there with those guys. Kept waiting for something to go wrong & it all went great. WITH exception to a deer running into the truck on the drive home about 3 miles south of the house. :banghead:

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