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blue660r01 08-09-2011 01:57 PM
Man won ebay auction at 55.1K for GT-R, Honda of San Marcos wont honor deal
 
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Won ebay auction at 55.1K for GT-R, Honda of San Marcos - MY350Z.COM Forums

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I won eBay auction item number 220823902975. I spent hours to watch this auction and won it at $55,100 sunday afternoon. As soon as I won I sent a email asking how would I make the deposit for the car. Monday Morning I called since I did not get a response. I talked with a Chelsea who took my call at 10am today (8/8/2011) I ask to speak with their internet sales person which is Randy. She tried to get me to Randy and finally said that he is there but refusing to take my call. I left a message with her to let him know that I am the winner of the auction and want to make the deposit and arrange pickup date. A hour later another guy called me said they are not going to sell me the car as Randy made a mistake and is out of town when earlier I was advised he was refusing my call and he is there. I advised I was unhappy that they are not going to honor the price and asked to speak to someone higher. He directed me to Ian at 512-392-1313. I called Ian and he said that they are not going to sell me the car for the price I won it at and if I want the car I will have to pay the price their asking of $59k.

I feel as what this dealership is a violation of Consumer Protection laws.

So far I have reported this to BBB, Federal Trade Commission, Texas department of motors, Texas's attorney's office.

MC 08-09-2011 02:07 PM
ya there is a big thread on it on NAGTROC.. he posted there too

ClemsonWill 08-09-2011 02:15 PM
This story has gone crazy. It's posted on just about every nissan forum. People have killed the dealerships rating at a number of big sites like Yahoo. I bet the dealership now wishes they would have just sold the car and taken the hit. The horrible publicity has to be costing them more than $4k.

90 ST 08-09-2011 02:15 PM
^^^X2!
Really for the 4k you think they would and save all the trouble.

phelan 08-09-2011 02:20 PM
It's okay...it's just a Honda dealer ;)

MC 08-09-2011 02:41 PM
on jalopnik

Dealer refuses to honor Nissan GT-R eBay auction

Jjaden 08-09-2011 02:46 PM
Bored at work and read the entire 25 page thread.

First 12 pages are full of Epic win!

tjlazer 08-09-2011 04:59 PM
damn, sleezy car dealers not honoring the auction for a measly 3900. Unbelievable. They just want to squeeze every red cent out of ya. I hope they pay the price

theDreamer 08-09-2011 05:03 PM
Been watching this since yesterday on my350z, sucks for that dealership.
All the lost business over 4,000 dollars.

blue660r01 08-09-2011 06:33 PM
Word on the street is when Motortrend contacted them they caved and are now going to give the car for the price he won it for.

Xan 08-09-2011 06:35 PM
UPDATE: GT-R for $55,100? Dealer Says it Will Honor eBay Auction - WOT on Motor Trend

ClemsonWill 08-09-2011 07:00 PM
:tup:

Boost_lee 08-09-2011 11:01 PM
This dealership is about 45 minutes from me. Even though they honored the price, I'll flip em the bird when I drive by this weekend :D

Jjaden 08-10-2011 09:09 AM
The fact this thread has hit 50 pages on my350z in 3 days, with all of people interested in the outcome, and helping out the OP is incredible.

I'd like to think we could do the same for a member on here.

christian370z 08-10-2011 09:43 AM
I think we would definitely help out a fellow the370z member if they were confronted with this type of situation. This is just another case of a dealership thinking that putting a sought after car on ebay will start a bidding frenzy and are shocked when it doesn't work out that way, they also tend to underestimate how quickly bad press spreads on the internet.

Glad to see a positive outcome for the now GTR owner!

shadoquad 08-10-2011 09:58 AM
Two words for that sleazy dealer: RESERVE PRICE

How stupid does one have to be to not list a reserve price? It's one of the most basic concepts of an auction. It says, "minimally, I'll accept X dollars for my item." All they had to do was list a reserve price, and then decide at the end of the auction whether they'd accept a low-ball offer or move on. It's not like auctions are a novel concept or anything.

I'm glad they caved to the pressure, but they should have just given dude the car from the word go.

And if this happened to a member of this forum, we'd react the same. We'd light up the dealership and every auto mag in town.

tjlazer 08-10-2011 12:45 PM
Well being as they only have 1 feedback they were apparently new to ebay and had no idea what they were doing, and thought they can refuse to sell the car if they sold it local for a better price. Scumbag dealers.

shadoquad 08-10-2011 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by tjlazer (Post 1254672)
Well being as they only have 1 feedback they were apparently new to ebay and had no idea what they were doing, and thought they can refuse to sell the car if they sold it local for a better price. Scumbag dealers.
Yeah, but car dealers go to auction all the time. Where do you think used cars go if they don't sell? The concept of going to auction and setting a reserve price should not be new to them.

TreeSemdyZee 08-10-2011 06:01 PM
Similar thing happened a couple of years ago on a BMW M5 a guy won.

I won't say the dealer "honored" the price. Like in this case he finally caved.

If I remember correctly, the dealer took a HUGE hit on that one. Somewhere between 10 and 20K I think.

I think a lot of times, dealers put younger guys who are "web savvy" in charge of their internet sales who aren't auction and sales savvy.

shadoquad 08-10-2011 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by TreeSemdyZee (Post 1255370)
Similar thing happened a couple of years ago on a BMW M5 a guy won.

I won't say the dealer "honored" the price. Like in this case he finally caved.

If I remember correctly, the dealer took a HUGE hit on that one. Somewhere between 10 and 20K I think.

I think a lot of times, dealers put younger guys who are "web savvy" in charge of their internet sales who aren't auction and sales savvy.
Unfortunately, though, it could very well be bait-and-switch tactics. Car dealers are not above using those. Twice I've had salesman advertise a price that, after a little talking, was a "mistake", when the true price of the vehicle is a couple thousand more. We could blame human error or underhanded practices, but the end result was that someone came to look at the vehicle.

jordan3720 08-11-2011 10:12 PM
It's quite unfortunate that people will lose their jobs over this, and legal action may come about; all for a minuscule fraction of a percent of the dealership's monthly numbers. Sometimes makes me wonder how General Managers can be paid so much and then make decisions like this.

JACKPAC 08-11-2011 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by TreeSemdyZee (Post 1255370)
Similar thing happened a couple of years ago on a BMW M5 a guy won.

I won't say the dealer "honored" the price. Like in this case he finally caved.

If I remember correctly, the dealer took a HUGE hit on that one. Somewhere between 10 and 20K I think.

I think a lot of times, dealers put younger guys who are "web savvy" in charge of their internet sales who aren't auction and sales savvy.
I remember this happening when the new M3's came out. Dealer wanted like 10K over MSRP, and the guy won it for 10-20K under.

The same thing happened. Internet uproar... BBB... ebay gets pissed.... Dealer finally has to sell the car for that price plus they lose a lot of future business in the process.


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