Not A Nice Person
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So here's the thing: I got bored. My Toyota RAV-4, which I've had since 2011, is still running great but showing some age and, let's face it, I've had it quite some time now. So I was looking around online and found this at a local AutoNation dealer:

2015 (last year), low miles, $20K, which is right in my comfort zone. I take the plunge, actually hit "Check Availability" on the website, open a convo with the dealership. They tell me it's available, so I ask about financing & get pre-approved with both them & my credit union on financing. But when the dealer gets back to me on my financing approval later that SAME DAY, they tell me "Oops, that one's not available we sold it to a buyer in Georgia" and they try to sell me an ML-350 with more miles on it than my RAV-4 instead.
Which got me thinking. Because if a Georgia AutoNation can buy from an AutoNation HERE, I should be able to buy from an AutoNation ANYWHERE, right? I ask, and they say yes, but you have to sign all the paperwork & commit to buying it first, plus pay shipping. Okay, fine, but I'm gonna LOOK anyway, right?
There's another one available in . . . . . Georgia. It DID have a stock photo up, but when I went back later (after asking the dealer here about it) it had changed to THIS:

Here's the original stock photo Georgia listing but on a non-AutoNation website:

Notice it's still AVAILABLE on the current AutoNation listing? It gets worse. I check the CarFax history on it and find THIS:

It's the SAME GLK! From HERE! And they shipped it off to Georgia WHILE I was still talking to them about it and arranging financing!
The thing is, they told ME interstate sales required a guaranteed buy & signed papers. So WHY is it LISTED FOR SALE on the Georgia AutoNation website? How did Georgia get it with NO BUYER and why did they snatch it out from under me like that?
I just don't get it. I'm a little bit pissed off about it, though.
~Boar

2015 (last year), low miles, $20K, which is right in my comfort zone. I take the plunge, actually hit "Check Availability" on the website, open a convo with the dealership. They tell me it's available, so I ask about financing & get pre-approved with both them & my credit union on financing. But when the dealer gets back to me on my financing approval later that SAME DAY, they tell me "Oops, that one's not available we sold it to a buyer in Georgia" and they try to sell me an ML-350 with more miles on it than my RAV-4 instead.
Which got me thinking. Because if a Georgia AutoNation can buy from an AutoNation HERE, I should be able to buy from an AutoNation ANYWHERE, right? I ask, and they say yes, but you have to sign all the paperwork & commit to buying it first, plus pay shipping. Okay, fine, but I'm gonna LOOK anyway, right?
There's another one available in . . . . . Georgia. It DID have a stock photo up, but when I went back later (after asking the dealer here about it) it had changed to THIS:

Here's the original stock photo Georgia listing but on a non-AutoNation website:

Notice it's still AVAILABLE on the current AutoNation listing? It gets worse. I check the CarFax history on it and find THIS:

It's the SAME GLK! From HERE! And they shipped it off to Georgia WHILE I was still talking to them about it and arranging financing!
The thing is, they told ME interstate sales required a guaranteed buy & signed papers. So WHY is it LISTED FOR SALE on the Georgia AutoNation website? How did Georgia get it with NO BUYER and why did they snatch it out from under me like that?
I just don't get it. I'm a little bit pissed off about it, though.

~Boar
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