DO NOT COME TO TEXAS NISSAN OF GRAPEVINE DEALERSHIP, read my story to find out why...

Originally Posted by vipor

In Texas, you can record a 2-party conversation without the other person being aware. A verbal agreement can also be binding. Good state to do business in heh.


When I was still shopping around for my Z back in June or July trying to pick a color and trim and test drive one I stopped by this dealership. I was already preapproved for a loan and we pulled up in my GF's G35 Coupe. When we get there I saw probably 5 barely 20y/o salesman standing outside smoking and talking. This was the warning that I didn't head unfortunately. One of the salesmen starts talking to me and I asked to go look at a Z and told him I want to sit in one at least. He shows us the row of about 5 Zs on the side of the building and then after I remind him, he goes in and gets the keys to one for me to sit in. I ask about a test drive and I am then told "We don't do test drives unless you're pretty much ready to buy." WTF is this crap?! Stupid I say eff it and ask to talk numbers so I can figure out some pricing and financing options in regard to what my monthly will be. Well this kid ends up not knowing ANYTHING about the car or financing and goes and gets his Manager. This guy comes in and just reminds me of Bernie Mac... Loud, pushy, better and smarter than me in his eyes, etc. I ask about leasing options and he says that I can lease the "Top-of-the-line model, you know, the 29k one" for about 600$/mo or something. I ask him to work up some financing numbers based off of down payment and 60mo/70mo so I know what I'm going to be looking at. He flat out REFUSES to try on that too. Just like the kid told me, he says that he doesn't want to mess with even rough financing numbers until I'm ready to buy. Also, as soon as the salesman sets me up with the manager, he takes off to start helping someone else. When the manager left, we were alone in an office for about 30 mins.

Basically these guys just came across as though they thought I owed it to them to buy the car. They did as little work as possible, lied to me about test drives and financing estimates, and just inconvenienced me and my GF for a couple hours.



Afterwards I went to Grubbs Nissan in Bedford and the guy I was dealing with set me up in a PW T/S/N 6MT for a test drive (decided on white once I finally saw this car) and got his financing guy to put together some estimates on financing based off of a couple different APRs and down payments. I later found out that they stayed an hour late helping me too.

I wanted to buy my car from Grubbs, but they couldn't find the Nismo for me so I went with another dealer that I was very happy with.