WHY DID I CANCEL?
Hi again readers, today is a very angry day for me! I had some issue with the BMW salesperson and had decided to cancel the car. WHY DID I CANCEL? Let's just say the salesman is incompetent and all he cares about is making that sales for his commission. For a marque like BMW, you would expect excellent services to live up to that brand name but all I got was the opposite of that. I will withhold this salesperson name but if you must know who he is please do email me. I will not recommend him to anyone! Firstly I will let you guys know what car I had booked back in March. It was the latest BMW 1-Series 118i. Upon booking the car, we were told to pick our exterior and interior colors. We had picked White exterior color with Red leather interior(just like the one below). 55,800. Expecting to arrive in July 2012. I tried to bargain for some discount on the car but the salesperson insist that the price is an offer price and they usually do not give discount. In my opinion, it is always up to the salesperson to offer the discount.
There is no such thing as "NO DISCOUNT!!!!". I decided not to argue too much with him about the cost as he was very hard-headed. In May this year, I dropped my Porsche for general services and decided to pop into BMW next door. I decided not to be mad or angry as it was only a small matter. I was told the reason for the increase in prices is that they had upgraded all 1-Series wheels in this shipment from 17" to 18" in size. Not a bad things to be angry at. Late last month(June), I went to QAF BMW again to check on the status of the arrival of my 1-SERIES. My salesperson again assured me that it will be arriving early of July. So I mentioned about the price because I need him to prepare finances for the car. Why is the price not covered with insurance? I never bought a car in my life that has no insurance included! Even my Porsche has insurance covered when I bought it new and is from QAF! Have you decided to buy the car? I am not interested in getting that car from you anymore." and that was the last of our final conversation. The conversation was like telling me "Either you buy or fxxk off!
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