Traded in my car on a used car in March, 2026. - GonetotheDogs
Traded in my car on a used car in March, 2026. Only now can I handle speaking about it. If buying a used car could be a traumatic experience (which I think it could), purchasing this car from Go Auto Outlet South was. I feel as a mature woman, purchasing my car alone, I was preyed upon by every, single (male) person that I encountered in this dealership.
And that was MANY because every time I turned around, a new guy was coming over.
It took FOUR visits to the Leduc dealership (from my home in Sherwood Park) - 4 hours each on Saturday and Sunday; 3 hours in the afternoon a couple of days later and 2 hours (of SHEER xxxx!!) on the night I picked up my 'new' car. Everything else had been bad enough - and I mean BAD!! - but the evening I picked up the car I had a full-blown anxiety/panic attack - sat in my vehicle outside the dealership flushed and dripping in sweat, crying, shaking, bp thumping in my ears, and was physically ill for two weeks after.
Way too much misery and detail to get into here about everything that was WRONG, terrible, unethical and discriminatory about the way this dealership treated me and how they conduct their business. As if purchasing a vehicle (especially a used one) isn't stressful enough, these guys (aside from reception staff in my 4 days/13 day and evening hours there, I only saw male sales staff) employ every nasty sales strategy in the book to wear you down, exhaust and confuse you, to get max $$ from you (through purchase price and financing terms).
They fire multiple sales staff at you - I 'worked with' at least SIX sales staff over my 4 trips there. No consistency, no sense of feeling 'looked after' by one sales person - nobody sharing information - paperwork and things we had agreed on kept disappearing, necessitating starting all over with another sales guy. Clearly intended to confuse the solo, older woman.
The review of the Bill of Sale and finance contract was done at the end of 4 hours on the 2nd day, at closing time on Sunday (after EIGHT hours over the weekend), by which time I could ONLY think of getting out of the place - anxiety off the charts, hungry, thirsty, hot and completely exhausted. I signed away, including purchasing a $1,500 "protection package" for which COUNTLESS requests (over the phone and over the next two trips there) for an invoice/receipt/proof of application (of rust protection) were denied. NEVER did receive proof of application of this 'protection package' - just 'take our word for it - it's there!' Right.
The first sales guy, Muhammad, lied to me about there being two key fobs. He noted and signed re this on the 'first contract' I worked on with him - but that contract disappeared, so so did the signed note about the fob and all the pricing/financing we had agreed to ... just gone.
They also insist on getting the registration for the car - first time I've encountered that. Have always got my own registration and when I said I wanted to get it myself, Justin said 'no, we don't allow that'. This resulted in a change in the pick-up time (I had already booked a half-day off work - had to change that). Then, on the cold, snowy night I went to pick up the car from Justin, at the CORRECT time (I have ZERO doubt that I had noted the correct time because of the change), Justin wasn't there. Yet another sales guy comes over, tells me I'm late, Justin has left and I'm 'lucky there is still some staff there - we're technically closed!' REALLY?! Couldn't believe it. We then argued about the missing fob (which I found out about then) - it was a real scene (I couldn't take anymore; he was AWFUL to me). I was "promised" the 2nd fob in 3 weeks ... Think I got it? No.
Conclusions:
1) DO NOT BUY A VEHICLE FROM GO AUTO!!
2) DO NOT BUY A VEHICLE FROM THIS DEALERSHIP OR THESE PEOPLE!!
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