Tango_Kilo
Veteran Member
I've been trying to buy a PD for a few weeks now. I've been looking from PA to SC and everywhere in between. Everytime I find a dealer offering a manual GLS Wagon in spice red, the online listing proves to be wrong or the car ends up lacking a required option once I've contacted the dealer. Each time the dealer comes back with ... but I can find the exact car you're looking for in a) a few days b) at another dealer or c) a week or so. I just need a $500 deposit from you to find the car.
To me this reeks of a scam, especially since I've been searching all over and no one has one. I would expect that once they get my $500, they will come back with "we couldn't find one so it'll be x months to order one." Then I am out $500 unless I buy from them and if I buy from them I no longer have negotiating power should a better deal or rebate come along.
Right now, I count a mere 26 TDI wagons within a 120 mile radius of my home and only 1 is equipped with the options I seek and both the exterior and interior are unacceptable colors. What gives? This is really frustrating. Is anyone else looking and finding no stock or am I the only person who wants leather, ESP and a manual tranny? A silver version of what I wanted was sitting across the street from my office for a few weeks taunting me, too. /images/graemlins/mad.gif
To me this reeks of a scam, especially since I've been searching all over and no one has one. I would expect that once they get my $500, they will come back with "we couldn't find one so it'll be x months to order one." Then I am out $500 unless I buy from them and if I buy from them I no longer have negotiating power should a better deal or rebate come along.
Right now, I count a mere 26 TDI wagons within a 120 mile radius of my home and only 1 is equipped with the options I seek and both the exterior and interior are unacceptable colors. What gives? This is really frustrating. Is anyone else looking and finding no stock or am I the only person who wants leather, ESP and a manual tranny? A silver version of what I wanted was sitting across the street from my office for a few weeks taunting me, too. /images/graemlins/mad.gif