My experience with North York Chrysler Jeep Continues… + Misc.

January 10, the day after My experience with North York Chrysler Jeep post.  I went to work early and everything was same as usual but I was expecting someone from Chrysler Jeep would call me back, after all, I posted an article about what I experienced on their facebook page and my blog.  I was quite busy at work all morning hoping someone would call but my cel phone was dead silence in my pocket.  Long story short, the sale manager called back, kept apologizing along with BS and of course I told him how pissed I was.  At the end of that conversation, I told him I would need an hour to make a decision whether if I wanted the vehicle or not, so I hung up.  Then I called a few friends for advice about what I should do and came up with a decision that I would still get the vehicle but had to ask for a compensation or some sort.  Here came the interesting part, another sales person called to follow up my case, female, completely had no clue on what happened.  I roughly explained to her the details and she kindly answered all my questions, that moment, it totally felt like a godly light finally shining on me after 15 weeks of BS.  Well, of course she wasn’t sure about the compensation part because she was totally innocent on my case.  Anyhow, got everything kind of settled and the car would be ready the next day, hoping to get it at 11ish, the sooner the better :p

January 11, got a call at 9ish from the sales saying the car would be ready after 1 instead of 11, I got no complains at all, why?  Because to me, that was another godly light moment, someone actually cared/followed up my case, unlike whatever… sigh…  Anyways, got there around 2, saw the car in the parking lot from miles away because of the color, went inside the dealership, of course didn’t even bother looking for the sales manager.  Instead, with the help of that super helpful sales person, got all the documents done and ready to drive the car away.  Now you might ask, ok, did they compensate anything?  The answer is NO, not even a key chain, well I didn’t ask for one but anyhow, instead they asked me to take down my My experience with North York Chrysler Jeep post.  Ummm…  what?

All those cars accessories really cost nothing to the dealership, and after all those trouble, NOTHING?  I love to bargain, but this just don’t seem right in many many ways…  So if I take down the post and I will get the freebies, pardon my poor second language but is that how it sounded like?  Maybe a Jeep is a cheap car, probably the cheapest car I have ever owned in the last 15 years, I really don’t mind paying the money to get the stuffs I like, all my friends know that but if you ask me to take down a truth and get some freebies, hell no.

Anyways, speak from my experience.  1, Get a female sales if possible, they are the best.  2, Sales managers don’t mean they are better, they had been as sales longer but more outdated, not as hard working, don’t reply/follow up as quick as regular sales and they love to play games.  3, Read the agreement when you purchase your vehicle, if it doesn’t arrive in 3 months, most likely you can get your deposit back no question’s asked.  4, Stick with your instinct, get the stuffs you love, for example, your car because I love my Jeep :p  5, If you are looking for a Chrysler dealership, there are TONS in Toronto  6, Say what you want in your social media websites like facebook, twitter, youtube, blogs etc. because you have the right to tell the truth.

At last, everything I posted here speaks from my personal experience, everything I saw with my own eyes, heard from my ears translated into words, no animals were harmed, no names were mentioned and definitely not trying to offend anybody.  You can treat this as a joke or you can believe 100% but all I can tell you is, I got my car and I fucking love it, because it is what I wanted but went thru a horrible 15 weeks with tons of stuffs in between.

Edited March 13, 2012.  The Survey…  Click here My experience with North York Chrysler Jeep (part3)

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My experience with North York Chrysler Jeep

I just wanted to share a little story about my experience with North York Chrysler Jeep.  Near the end of the summer 2011, I was planning to get a winter car for the up coming cold winter, so me and my friend Livius started doing some research on a reliable and good winter car that fit my needs.  We came across a few brands, went to the dealerships and test drove a few of them.  Jeep Wrangler was the last one I looked at and surprisingly it stood out good from most of my choices.  After a couple of hours, I put an offer in and deposit, ordered the vehicle on October 1, 2011.  I was also told the vehicle would arrive in 8-12 weeks, on a side note, I did tell the sales person I would like to get it in Dec.

week 3 – called the sales person I didn’t mind to get the vehicle sooner if possible

week 5 – called to find out the status of the car and found out that sales person no longer worked there. They redirected me to another person, didn’t really get the name at the time but anyhow, it was a voice mail anyways, so I left a message but no replies after.

week 8 – found out there was an online chat from their website, so I tried, got redirected to a sales manager, got an auto reply thing and didn’t really get a real person to reply at all.  Went in the dealership in person, tried to find that sales manager in that email in person, got there, he was in a meeting, so I talked with another guys there.  Told him about my situation and he knew it right away about my car because of the special color of the vehicle.  Told me to wait for the car because there was not info from the factory yet…  So I left…

week 11 – got a call from them, told me he just got my email because he was on vacation or whatever and told me to wait again, and the vehicle should be there at the end of DEC 2011.

week 12 – well I already knew I wasn’t going to get it because not really a lot of business days at the end of 2011.

week 14 – exactly 3 months and 1 day after I made the order, went online chat again and complained, got an email back saying I should get my car on Jan 9, 2012 so I waited.

week 15Jan 9, 2012.  Still haven’t got a vin number of the vehicle, called the sales manager at 2ish, it was voice mail again, left a message, waited till 4pm, still no replies.  Got really pissed because I had already arranged a ride to pick up the car and still no emails or phone calls of the car status.  Went online chat on their website, complained and got another auto reply thingie again.  Left work and emailed the sales manager that I would like to have my deposit back because of the delay and…

Still no replies from any real person at this point.  I did mention in my last email to the sales manager, I only paid a deposit and I was already getting no service at all, so how the hack do I expect any good service after I bought the car…  Also on the back of the agreement sales contract, it says I could get my deposit back after 3 months and that’s why I asked again in week 14…  Don’t get me wrong but Jeep Wrangler is still a great car I think (well, from reviews, its awesome, but you never know unless you ACTUALLY HAVE ONE) but from what I am experiencing, I have already lost the trust of the sales people, service?  umm…

I don’t know, I had never experienced something like this, maybe it was a wrong decision but definitely there was something wrong about that…  we’ll see what happens, my decision is made at this point, hopefully I will get my deposit back when I go find out after work tomorrow…

Edited January 11, 2012.  What happened after?  Click here My experience with North York Chrysler Jeep Continues… + Misc.

Edited March 13, 2012.  The Survey…  Click here My experience with North York Chrysler Jeep (part3)

 

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Action Figures

I was told by Sunny that an old friend Eric has been collecting action figures for years so I had to to see how crazy a toys collector can get with my own eyes.  Not a lot of people would use the space and display cabinets to show off their collections as neat as Eric really.  There were 3 cabinets for any robots action figures and more than 10 for 1:6 scale action figures, when I saw the whole setup of the displays, my jaw almost dropped to the floor because everything looked extremely nice.  Anyways, after a full tour of the room and a long chat with him, part of me was already thinking…  ummm, maybe I should start collecting some of those as a hobby as well…  Seriously, I never knew those human action figures could look that nice.  Anyways, I didn’t take a lot of pictures but you get the idea when you look at these 🙂

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Lunch with the Aunties @黃金閣 again

This Friday was a cooking class day off in between the previous and coming semesters, so most of the aunties and our teacher Joseph were available to have lunch together.  I figured 黃金閣 would be a good place since they can really keep up the quality and it is close to mostly everyone.  I am sure there will be more lunch gathering like this in the coming future, most of us didn’t apply cooking class because we were told to let more new students to join instead of us dominating it.  Anyhow, it was a very fun afternoon, and the Chinese New Year is coming in about 2 weeks, we will probably have a gathering dinner with most of us soon, so stay tuned :p

P.S.  the last 2 pictures are rare dishes, not all Chinese restaurant has it fyi 😀

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First Day at work in 2012

First day at work in 2012 and it’s the coldest temperature by far, Toronto remains under an extreme cold weather alert today as the temperature hovers around -12 C with wind chills of -20 to -25, but the weather is expected to warm up later this week.  Until then, cold, Arctic air is going to hang over the city, so people should bundle up when they head outdoors.

Environment Canada is predicting a high of -12 C with wind chills as low as -25 in the morning.  And surprisingly, the sky is soooo clear, no clouds, just wind and a super clear moon.  Just wanted to share a picture I just took outside my office this afternoon.

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