Dealership Experience

[GrimReaper]

I have already documented most of my trials here in Central Florida. Needless to say, my endeavor to order an H3 over the past month has been a most frustrating experience. I am now three weeks into my third attempt to buy an H3, but I have not yet received a straight answer from my salesman about my order. I'm paying cash. I've never found it harder to give away 38,000 hard earned dollars!

He has been very nice on the phone, but he is always busy, and so when I call to ask if I actually have a vehicle on order, I get short answers like "you golden bud", or "you in da chute", or "you all taken care of, everything is right here on my desk". I'm not sure exactly what any of that means, and he doesn't seem to have the time to elaborate. I keep trying to get him to take a deposit, and he always puts me off until early next week, and then when early next week comes, he tells me that he will take the deposit later in the week. I asked for an order number and he was going to have his inventory manager get back to me, but that never happened.

I have asked for some sort of printout of the order so that I could verify the config, but I have received nothing of the sort. I'm guessing that, for some reason, GM has not yet accepted the order (this was the case with the previous dealer). I faxed them a printout from the Hummer site with my configuration, but it seems that I will have to wait two+ months for delivery before I can verify that the order was placed in the manner that I requested. I am resigned to the fact that I will just have to let it go, and then one day out of the blue someone will call me and tell me that my slate blue, manual trans, lux, adv. pack has arrived. I just hope that it does not show up dressed in white, with chrome wheels, no sunroof, and and automatic trans!