Ideal Car Centre from Ideal Car Centre in response to BEWARE!! Scammers

Actually this customer is unhappy and became very rude and abusive as we refused to break the law and allow him to view and test drive a car during lockdown and endanger both our business and the health and safety of our staff and their family. This 'customer' enquired over Facebook and stated he would not buy a car without viewing or driving it. We informed him that unfortunately under the current legislation we were not allowed to open for him to do so but were allowed to sell the car over the phone or online and offer click and collect should he wish, including a 3 month warranty on the car and a full refund should the car not be as described on collection. We explained we have sold many cars this way and it was his choice. Unfortunately he began swearing and insulting members of staff as we were not allowed to open specifically for him and we informed him that he was not allowed to leave his house simply to view cars as it was not considered an essential journey and he could be fined for it. He then started accusing us of being 'scammers'. He even drove to our site which was closed, rang after hours because he couldn’t see the car which was inside our locked showroom and then started swearing at our staff over the phone and calling us abusive names. Fortunately we have kept copies of his abusive messages including the disgusting language he used.

Ideal Car Centre from Ideal Car Centre in response to Car enquiry

We are sorry to hear you are unhappy as we pride ourselves on good customer service. As you have not given your details or any actual details of what happened we cannot confirm who you are however if you are the gentlemen who emailed whilst we were closed during the Coronavirus lockdown on our BMW X5, you informed us very bluntly you were not interested in our car at that price despite it being reduced by £1,000 during our sale, the cheapest in the country, and £3,000 below the market value. You were politely informed of this and advised if you were not happy with the price that unfortunately we could not help you and you would need to buy a different car if you did not want to buy ours at the sale price. We have copies of these emails to prove this. You then wished to complain to a manager at which point you claimed your emails said something completely different. When we read the emails to you to confirm your complaint you became extremely rude and aggressive. We are at a loss to your claims of being threatened or anyone being rude or aggressive. Thankfully our calls are recorded and we are happy to replay them for you to show we were at all times polite and trying to be helpful, you were simply unhappy we would not reduce the car further. Again we are sorry to hear you were unhappy but we are more then happy to provide copies of the emails and phone recordings should you still not be satisfied.

Unknown in response to Excellent

Possibly worst service I have ever experienced from a car dealer