Re: more info
Did you happen to notice whether his pants were on fire when he was telling you this?MattM said:
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I did smell something funny, but no actual flames. 
I honestly don't think he knew. Which isn't to say someone else at the dealership higher up doesn't.
I honestly don't think he knew. Which isn't to say someone else at the dealership higher up doesn't.
I recieved a call today from a friend who Whole Sales cars for a living, he offered me a Black/Black, Touring and Sport pkg for $10k over MSRPDonovan said:
The car is due to arrive on the East Coast next week.Please don't mistake this as a solicitation...I'm just venting my frustration with Lotus since he can find a way to get the Elise (he's sold two already) and they can't even give me an ETA on the arrival date of our Demo:huh:
BTW...don't discount what Overseas said about the "gift" cars, although it is unfortunate they decided to test the market with their pricing of it. We were given the chance to pick up one since our Demo is somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle but Lotus screwed that one up too
With so few cars in the states and many dealers waiting for their first car, it's amazing that this sort of stuff happens. I suppose it's really a small fraction of the cars being produced in the long run, but it just seems wrong.Canyon Carver said:I recieved a call today from a friend who Whole Sales cars for a living, he offered me a Black/Black, Touring and Sport pkg for $10k over MSRP
Please don't mistake this as a solicitation...I'm just venting my frustration with Lotus since he can find a way to get the Elise (he's sold two already) and they can't even give me an ETA on the arrival date of our Demo:huh:
Re: I can only speak for our dealership
I'll try to make this crazy story short but here it goes: I think Jeff is speaking about me here on the "unnamed client who fell on a car".
To make a long story short, last week I was 2nd in line to purchase a car at Dimmit which was eventually sold to the jewelry store owner see pics in the earlier post (that MF SOB.. just kidding) ( read last Wednesday or Thursday's posts). That was the day Jeff first posted here on Elisetalk, and so when I saw him posting I enquired about what had happened to our deal since Clay my salesperson at Dimmit was on a mini-vacation, BTW Clay had been totally upfront with me about having to offer the car to someonelse first but still he had told me that if the other guy didn't take it, the car would be mine so I was really excited and not sleeping for 2 days waiting to hear on the car, I had never met or even talked to Jeff before that post and he didn't know who I was so he was a little pissed when I questioned him on the sale but as soon as I identified myself to Jeff as a customer he called his Salesguy in Boston to find out if I was really a customer of theirs and as soon as Clay confirmed it he PMd me with his direct phone number at the dealership, maybe 10 minutes later!. I contacted him and we talked and I apologized for coming a little strong on him ( you guys may remember my reply post to Fox Valley where I was a little harsh on the guy and he never came back again! sure you guys helped me plenty on that one!) after a while he let me know that a customer of his had been in touch with him telling him he wanted to get out of his car which was supposed to already be in country (he had the VIN for it already), he told me the car was a Nightfall Blue/ Biscuit car and so I told him that I was willing to purchase the car immediatelly. He contacted the owner, we all got together and agreed on a price and closed the deal. I received a contract from Jeff that same afternoon including the VIN and sale at MSRP. Jeff also offered me to help with financing and even took my MCS in trade for a higher price than the MINI dealer where I purchased it was willing to give me so that I would get the extra +/- $1,200.00 savings in FL sales tax ( maybe I shouldn't let Jeff know about that in here since I still don't have the Liz in my greasy little hands!! ) So, since Wednesday or Thursady Jeff has been taking care of me at Dimmit personally since Clay is out, got me a car and this morning around noon he gave me a call and said I wasn't going to believe but MY car had just come in!
Crazy sequence of events! If I hadn't poked Jeff with my post last week we would've never talked and this car would probably be sold before the weekend was out or at least before Clay gets back from his vacation! Now the final kicker is that Jeff told me not to drop everyting and rush out to Dimmit to pick up the car just yet today because he has to PDI the car but if everything was ok he would come in Sunday ( they are closed!) and deliver my car himself if I wished! I' didn't want to be that much of a pain so I'm planning on driving the 4.5 hours to Dimmit Monday but Jeff has gone waaaayyyy out of his way to satisfy me and I can't say enough about the professionalism and speed with which he took care of business in my case. I think my star was shining bright this week! but it sure doesn't hurt any the fact that for some reason Dimmit seems to be getting more cars than anyone at this point and they are taking care of their customers as fast as they can! I think they received 4 or 5 customer cars since yesterday including mine! Jeff if you read this, I went out and bought you a presnt today and I'll give to you on Monday AFTER we finish signing papers!:clap:
You guys who are like me and can't wait to see NFB can look forward to lots of pictures of my new Nightfall Blue/biscuit Elise as soon as I'm back from Dimmit on Monday!
Randy, If you could please change my screen name on Monday to the new one I PMd you that would be great!
Thanks
Everyone... I've been trying to keep this thing quiet untill it was a done deal (my Dad always taught me not to open my mouth till a deal is done) but I can't contain myself anymore!!! I'm so elated, ecstatic, damn lucky week! Sorry Dad but ....js2665 said:
I'll try to make this crazy story short but here it goes: I think Jeff is speaking about me here on the "unnamed client who fell on a car".
To make a long story short, last week I was 2nd in line to purchase a car at Dimmit which was eventually sold to the jewelry store owner see pics in the earlier post (that MF SOB.. just kidding) ( read last Wednesday or Thursday's posts). That was the day Jeff first posted here on Elisetalk, and so when I saw him posting I enquired about what had happened to our deal since Clay my salesperson at Dimmit was on a mini-vacation, BTW Clay had been totally upfront with me about having to offer the car to someonelse first but still he had told me that if the other guy didn't take it, the car would be mine so I was really excited and not sleeping for 2 days waiting to hear on the car, I had never met or even talked to Jeff before that post and he didn't know who I was so he was a little pissed when I questioned him on the sale but as soon as I identified myself to Jeff as a customer he called his Salesguy in Boston to find out if I was really a customer of theirs and as soon as Clay confirmed it he PMd me with his direct phone number at the dealership, maybe 10 minutes later!. I contacted him and we talked and I apologized for coming a little strong on him ( you guys may remember my reply post to Fox Valley where I was a little harsh on the guy and he never came back again! sure you guys helped me plenty on that one!) after a while he let me know that a customer of his had been in touch with him telling him he wanted to get out of his car which was supposed to already be in country (he had the VIN for it already), he told me the car was a Nightfall Blue/ Biscuit car and so I told him that I was willing to purchase the car immediatelly. He contacted the owner, we all got together and agreed on a price and closed the deal. I received a contract from Jeff that same afternoon including the VIN and sale at MSRP. Jeff also offered me to help with financing and even took my MCS in trade for a higher price than the MINI dealer where I purchased it was willing to give me so that I would get the extra +/- $1,200.00 savings in FL sales tax ( maybe I shouldn't let Jeff know about that in here since I still don't have the Liz in my greasy little hands!!
) So, since Wednesday or Thursady Jeff has been taking care of me at Dimmit personally since Clay is out, got me a car and this morning around noon he gave me a call and said I wasn't going to believe but MY car had just come in! Crazy sequence of events! If I hadn't poked Jeff with my post last week we would've never talked and this car would probably be sold before the weekend was out or at least before Clay gets back from his vacation! Now the final kicker is that Jeff told me not to drop everyting and rush out to Dimmit to pick up the car just yet today because he has to PDI the car but if everything was ok he would come in Sunday ( they are closed!) and deliver my car himself if I wished! I' didn't want to be that much of a pain so I'm planning on driving the 4.5 hours to Dimmit Monday but Jeff has gone waaaayyyy out of his way to satisfy me and I can't say enough about the professionalism and speed with which he took care of business in my case. I think my star was shining bright this week! but it sure doesn't hurt any the fact that for some reason Dimmit seems to be getting more cars than anyone at this point and they are taking care of their customers as fast as they can! I think they received 4 or 5 customer cars since yesterday including mine! Jeff if you read this, I went out and bought you a presnt today and I'll give to you on Monday AFTER we finish signing papers!:clap:
You guys who are like me and can't wait to see NFB can look forward to lots of pictures of my new Nightfall Blue/biscuit Elise as soon as I'm back from Dimmit on Monday!
Randy, If you could please change my screen name on Monday to the new one I PMd you that would be great!
Thanks
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