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Originally Posted by kskumaraxa1660 I have booked my first car, a Nexon Creative AMT petrol variant today from Key Motors, Kanakapura Road |
Well, I guess I was naive to think that making full payment should put me in normal sales workflow of an allotment, PDI, and an eventual delivery of vehicle. However, Key Motors team had other ideas. Their sales team's ineptitude is baffling. While I was prepared for a certain degree of high handed approach, their casualness has no limits.
Firstly, i must admit that we had flip-flops initially when I oscilated between Punch and Nexon which caused initially a headache for me as well as to them. All of this happened in a quick succession that no vehicle was allotted, thankfully I must say which would have complicated the matters. Each time I had to visit them in person to engage a conversation as they hardly responded to calls.
Eventually, I gave my final decision of Nexon. Lets call this day DAY 1. At the time, TL confirmed that Nexon variant I requested was available in stockyard and the whole process would be completed in 7 working days.
Then she did not confirm the allocation until DAY 5 after repeatedly following up. By DAY 6, I transferred the full payment to them as they said vehicle PDI cannot be arranged until full payment is made.
I have requested them to give me a timeslot during the day time for the PDI, but they gave a slot at 5.30pm on DAY 8. When I refused to accept it, they asked me to come at 3.00pm which I did. But stating lack of drivers they made us wait for 2.30 hours, didn't take us to stockyard until 6.20pm. Within 10 minutes of reaching there it was all dark and we had to go back. The executive didn't forget to mention repeatedly that she moved heaven and earth to get me that PDI visit which was a disaster anyway. Coincidentally, the said driver informed me that he was free from the morning and we could have completed it much earlier.
DAY 9 was a Sunday, stockyard is closed, so no visit was possible. By this time, enter new TL who supposedly has 10 yrs of sales exp assuring me all moon and stars with "BEST BUYING EXPERIENCE." He said he will sort out everything and call me with details of visit to stockyard on Monday. No response to calls or messages until next day evening. I had to call up 5 different people apart from the so called CA and TL to confirm my visit to stockyard next day.
Come DAY 10, we finally made it to stockyard. We had another CA assigned to come along with us. During PDI, we found that the driver side front door had a dent and paint got peeled off. Initially he said it was just dirt and will go away in washing and rubbing. I had shown him it's not and he accepted. Then he tells me that they do their own PDI of every vehicle and fix these type of issues. Since it was not done yet for this vehicle, we found this issue but will be rectified by them eventually. I had shared the pictures and videos of this issue and panel gaps on the back of the car near the spoiler with the TL.
Upon receiving a verbal assurance that they would fix and share pictures, I had signed the RTO forms so that they will proceed with registration while bodyshop takes care of the concerns raised.
No acknowledgement of issues found on email or a word on RTO process for next 2 days. Then eventually when I call he doesn't receive or call back. Finally I had to reach another CA to get him call back. Then he tells me he initiated the processes. He said will share the photos once done. Again 2 more days gone, but no news. For a car which is in their stockyard, they are taking awfully many days to deliver. 3rd day, I get a call from CA that I had to go to dealership again to sign some online form for initiating RTO process as the previous forms signed were not accepted. Why would it take 3 days to find out signed forms are not allowed?
The so called TL did not send photos of corrections or any updates. Now waiting for a solution as of
Besides this, they will enter names incorrect, address wrong, make secondary contact number as primary and then say it cannot be corrected until first service. Keep calling my wife , send OTP number and messages to her instead of me.
The whole system is broken, I can only hope that the other sales teams aren't as bad as the ones I got. However, having no accountability and blaming others for the inconveniences caused is the common theme. Now totally dejected by DAY 14 with lethargic attitude, am ready to cancel the booking if no progress made in next couple of days.