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long story short...at least I will try to make it short... I had to cut some expenses since I bought a second house, and the very first thing that came to my mind was trading my one year old Mercedes into something less expensive. The car that has been aways on the top of my list was the BRZ, even by the time I was about to buy the Mercedes, the BRZ was my first option, but they were impossible to find, available on the dealerships, and that thing of putting non-refundable money upfront was not me at all. So I traded my Mercedes on a car that I have great appreciation, not as a sport car, not as fun to drive car, but for its Boxer engine, its AWD, and its amazing fuel economy and pricing, compared to shitty Hyundai, Kias, and VWs, so I got a Impreza Sport, a white one, with dark grey wheels , CVT, and leather seats, and the car was great, i was not the car of my dreams, but I was able to bring my monthly payments to the 400's, and that was my goal. Amazingly, less then a week later, I stop by the Subaru dealer to return my Ex-Mercedes second key, and I suddenly saw a white BRZ on their new cars showroom, and I asked, Is this available? and The sales guy said yes, so I immediately asked him to run the numbers all over again, and we started negotiating and soon we got the numbers settle, the car was mine, and that took just a few minutes. I was so excited living the dealership with the car that was on the top of my wish list, and been able to be less expensive than the Mercedes, that I didnt notice there were about 2k miles on it, I just taught that was probably the weirdest new car deliver I ever had, because it was so freaking quick.. I just got the keys and there were my car waiting for me, but at that point I was glad it was that way. I went to pick up my kid to take her for lunch, and I got a speed ticket @ 86 mph on my way there, so much I was enjoying my little baby, but then, once I got her, my adrenaline was down, and I started to think without the emotion; then I notice the lack of new car smell, and I taught that was odd. Once I got at the restaurant parking lot, I decided to pair my phone with the car, to call my wife overseas, and I start playing on the controls in order to do that, and then, I notice there was a previous phone paired to the car, and I also noticed the navigation was not working, so as soon as I finish lunch, I went back to the dealer, and tried to return the car, and get my Inpreza back, then they lied to me saying the car was already sold (lie),a and the bank had already finished everything, so there was nothing I could do. I went home, and I google how to config the Navigation system, and I found out it was missing a SD card. A day after that, I went back to the dealership, asking for the SD card that was missing, that the guy @ the service desk called someone from the sales department, and he told me the sales person the sold the car to me was no longer working there, and that he could not give me a card because the car was pre-owned. Than I got MAD, extremely pissed off, and so everything was explained then, the lack of new car smell, the missing part, the quick deliver, and all the almost 2k on the odometer that I just had found after getting this information. I try to speak with the Manager but they dont allowed me. So I left the building decided to sue them . I called a few friends, and kept thinking on moving a law suit against them, while I was keeping on negotiating a friendly solution. I wrote down a letter to Subaru of America, they replied back to me saying there were nothing they could do but asking the General Manager talk to me. So that happened, and we both agree it was not fair to pay as new, and get a pre owned car, and specially on my case, that haven't bought a single used car since I finish college, a long time ago, that was something that would bring a lots of frustration, so we agree to wait for the first available BRZ on their inventory, to get back there to solve the issue. About five and a half months latter, I saw on their online inventory, what that may be the last pack of 13 BRZ they would get, so I choose mine, out of four, and went there to finish this Soap Opera, it was still a hard negotiation around the depreciation of my white BRZ, and I found that 1k bucks would be fair, for the time I spent with the car, and the miles I put on it, and finally got my new BRZ, smelling new, 7 miles on the odometer, and no missing part.
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