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Stephen W. · 06-20-2016, 09:21 PM

I spoke with sales people (men and women) at several dealerships when the Release Series 2.0 was first announced. As mentioned, this lot are clueless. Several didn’t even know about the Release Series 1.0 let alone 2.0. Great advertisement for the dealer’s employees Toyota/Scion product knowledge, eh?
Anyway, when the announcement came that Scion was done and that only a couple of the models would carry over into the Toyota brand I started getting phone calls. Each sales person wanted to make sure I knew that the FR-S RS 2.0 was going to become a highly sot after collector's item and that if I wanted one I had to act right then! I was polite enough to wait until I was off the phone before I broke out in laughter.
Then last week I find two messages left on my home phone from one of the nice guys who actual took the time to listen to my questions. He was honest enough to tell me when he didn’t know an answer and genuine enough to seek them out. So he was all excited to tell about the unbelievable deals on the FR-S right now. They just got word that they were to blow out the remaining Scions at unheard of discount prices and that I should give him a call. The second message was him telling me that he’d forgot to mention that he could get me a RS 2.0 at, well… a price he could only tell me in person.
So the next day after work I stopped in to find out about this great price. There were RED TAG deal signs all over the place. But, he sheepishly said that they only had one FR-S auto and he knew I wanted a manual. I reminded him of his message that he could get a FR-S RS 2.0 and I asked what was the great price to which he said; well that isn’t on the list. WHAT???? Thanks, I’ll be going now.
It just so happened that I was in another city on Friday and stopped into the dealer there. WOW, in the showroom was a FR-S RS 2.0 with a big red RED TAG DAYS deal tag on the windshield. I asked the salesman what the deal was and he told me there wasn’t one. I asked; Then why the HUGE sales tag on the windshield? His reply was that it was just advertising for the IM’s and TC’s left in inventory. I asked him about the $1000 dollars cash back and the .99% financing that I’d read about? His reply was, the cash back is only for students and isn’t on the FR-S models and that .99% is on 24 month lease deals only.
What a crock of excrement!

06-20-2016, 09:21 PM	#32
Stephen W. Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2016 Drives: 1993 Caterham HPC Evo Location: Quinte West Ontario Posts: 1,744 Thanks: 1,646 Thanked 2,991 Times in 1,183 Posts Mentioned: 7 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	When is a deal not a deal? I spoke with sales people (men and women) at several dealerships when the Release Series 2.0 was first announced. As mentioned, this lot are clueless. Several didn’t even know about the Release Series 1.0 let alone 2.0. Great advertisement for the dealer’s employees Toyota/Scion product knowledge, eh? Anyway, when the announcement came that Scion was done and that only a couple of the models would carry over into the Toyota brand I started getting phone calls. Each sales person wanted to make sure I knew that the FR-S RS 2.0 was going to become a highly sot after collector's item and that if I wanted one I had to act right then! I was polite enough to wait until I was off the phone before I broke out in laughter. Then last week I find two messages left on my home phone from one of the nice guys who actual took the time to listen to my questions. He was honest enough to tell me when he didn’t know an answer and genuine enough to seek them out. So he was all excited to tell about the unbelievable deals on the FR-S right now. They just got word that they were to blow out the remaining Scions at unheard of discount prices and that I should give him a call. The second message was him telling me that he’d forgot to mention that he could get me a RS 2.0 at, well… a price he could only tell me in person. So the next day after work I stopped in to find out about this great price. There were RED TAG deal signs all over the place. But, he sheepishly said that they only had one FR-S auto and he knew I wanted a manual. I reminded him of his message that he could get a FR-S RS 2.0 and I asked what was the great price to which he said; well that isn’t on the list. WHAT???? Thanks, I’ll be going now. It just so happened that I was in another city on Friday and stopped into the dealer there. WOW, in the showroom was a FR-S RS 2.0 with a big red RED TAG DAYS deal tag on the windshield. I asked the salesman what the deal was and he told me there wasn’t one. I asked; Then why the HUGE sales tag on the windshield? His reply was that it was just advertising for the IM’s and TC’s left in inventory. I asked him about the $1000 dollars cash back and the .99% financing that I’d read about? His reply was, the cash back is only for students and isn’t on the FR-S models and that .99% is on 24 month lease deals only. What a crock of excrement!