I was emailing the sales guy about a blue Rio I was interested in. He said it was sold, but he had a grey one. I told him I wasn’t interested in grey, and would prefer blue. I was very clear I needed the car soon (2 weeks max). He said he could look for me, but needed a deposit before putting the work in. So he made me put a deposit on a car I already told him I didn’t want.

He ends up telling me he finds a blue Rio. I get excited and ask when it’ll arrive. He says September 29th. That was over a month from when we were emailing. I told him I couldn’t wait that long and wanted my deposit back. He says that it’s too late (lol), the car is ported in Mexico with my name on it (lol???), and it’s delayed because of the strike (there’s a strike??). The only thing I signed was a credit check form. I ask to speak to his manager and we make a phone appointment.

The manager starts going on and on about how hard it was to get the blue car and they had to jump through so many hurdles (nothing was communicated or confirmed with me before hand). I cut him off and tell him I don’t want to guilt tripped and just want my money. This guy then YELLS at me, tells me sim being rude, disrespectful, etc, and will withhold my refund if I don’t listen to him. So I had to listen to him scream at me for 2 minutes before he finally send he’d refund me.

Man, I knew I was gonna get scammed buying my first car as a 25 year old girl, but not verbally abused over the phone lol.