We decided to buy a new Kia because of the high safety ratings and they are dirt cheap. Well they were dirt cheap until we got to the dealer and saw that they mark up all the cars by about $4000 for "Market" reasons. I could fly to the mainland and get a new car and ship it back and still be cheaper than that! But hey no big deal it is Hawaii and everything is expensive.
So we tell them we want to walk away with no more than $21000 in finance. We were trading in a car that had a bit of negative equity but it is cheaper in the long run than spend the arm and leg on gas we have been.
Our 4 square (the paper with this is how much your payments are this is how much for your trade, ect.) we signed had us paying around $520 a month for 60 months or $470 or so for 72 months. Since our old payment was only a little less than the $520 we decided to take that one and just pay a little more each month. Now here we are a few days later and they call and tell us "You need to come in and give us $700"... Odd... So then I start going over the paperwork, these a*hats snuck in another 12 months making it $520 over 72 months stealing $6000 from us!
They are predatory, take advantage of the military and treat the customers like crap. They didn't give us our safety inspection paperwork so my husband couldn't get on to base, took 2 days for them to get it to us and 2 trips to BOTH of their dealerships to try and talk to someone in charge.
The girl working the counter at Nimitz was downright a bitch.insisting no one had office keys on the weekend and that the "owner flies back to his house on Maui on the weekends" and other rude and untrue remarks. After talking with someone else we found that 3 people have keys to the office and that it isn't even in the "owners office" like the girl had said!
Do NOT buy from these guys, they are over priced and ripping of the men and women in the military. They drag out the process so your kids are falling apart then CHANGE your contract and LIE to you! Stay away, stay away, stay away!
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