Toyota of Lewisville Toyota of Lewisville is a rip off!! Lewisville, Texas

and Twitter, so others are aware of what happened. Make sure to let everyone you know that they could come to Ripoff Report and type in- TOYOTA, and go to Ripoff Report #809683.

Continue to expose your Ripoff Report each day at as many websites as possible. You can also email the dealership your Ripoff Report and FAX the dealership your Ripoff Report every day. Let everyone at the dealership know what happened, and let them know how business is conducted at their dealership. Find out who the owner is, and send him or her copies of your Ripoff Report.

Make a BIG picket sign and stand outside the dealership (off of their property) on a Saturday, at around noon, so people who might be interested in purchasing a Toyota can read it. The picket sign could say something like this-

***DECEPTIVE SALES PRACTICES***
Go to Ripoff Report and type in- 809683

A good portion of the people who are interested in purchasing or leasing a new or used Toyota would probably want to know what happened, and they could use their iPhones to read your Ripoff Report before they decided to enter into the dealership, right?

Feel free to type in 269041 at this site and go to 'Consumer Comment #3' at Ripoff Report #269041 and read what was stated regarding "EXPOSURE". (It starts paragraph #4.)

Good luck to you.

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Karl, the idea for a sit down with the GM makes sense. worst that happens is it ends up a waste of time.

The picketing idea, however, can backfire if the dealer is nasty enough, because the customer likely can't prove any verbal agreement and a nasty dealer could go after the customer civilly for defamation/slander, whatever, or even criminal harassment.

A safer route, if difficult, might be trying to gather other customers who report the same issue to band together and try to get a news team to run a sting. That probably means the OP spending some money to advertise for others to contact him/her.

read Ripoff Report #271261 for important information.

Pay attention to what was stated in paragraph #5. 

If all consumers requested to see the computer printout from the sales manager, they would be able to fully understand their 'deal'. Whenever a sales person brings back a 'four square' with hand-written information, like monthly payment, trade-in value, cash down, etc., the customer is being tricked, deceived, and manipulated by the sales manager.

MovingForward is 100% correct in what was stated in Consumer Comment #4.

The majority of Toyota dealerships in the USA, along with most other car dealerships, are attempting to 'trick' potential buyers by manipulating them with all of the hand-written figures on the 'four square'. The reason it is called a 'four square' is because there are four sections on that piece of paper that have the following-

1. Price of vehicle.
2. Trade-in value.
3. Down payment.
4. Monthly payment.

Whenever a customer enters into negotiation with a sales person, they are really being manipulated by the sales manager. Most Toyota sales people have no idea of what is really taking place, in regards to what is put onto the four square. Toyota dealerships purposely hire young sales people with very little knowledge. That way, the sales managers can control what is really taking place.

Most of the owner/operators of Toyota dealerships in the USA are unethical. Most Toyota sales managers are unethical. Most are uneducated. Most Toyota sales managers couldn't structure a proper sentence, using the English language.

Most of the business that is conducted in America is done in the same way that the majority of Toyota dealerships operate. That's why there are so many problems in this country.

Our system in America has its foundation solidly built on lies, deception, fraud, manipulation, greed, trickery, deep corruption, and the constant pursuit to financially injure as many innocent and unsuspecting consumers as possible. We saw what took place in the mortgage business from 2003 until 2007, right? It created a 'meltdown' in the banking sector and a stock market crash in September of 2008.

The same thing was happening, and still is happening, in the car business.

Thank You

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You know you are being worked when the "manager" had you "sign" everytime you made a counteroffer on that piece of paper. There is no valid reason to sign that "paper" that goes to the manager via the salesperson, except that the dealership uses it to make you think you have a deal. It means nothing to the dealer - except they get a laugh when the salesrep goes to the "manager".  A laugh at your expense, literally and figuratively.  

There is only one set of documents that mean anything and that is the contract that is signed in the F&I office. Any sort of showmanship on a 4-square or similar document is just that - showmanship. If a dealer/salesrep/manger starts that business on you, its time to walk out and find another dealership.

Today, you do your research online before you step foot into a dealership. Get your financing lined up with a credit union before you ever even go to any dealer.  That way you know your terms before they even meet you. If you do it that way, you come from a position of strengh. If they don't sell it to you for the price you negotiate with the research you have completed before visiting the dealer, you walk out and find someone that will. After all, with your own financing arranged in advance, you are the same as a cash buyer. Don't let the dealerships work you - you work them.

If everyone did their research first, the dealerships would change or go out of business.

An oral agreement will not hold up in a court of law. However, you can schedule a meeting with the General Manager of the Toyota dealership and request that all of the parties involved be present.

Let the GM know what happened, and then allow the other employees to give their side of the story. There is a chance that the GM will do what is right and make the offer stand, and charge the employees the difference by taking the money out of their paychecks on a monthly basis. 

Believe it or not, there are some honest and ethical Toyota GM's in the USA who will make sure that their customers are treated honestly and fairly.

If you are able to have a meeting with the GM and the other employees, and it doesn't work out to your satisfaction, you can always do what Jerry did. Jerry put vinyl lemons all over his 2007 Toyota Camry and stood outside of the dealership and passed out flyers letting people know what happened after Toyota Corporation and the Toyota dealership wouldn't help him.

Just type in 354721 at this site and read Ripoff Report #354721. Then read his 'Update By Author #3'.

You can stand outside the Toyota dealership with a big picket sign and hand out copies of your Ripoff Report, so other potential customers are aware of what transpired, right? You can even contact all of your Local T.V. stations and let them know you will be picketing outside of the Toyota dealership, if you decide to do it. 

Good luck to you.

    Oral agreements can be legal, but as Robert noted, are very difficult to enforce. 

    Another thing about them is that they are not enforceable if you have a written agreement (such as a sales or lease contract).   There is no such thing as an oral addendum to a written agreement.    In the presence of a written agreement, anything agreed to orally goes out the window.   If there are any additions or modifications to an agreement, they must be added to the written contract.  You cannot orally modify a written contract.  

   In the car business, this is one of the biggest sources of complaints on this site.   People believe that the salesman is required to uphold any oral promises, when in fact, if they weren't in the contract, they are not enforceable.  Salesmen know this, hence their long standing reputation for touting the quality of cars they know to be lemons.   They know that they can tell you anything because it doesn't matter if it's not in the contract.  

   An example I often use is that a salesman can tell you that a car will poop a gold nugget out of the tailpipe every 1000 miles.    If that "feature" isn't in the contract, you should have no real expectation of it happening.

I do believe that an oral agreement is legal.
- It is legal the problem is that you have to prove what was said.  There is an old saying that an oral agreement is worth about as much as the paper it is printed on.  In other words..nothing.