Do you know how they adjust your college marks when they transfer from a Canadian university to a US school? They add 1.0. Sadly, my 3.9 went only to a 4.0 when I transferred down here (that’s as high as they’ll adjust).

I love America, but the school system here blows. That’s why all my kids are in private school (and why they can read).

I goggled Park Place and found this website which set of red flashing lights in my brain to avoid giving these guys any of my money after reading some of the post. But they had the car I had been looking for…..

I had my convinced myself I was not going to buy this car and started to search again. But something in the back of my mind kept me going back looking at Park Place’s website and this website with most of the post being negative towards Park Place. My wife wanted to take a trip down to Seattle, so I thought maybe should go and have a look at the car at least and speak to sales guy there. I made contact with Bryan and had the initial Carfax sent to me and information about Park Place. He seemed very pleasant and friendly. He didn’t harass me about getting the car and responded to question quickly and honestly.

The weekend finally came and I called Park Place to make sure car was there and inform them I was coming down to look at. When I got there was met by Bryan who showed me around the car and took me for a test drive. The car drove and looked brand new, I was sold. But the images of this website kept coming up. So I arranged a PPI to be carried out on the car.

When the PPI report came back everything was good except 1 issue that was stored 36 times in the DMU. I spoke with Park Place and told them that I was no longer interested as the car could possibly have a major fault; the PPI was not able to determine the full extent of the issue and it would have to be taken to the manufacture that could carry out the full tests. Park Place accepted this and did not give me any hassle.

I got a phone call a few weeks later from Park Place, thanking me for showing interest in the car and were letting me know that they were going to get the manufacture to inspect the issue and would I like to be informed of the results. A few days later I get a call and was informed that although the car was no longer covered by warrantee, Park Place had persuaded the manufacture to repair the issue as none of warning lights showed there was an issue and also that it may have started whilst the car was still under warrantee, which the manufacture agreed and were going to repair the issue at no cost.

I respected the fact that not once after I turned the car down did Park Place try any sale tricks for me to buy the car even tho it was being fixed by the manufacturer. They came across very professional and contradict some of the posts above. Some other commitments have come up and the car search on hold for a short while. I believe if they did manage to find another car I would buy from them or If the car is still available who knows.

I hope this helps anyone reading this post.

Anyone know what happened to Scooter? They told me he was “travelling in Europe”, but he’s been incognito for a while now.

PS: To Stuey who was ranting about WA schools and the grammar of posters here, your own post “obviated” the need to come up with a rebuttal. If you don’t know what a big word means, using it worse than sticking with the small ones!

If you’re a company selling high-end items (and extremely high-priced), it should be in your best interest to foster the best possible relationships and rapport. Park Place is very lucky to be located in an area with a great percentage of high-income professionals, but a community that’s still small enough for word to get around.

And a quick reference to Stuey: It’s quite possible that many of the people who’ve posted here have Washington educations, but let me remind you of a few things …

1) Bill Gates does not have a college degree. Does that change the way you think about Microsoft? It doesn’t mean a thing to me. Microsoft has not suffered from this.

2) Your post is an ad hominem argument. If you have to argue here, make sure that your points are limited to the topic and NOT against people themselves. That’s an invalid argument and I’m actually quite surprised you didn’t know that or would choose to ignore that considering your clearly superior educational background.

3) Who cares where we all went to school. Let’s get back on point … when someone is spending a LOT of money on something and putting trust in someone’s word, it’s critical that the company be ethical and provide full disclosure.

Coming back around to my opinion on Park Place, I think what is clearly needed here is a company that’s willing to fully disclose things even if that means losing a sale. If someone would’ve told me the truth, I would’ve RESPECTED them and I probably would’ve come back for another sale.

Keeping critical information from someone will NEVER foster long-term relationships. I don’t care how nice they are in the beginning. You can smile and offer all of the free junk you want, if we find you were lying or withholding information, no one will come back. People won’t REFER your business to others. People won’t respect you. And I do believe referrals are a big part of your business.

If you want to argue that - so be it. I would relish the opportunity to hear opinions that support that kind of business.

When I read over all of these posts, it overwhelmingly sounds like Park Place is a black hole for business ethics. I’m not happy to say that. I think they carry some amazing products that, obviously, we all want. I’m speaking strictly of their consignment autos and abilities to broker a deal. Rather than sending their employees here for a rebuttal, they should simply decide to be honest and ethical and fully disclose important details.

I have had two cars serviced in there service dept…and one modified over at car nutz. The car nutz guys are decent as long as nothing goes wrong with the car they work on then the tell you caveat emptour….they f-d up a car I brought over for some fog lights and sent over to service for general maintenence. The car ran on three of six pistons. When I brought it back it turned out they broke one of the ignition leads and it was arcing the motor! They fixed the problem but a peice of the engine bay was left off the car.

I do not recomend buying a car here as the whole sales experience is a nightmare…I should know I bought three car’s from them. One sales man in particular is a total scum bag and con man. Rene the Mr. Canuck Bucks from canada. I bought one car from him then I tried to come in and buy another and he kept steering me to a car I did not even want to buy (which was on the lot for at the time 4 months and is still on the lot) I eventually bought the car I wanted came back and traded it in on another and his smart ass comment was that he told me that was not the car for me…or something to that effect.

In summary steer clear of this dealer or any of there affliated business’s with the reputation they have developed customer’s are starting to become aware of the inevetable truth.

Remember it is not depravation of character if it is proven to be true!