Botnick was definitely not the car dealership I thought it would be!
Recently I saw an ad on TV that said I would get a great deal on a new car at Botnick Chevrolet. The ad was one of those push, pull or drag your trade in ones where you get a minimum of $2000 or so for your trade. So I drove in with my old Jeep Cherokee and I was looking around on the side lot by the service entrance for about 45 minutes to an hour and no one had come out to talk to me.
I was already becoming disgruntled with this car dealership as usually a car salesman is on you like flies on crap at most car dealerships or atleast they are in a huddle smoking and see you, but apparently at Botnick Chevrolet they do the complete reverse of that. So I went inside and, to my amazement, was greeted by a very nice car salesman named Thomas Manglinos. He asked me if someone had helped me and I told him no. I told him I was here to buy a car because of the great sales advertisement I saw on TV.
So he asked me what I was looking for and how much money I wanted to spend. He treated me very nicely I must say. Then this lady that was a total bitch came in and told him to take a credit application from me before we could proceed. She gave me a weird look, handed Mr. Manglinos a credit application and then left his office. It was as if they were doing profiling at this car dealership and they had a ready determined that I had bad credit without even knowing me and this lady did not want them wasting their time on me if I had bad credit.
At this treatment, not from Thomas Manglinos as he was very nice, but from this lady that was apparently his boss, I was very perturbed. I came to this car dealership to get a good deal on a new car and expect to be treated with respect. That means I didn’t expect to have a credit report or application rammed down my throat before I could even test drive a vehicle. It was as if she had a ready determined that I had bad credit and she didn’t want her salesperson to waste any time with me.
So I kindly got up and thank Thomas Manglinos for his time and told him he was a nice man, but that I had to leave because the treatment I had just received from this lady whom was most likely his boss and the sales manager there was just ridiculous. I do not and cannot stand to be treated that way. So I left the car dealership without filling out a credit application and ended up going to another car dealership on the Vestal Parkway.
They treated me great from the beginning, let me test drive several cars and then we sat and discussed pricing on vehicles. Only after I agreed to a price on both my trade in and on the new car that I was purchasing did they then asked to run my credit. Being that they were all professional and very nice to me from the salesperson on up to the manager I let them run my credit. It turned out I had an 800 credit score which according to the finance manager was about the best anyone can get.
I ended up getting a great deal on a new car and great treatment at this other car dealership. I was not ordered to fill out a credit application just to take a test drive. Now I want to assert here that the salesperson, Thomas Manglinos, was very professional and very nice to me. I had no problem whatsoever with him. The problem I had was with the lady sales manager at Botnick Chevrolet. She was rude acted in a way that no sales manager should. If I were Mr. Botnick I would fire her.
Overall, I have to give Botnick Chevrolet a very bad recommendation. Sorry, Thomas Manglinos, maybe you should go and work at that much nicer store on the Vestal Parkway. They deserve good salespeople like yourself.
I went there once – Botnick Chevy is a tiny little dealership on Front St. near downtown Binghamton. Its a really depressed and sad area around there. Lots of homeless people and vagrants meandering by all day. Lots of crack and drug houses in the nearby vicinity. You can literally go a stones throw from Botnick’s and get any drug you want from marijuana to crack and cocaine. Interesting place and town.
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