Gulfcoast Auto Brokers

Mark is the worst. Sold my mother and I an 07 Passat– seemed amazing at the time. Would not start the third day I brought it home– turned out the battery was old and on its last leg. Got an oil change and oil was empty– had gone through entire reserve in three weeks– learned it was a broken turbo that’s gonna cost about 2,000 to fix. Also the air had a leak. He sold us the car ‘as is’ and made sure he covered his ass– took advantage of two unknowing women. Of course when we did a little test drive everything was fine, we didn’t know any better. Bring a mechanic if you are unfortunate enough to go here. Would give negative stars if I could, this drained the money I had saved for grad school. Also as a side note I had texted mark telling him about these problems and he insulted me saying I had offended him by implying he knew about these things– he yelled that I would get bad karma for accusing him and he wouldn’t help me. Very rude, very uncaring, just bad service all around.

Buyer beware I bought a Cadillac Escalade and three days later it left me on the side of the road it needed a $ 400 repair and they would not stand behind it especially the finance department horrible buyer beware

I went into Gulf Coast Auto Brokers with the intent of buying a car.
I got there. Looked around. They had approximately 250 nice looking cars. I was looking for an inexpensive BMW or Mercedes. They said they had one in a storage facility down the street. They went and got it. It was a decent car. It had obviously been in a front end collision. The good, bumper, left fender and right fender had all been repainted. There were some new parts under the hood and some missing trim pieces.
The sales person was upfront about the previous paint work. We drove the car, it drove nicely. Had a clean Carfax and had low mileage.
The car was online for $ 10,600. The sales person said immediately he could do «10». Later I asked about the price and he said I already told you «$ 9,900».
We had cash with us. We’re ready to purchase a car. We probably would have done business at $ 9,500 but didn’t make an offer. We asked the sales person three times where the car came from. He said he didn’t know and the dealership didn’t keep any records of where they acquired the car from. He also couldn’t or wouldn’t call someone to find out.
He didn’t seem motivated to sell the car. Never asked us what it would take to earn our business. Never tried to put a deal together. He said the car had only been there two weeks and he wanted to give it time to sell (funny because we hadnt yet made an offer and probably would have purchased it that day).
I just don’t understand the sales strategy. Don’t understand or appreciate the secrecy. Don’t know why a dealer who works primarily on volume would want to hold onto a car for an undetermined amount of time to capture an extra couple hundred dollars.
Ultimately its a sale lost and a 3-​star review on Unilocal???