Global Motors

HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE, DEALER FRAUD, BEWARE!!! This review is to warn people about Global Motors & about the owner/​salesman Israel Ramos, in particular.
Pre-​Purchase: On their website, the price of the car was listed as $ 4500. The pictures on the website were horrible quality, but the description said excellent condition. When I started phone negotiations with Mr. Ramos, he assured me the car was an excellent deal. Just as I was about to close the deal, he told me he was going to charge me an ADDITIONAL $ 695 in «dealer fees»! Some quick internet research told me that dealer fees (any fees that are not included in the advertised price of a used car) are ILLEGAL IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA. I called him back with the info I had amassed & he started screaming at me. Literally screaming into the phone, he said «It’s my dealership, you want it, you pay the fee! You know what? Someone just walked into the lot and put a deposit on that car. It’s not available anymore!» and hung up the phone. I was shocked at this abusive, threatening behavior. I knew he was lying, so I decided that I would buy the car & pay the dealer fee anyway, and later take him to court over it. So I called him a few hours later. Sure enough, the car had not been sold. I told him I was still interested in buying the car, & that I had hired the services of an auto inspector to come look at the car the next morning, before finalizing the transaction.
Next day, the inspector called me and told me the car had a busted transmission, which would cost me $ 2−3K to fix on my own dime! I confronted Mr. Ramos with this information, & he claimed he had «no idea» anything was wrong with the car. He eventually agreed to reduce the sale price by a few hundred dollars.
During Purchase: Mr. Ramos asked me to pay by making a bank transfer into his personal bank account. Alarm bells immediately went off. I said that was out of the question & that he would have to accept payment through a more secure method. After all, if I made a $ 4500+ bank transaction to his personal account, he could later claim it was just a present from me! So he sent me an invoice for the transaction via Paypal & faxed me a bill of sale containing his signature. I paid up immediately & signed the bill of sale. The car was now mine. 30 minutes later, he called and said that Paypal had charged him a $ 130 seller protection fee, and he wanted ME to give him another $ 130, or else he was not going to release the car from his lot!!! This goes against Paypal’s user agreement, and is grounds for suspension or cancellation of one’s account. At this point I was angry enough that I called the Hialeah Police Dept, and they advised me that they would send someone to the dealership the next day (since this was after hours for the dealership.) I called Mr. Ramos back and notified him of this, and immediately his tune changed to «Let me think about it & call you in the morning.» He called me next morning & said if I paid half of the fee, $ 65, he’d release the car to me. I felt violated, but wanted the drama over, so I agreed. I asked him to fax me an invoice for this additional $ 65 & he refused! Probably because he knew this was documented proof against him. He told me I was «asking for trouble», but eventually, I paid with my credit card, over the phone, & was faxed a receipt for the $ 65.
After Purchase: I hired an auto transport company to move my car from FL to VA. Mr. Ramos had told me that the car title would be sent along with the car, on October 29, 2012. I received the car on October 31, 2012, MINUS the title! I called Mr. Ramos, and he gave me a cock-​and-​bull story about how he didn’t have the title, and had to order it from some mysterious third party (he refused to tell me who this third party was!), and that I would receive it in the mail by Nov 2,2012. I called him again on Nov 5,2012, and told him I still hadn’t received my title, and he said it had been lost in transit, and had to be reissued, and would take another 10 days to reach him, and then a few more days to reach me! So now, I have a car that I can’t drive, can’t insure, can’t even park in my own parking lot, since they won’t issue me a parking permit without registration!
Worst of all, the car arrived with scratched & dents that mysteriously appeared between the time that the inspector inspected it on Oct 27 & when the driver picked it up on Oct 29!
I have contacted the Florida Attorney General’s office, and been advised to fill out a formal complaint with them, as well as an affidavit with with Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, so they might revoke his dealer license. I have also opened a claim with Paypal to recoup my money. If you would like documentation to support this, PM me through my Unilocal profile. If you or someone you know bought a car here & paid a dealer fee, contact the Florida Attorney General’s office! You can get your $ 695 back!
THIS GUY IS A BULLY, A FRAUD AND A THUG!
DO NOT GO HERE! SPREAD THE WORD!