Jackson Jambalaya

I'm not surprised at anything that dealership would do.

Everybody comes out happy and looking good, except that slimeball dealer.

This what happens when companies are no longer locally owned.

I’m not getting that “great Mac Haik feeling.”

@9:39AM Mak Haik is from Meridian and went to Ole Miss, so although he grew his dealerships after building on his name in the Houston area, he's practically local. (I'm not defending the dealership here - this seems scummy - but it's not because of some nameless corporate entity.)

Pretty sure Mac Haik playe football at Ole Miss!

Seems dodge should stop providing highly sought after special edition cars to scummy dealers like Mac Haik, that would discourage this type of greedy self dealing. I think I’d be tempted to sue the dealership if they sold my already purchased car to a higher. All the manufacturers should switch to a Tesla style direct to consumer model.

It's like the Mac Haik peacock shit on Barbra Streisand's head, and then the internet found out there's video.



Can't wait to see the delivery by Jay Leno.

10:41

Nice idea but our esteemed legislature already put the kabosh on that idea.

10:41 You are correct along with the Houston Oilers. Now….WTF does that have to do with the story?

Car dealers always have been and always will be crooks. All of em.

Good job to the head of Dodge. Also nice to see so many others stepped up to try and fix it.

Everyone should remember which dealerships added to the MSRP during covid and refuse to buy from them in the future....I certainly won't
Maybe this topic should be it's own thread

This is a microcosm of the car business. Friend of mine signed on to a local dealership's sales force. When he confided to another, veteran salesman at the dealership that he was uncomfortable with what he was being told to do, the old dude told him, "Listen, son. If you're going to sell cars, you need to ask yourself every morning when you get out of bed, 'Who am I going to screw out of a bunch of money today?'" From multiple personal experiences, I believe my friend.

I had the opportunity to keep someone from getting royally f--d by a Ridgeland dealership this week.

The service departments are out of control.

The CEO should have gone further by giving the serviceman victim the car for free, otherwise it is just virtue signaling.

If this was my dealership the first person fired would be the manager. It starts at the top and shit rolls downhill.

"...sold the car out from under AN active-duty servicemember while THEY WERE deployed..."

Not clicking on a website which uses woke pronouns.

And I will point out that those buying airtime in the local market, know that Mac Haik's obnoxious earworm jingle has trained locals to only watch TV with the remote in hand, in order to hit 'Mute', before commercial breaks (even with sneaky segues designed to allow noxious jingles to infect the brain, before people realize commercials are coming). Advertisers KNOW that nobody will hear their commercials, thanks to Mac Haik (OK, and Honda, whose 2-note jingle is equally hated).

"You have to get your product message across, entirely visually, in the Jackson market, because people do whatever it takes, to silence those TVs." This, I heard at a dinner party. One buyer of air time, was coaching a new peer.

But I find it impossible to muster any sympathy for someone who'd buy one of those skuzzmobiles - particularly one with "Demon" in the name. Did I read, "FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR MARKUP" correctly? Frankly, anybody earning enough to pay a 50k MARKUP, should know better than to do so.

One of the more memorable images from 'Great Mobile Homes of Mississippi', was a pic decrying a big yellow street sign, in front of a mobile home, proclaiming, "SLOW CHILDREN". That's the market for those silly "Muscle" cars: little boys who didn't get proper nutrition, and who didn't get enough attention - little boys who grew up to drive the automotive equivalents of the tricked-out bicycles preferred by the little boys you had to teach your own kids not to ridicule.

When the service "advisors" and mechanics get paid on commission, you know you're going to get screwed. I bought an F-150 out of state during covid and paid MSRP. Took it to MacHaik for the three free oil changes and have never been back.

I bought two Challengers and a RAM from those shit heels. I thought buying a car was a nightmare by design for years as a result of it. When I traded the RAM in on a Ridgeline RTL at Bob Boyte Honda just a couple of years ago and had a terrific experience, I discovered that Mac-Haik was a shit show. Fuck those guys.

Thanks for running this KF. Also, thanks to the other commenters who have shed light on Mac Haik. It's helped explain my experience there with their service department. I had no idea "service advisors" were paid on commission. Explains why he wanted to sell me so many "services" I didn't need at such an insane markup. Ended up getting work it did need elsewhere for literally half what Mac Haik wanted. Still had to pay them over $400 just for the diagnostic. Then was told, after declining their "services", that they don't typically work on F150s over 15 years old. Maybe I'm old, but they should stand by their products for life. Anyway, my take away was to never do business with them ever; and never step foot in there again.

12:18 - jealous much?

I saw nothing in the article that indicates the dealer suffered any ill effects from this incident, but hopefully word of mouth will take care of that.

@12:48,

The days of decades worth of manufacturer support for their vehicles ended long ago.

You would probably be better served by finding a skilled local independent shop for a vehicle 15 years old or older. It's not easy to find a skilled independent,

Unless you are a baller customer of the dealership they really don't GAF about keeping you on the road in an older vehicloe. On the other hand, the mechanics with lots of experience may like working on your vehicle as flat rate rewards them for jobs they know inside out and aren't a real PITA like many repairs on the 'new improved' modern vehicles.

Like they say, "Automotive engineers at the OEMs will walk over a thousand naked virgins just to f*ck one technician".



Plus, the only thing the good dealership techs hate more than working flat rate on crappy new vehicles is working warranty claims on crappy new vehicles.

Good ole boy, Cory McDonald, the GM of Mac Haik Flowood,*UPDATE*. They have since disabled the "staff" section on their website so you can't see them anymore. I'm curious why. Pretty detailed video below should help. If interested, search TK's garage on you tube for the full spill.

Clay Edwards, you're always promoting this fine specimen. What are your thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AD6ZpmA6eU

Some sleazy antics from the Sales department, but my experience with the Haik Service department in North Jackson has been much better than anything detailed here. I might buy a car there if they sold cars other than Mustangs, but I don't see that happening. I'll likely trade my Ford in for a Japanese or Korean model.

We have some really crappy car dealers in the Jackson Metro.

I thought I had found a good one and had been an exclusive customer of theirs since 2004. Wife's car, my car, wife's car, my car. On first name terms with the GM.

It was time to trade in my car and they tried to pull one on me. Added $5k to a price that was not only quoted to me the same morning, but the car was listed at on several online sites. When I pointed this out, they came back with the car for the right price, but had reduced my trade in by $5k.

In the GM's defense, he was pissed and apologized but I was annoyed and went to Birmingham to purchase.

12:18 Lighten Up Francis!
Go gather around a cold glass of milk with all your “Cool” friends and brag about how good of gas mileage you get
in the old Family Truckster
You need to remember “There is no replacement for displacement”

Well, imagine that, Mac-Haik of Flowood screwed somebody.
Their standards of practice was formulated by a guy named Ben Dover.

Mac has some serious damage control to address - I hope he is up to it instead of just saying the manager of the local dealership screwed up.

Imagine, the legislators are in the dealerships corner. Figures doesn’t it? Two peas in a pod

Eugene Levy selling Clark Griswold the Wagon Queen Family Truckster is all you need to know about 95% of auto dealer sales people. It can be a brutal experience for naive or first time buyers.

This is terrible. Dealership should be ashamed.

January 5, 2024 at 12:18 PM
How far off the right wingnut cliff are you? "Woke" because "THEY" was used? This is common usage when one is not at liberty to disclose another's identity.

And you sound like a disgruntled advertising salesperson who did not get a buy!

Direct to consumer model can't get here soon enough.

Take it from someone who represents consumers in these types of disputes: there is a reason that there is a stack of papers a foot high loaded with fine print and arbitration clauses (no jury trial) for the transaction documents. I just bought my wife a Volvo from the local dealership and they tried to stick us into commercial arbitration rules in the closing documents. Which would mean we would have to pay $2,000 and half of the arbitrator fees just to bring forward a dispute.

What you were told does not matter. The only thing that matters is what is in the agreements you sign or electronically sign. Read every word.

How does someone in the military afford a $90,000 car?

Only thing worse than a used car salesman is a new car salesman.

Thanks for bringing these slimeballs out for consumers to avoid KF. This is a newsworthy story but I’m sure the local channels are too scared to cover it due to the annoying commercials they run. They have that great mak haik feelin.

I seriously would like to hear what clay edwards says about the guy that he has been constantly promoting on his radio show. The now former GM of mak Haik of flowood. I mean at least make a statement. You talk about being upfront and is what it is. Is it?

@ anonymous asking about how someone in the military being able to afford the insane mark up price for the car, I would Imagine most people in the military probably couldn’t afford to buy a car that expensive but there’s many factors that go into that. Depending on where the service member resides cost of living can be far cheaper or far more expensive than other areas, & the pay or compensation earned by those in the military is the same regardless of local cost of living. Those involved in this situation seem to live in the Mississippi area which has a pretty low cost of living. A soldier in a place like New York would be paying multiple times more in regular expenses compared to a soldier in Mississippi.
We also don’t know which branch of the military they(yes “they”, in response to the commenter who got angry about the choice of pronouns used, because it could be a man or a woman) work in, or their rank, or their age, or their family background.
They could be a career service member, the longer the career the higher the salary, or they could be serving in a branch that’s typically on reserve allowing them to work an additional & possibly more lucrative job. It’s also possible they have been saving for years, or have a spouse with a high income, or they could be from or married into a wealthy family.

Without a whole bunch of additional information it’s impossible to know really how/if they can afford this over priced vehicle.

How could direct to consumer sales (eliminating dealer requirement) happen after the RINO State Legislature passed a bill banning that? That is, they passed a bill preventing TESLA (owned by Elon Musk) from selling directly so that George Soros-owned (his fund bought McLarty Group that had bought Grey Daniels) Grey Daniels, the LARGEST dealer network in that state, was protected. Our folks are sending money to Soros and no one will bat an eye, cuz their brother works there and, gosh, it's just capital and you ain't a commuhnist are you? Well, what is Soros? This is in the record. https://www.autonews.com/article/20151109/RETAIL/311099939/soros-invests-in-u-s-dealership-group https://fortune.com/2015/01/29/why-george-soros-warren-buffett-and-bill-gates-want-auto-dealerships/

Yet folks here howl about a person buying over price a limited edition car? I don't get it.

You have China owning 88 acres of farmland, but they howl about that and ignore Bill Gates being the largest holder of farm land in Mississippi (17000 acres). He wants us to eat bugs instead of meat as he dines with the filthy rich and is a leftist.

No, you don't have a local owner because Billy Bob went to OM and played fewtbawl there decades ago.

And you don't have honest conservative elected officials because they say they are Republican and conservative (look at toll road approval, this car dealer protection bill for Soros, etc, etc)

And he still wanted the car? Hope he has somewhere to get it serviced.

Get one of your grandchildren to teach you how to 'Google' (used as a verb). Bring up Mac Haik lawsuits in Texas and spend an hour reading.

Haik came to Madison County six years ago dressed in all black from head (seriously) to toe. Demanded, and got, all manner of special treatment regarding county ordinances. It helped that his attorney was Herring. Herring was also the Board president's attorney.

From Madison County, he spread out in an ongoing attempt to control the entire market area.

There are two possibilities: Haik either THINKS he is Elvis Presley or Haik IS Elvis Presley.

Set, hut, Haik! Don't fuck with Haik.

www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2019/04/19/mac-haik-truck-lowes-woman-steals-back/3508679002/

https://www.ncconsumer.org/news-articles-eg/dont-be-too-hasty-to-agree-when-a-car-dealer-service-department-recommends-services.html

Will Mr Edwards cover for his homeboy or will he admit this was a lot of “FAFO”? Guess we’ll find out Monday.

Macy Hanson - You neglected to tell us whether or not you signed the arbitration agreement. If one declines, does the dealer thank them for their visit to the showroom?

@7:04. How someone affords something is no one's business. My dad had a saying: "Never try to count another man's money." This person could have saved, inherited, or won a lottery. Or maybe he just financed a car like most of us do.