DriveTime Automotive Group reviews

I started this review almost a year ago and I held off but I will submit it now... Management changed my outlook to an extent but most of the cons still stand true. No such thing as a work/life balance. The 4x10 schedule was great but they decided to implement the old schedule way before tax season started and it was more than dead in the store. Management preaches hitting call numbers which leads to low quality calls because the leads for the most part are awful with not in service numbers. Eventually those numbers became your friend to help you reach call targets. The cars that we sold were sub-par just like the lending we provide. It blows my mind how the sales person gets dinged if the customer doesn't make one of their first three payments and it gets repossessed. If anything Bridgecrest should take the hit for allowing us to sale a person who is known to never pay back anything in their life. Change in the pay plan for sales is also ridiculous. Management tries to assure you it is for the better but when you do the math you will make less than you would if they gave back the bonuses and commission from the first sale. The only real advancement possible is if you want to relocate. If you want to survive here understand the clientele and remind yourself that you’ll be as successful as you want. You can make easy money, yes, but be ready to put in over 50+ hours to make $60-70k when that effort could yield you $100k+ in REAL sales opportunities. This is a job for the uninspired who can handle low tier rats who try to drag you down much like their credit and want to benefit off such. Good luck.