kazanas christos Avoid at All Costs!
Got sent to Jim (owner of Origin Finance Oakleigh) by a mate because he speaks Greek. Apparently, that was supposed to make sorting my car finance easier. Yeah, nah. The only thing speaking Greek did was turn this disaster into a Greek tragedyâwithout the gods to save me.
Picked out my car on the 25th of February, sent Jim everything he asked for straight away. My creditâs solid, I run a business, and this shouldâve been approved in a week, tops. But Jim? Jim operates in reverse dog years or some mystical time zone the rest of us donât understand. First thing he told me?
âWonât take more than a week or so.â
Yeah, right. That was a month ago.
Had to keep chasing him because every time I called for an update (which I shouldnât have had to do in the first place), he was âbusyâ and promised to call me back. Never happened. If I had a dollar for every time Jim said heâd call me back, I wouldnât have needed the finance in the first place.
Instead of asking for all the documents upfront like a normal person, Jim kept coming back every single day with a new request. Always had an excuse:
⢠Blamed the finance company.
⢠Blamed his rep.
⢠Blamed the loan assessor.
⢠Blamed my accountant.
⢠Blamed the alignment of the planets, for all I know.
At some point, I was just waiting for him to tell me it was my fault for being born under the wrong star sign.
For two weeks straight, he told me Iâd be picking up my car âtomorrow.â Instead, it was always some new surprise, some mysterious issue, some document he magically forgot to mention at the start. The only thing less reliable than Jimâs timelines is Melbourne weather.
And the best part? After waiting a full month, Jim sends an email saying:
âJust to give you an update on where we are at with this file.
I am no longer prepared to work on this file due to the constant calls/text messages/disrespect that this has gone through.â
Are you joking?
Mate, the only âdisrespectâ here is wasting an entire month of my time and then dumping the file like itâs my fault for expecting him to actually do his job.
And just to rub salt in the wound? He made me get insurance while I was still waiting. Paid for two weeks of insurance on a car I didnât even have yet. Basically paying rent on an imaginary vehicle.
Iâve got all the screenshots to prove it. If anyone wants a laugh, hit me up. Apparently, I canât post them because they contain âpersonal information.â But in reality, the only personal thing about this is the headache Jim gave me.
Bottom Line
If you need car finance, do yourself a favour and go literally anywhere else.
Oh, and Jim, mate, if youâre reading thisâmaybe spend less time playing hide and seek with your clients and more time actually getting things done. Or at least take a few courses in lying convincingly, because âtomorrowâ clearly isnât your strong suit.
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