I've had problems with Germain before too. They tried selling me a 98 TA. The driver side front finder looked like it had a huge dent beat out with a hammer, the driver side window motor was broke, the fuel gauge didn't work and it had 80K on it. When they called me up to look at it they said it was in amazing condition and would give me a great price.
I get there and see all this shit that's wrong with it. Then he tells me this great price is $9,500. I asked if he was going to fix the things that were wrong with it and he said they've already put $3k into it and will lose money if they put more into it. So i laughed and told him $4,000, he laughed. I left. I get a call 2 hours later and the said $8,000. I said $4,000. They said they can't so i told them not to call back.
Pretty similar situation to yours