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Replying to: driver100 (Nov 30, 2008 12:05 pm)  You confused me. If he would had said that to me that's how I would have responded. And if he walked away making one of those hand gestures I would have said "Have a nice day too. Don't let the door hit you in the ass." I guess I wouldn't last much in car sales huh? 
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Replying to: traindriver (Nov 30, 2008 12:06 pm) In that case he should have said: "Based on my reasearch a car like this should sell for $xxxx.xx Yours is overpriced in mho." and go from there. Alex could have come back with: "I might be able to lower the price provided the car meets your expectations and you will consider buying it." |
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Replying to: isellhondas (Nov 30, 2008 12:56 pm) |
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Replying to: isellhondas (Nov 30, 2008 12:56 pm)
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Replying to: rogeliov (Nov 30, 2008 6:49 pm) It could very well have been priced so high that the customer might have thought that he could not have negotiated a reasonable price. Until we get more information on the car and its price we can't say for sure. A few years ago when Suzuki came out with the SX4 someone was on one of these boards praising the car. So I thought I would drop by the local Suzuki dealership to get a look at the car since we were discussing it. Believe it or not on a $16K Suzuki they had a $4K ADM on it. If I were interested in the car I would have looked at that and walked away. Just way to much difference between what I would have paid for the car and what they were asking. Why go into a negotiation that I knew had little chance of resulting in a deal? This could have been a situation like that. |
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Replying to: snakeweasel (Nov 30, 2008 8:47 pm) Don't assume things are the way they appear to be.
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Replying to: rogeliov (Dec 01, 2008 12:42 am) If the price came down THAT quickly, I'd guess that car wasn't that hot to begin with. A good example would be a 2009 ZR-1 Corvette which has a MSRP of $103K. IF you can find one you could tell the salesperson that you won't pay ADM in which case they could really careless if you bought it or not as someone will. Similarly with a Nissan GT-R.
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Replying to: rogeliov (Dec 01, 2008 12:42 am) |
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Replying to: rogeliov (Nov 30, 2008 6:45 pm) OK no problem, I thought you were critisizing my openning pick up line. Actually your line might work. I once managed a catalogue showroom store where people wrote their orders on a piece of paper, then waited for 20 minutes to be told the product was out of stock. I think some people enjoy being abused and actually like being treated like crap, so you might have something there Rogey.
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Was watching NBC evening news Sunday and just before there was an ad for GM Impalas at employee cost less $3000. You could get a new Impala regular $23,000 for $14,000!!!!!!! The next commercial was for Ford and you could get a new Ford for employee pricing less $1500 gets you a Ford F150 for undr $24,000> When do they start giving them away?
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