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Smart Shopper Choosing a Dealer - What to Look For
97 messages, Last post on Mar 16, 2009 at 1:54 PM
You are in the Smart Shopper Forum. Your Hosts are kirstie_h & tidester
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Replying to: joel0622 (Mar 22, 2007 1:05 pm) 99.99999999% of the people here would be on this site cranking up the worst experience ever thread talking about how they went to a dealer they bought a car from 6 months ago and the salesmen blew him off blah, blah, all dealers are terrible, blah blah blah, I will never go there again. You would be doing it with good reason, because no one deserves to be treated to that extreme. |
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Replying to: joel0622 (Mar 22, 2007 1:05 pm) That would correspond to 1 person in 10 BILLION. It will take about another 50 years or so before Earth's population reaches that level and probably a bit longer before our membership achieves the same.  tidester, host SUVs and Smart Shopper
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Replying to: tidester (Mar 22, 2007 2:14 pm)  You left out the one key word 99.99999999% of the people here So you and all the other Host go back to your seceret room and continue to talk about us. We got this covered  
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Replying to: joel0622 (Mar 22, 2007 2:21 pm) But we only deal with WHOLE people. tidester, host SUVs and Smart Shopper
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Replying to: tidester (Mar 22, 2007 2:29 pm) Well then you obviously have not read some of the HALF cocked post I have  btw, you all really need a better lol ha ha ha i am just kidding smiley.
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Replying to: joel0622 (Mar 22, 2007 1:05 pm) Consumers talk big but rarely do what they say. Of course they will go there again, all they have to do is sell the car for $50 cheaper than the next dealer. For most consumers its all about price. How else would some of the junk on the market get sold? |
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Replying to: jipster (Mar 22, 2007 10:15 am) I had all day to shop originally. Hadn't found anything I wanted, and that place was my last stop. I could've come back the next day, but that was a Saturday, and the dealership was ~20 miles from my house, and I was tired of being in a rental car (after vehicle totalling). So... it was my decision to say hey, why not - just see if they can wrap the whole thing up in an hour and let me be done with it.
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Replying to: kirstie_h (Mar 23, 2007 11:36 am) Hey I will admit it. Before I got into sales I was the an easy mark. And now I am as easy as they come. I have not negotiated the price on one thing in the last 13 years. After a couple of years in this business I just couldn't do it. I told my wife, "how can I come home on Monday and complain about all the tight asses buying cars and then go on Tuesday and negotiate the price of a TV?" So any of you folks on Commission who sell anything but cars might want to give me a card. If you look up Lay Down in the dictionary there is a picture of me.
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Replying to: joel0622 (Mar 20, 2007 11:38 am) However, $1,000 is a bit extreme. I'd probably try e-mailing dealer C.
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Replying to: bobst (Mar 22, 2007 9:47 am) Washed car, call on my cell phone when it's done (on time, always), name of service person I can call up for questions, and, one time---a new bumper for the one they scratched while the car was on their premises. Not only do I pay extra for these services, I actually tip the service manager $10-$20 bucks. As for that well-dressed young kid with shining eyes, just learning his business, who sold me the car, I've sent him two customers, and so when I call HIM up to help me, he helps me locate a part or answer a question on extended warranty or figure out a deal for a friend on the phone. Of course, this kind of mutually beneficial relationship requires TWO cooperating parties. Yes, you can sometimes be caught casting pearls before swine and so you have to use common sense in dispensing your generosity and trust. Some dealerships are unrehabilitatible and will always go back to the Big House. You cannot cure larceny or laziness just by being nice, but if there is goodwill to be reaped, by all means put in your half and get it done. The dealer is, in fact, your portal to the factory. The dealer is your intermediary. You slam that door shut, or if you contract with a dealer who doesn't accept his responsbility as trusted doorman to your satisfaction, you are essentially screwed for 5 years or 50,000 miles, whichever comes first in its agonizing slowness.
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