Car salesman have no respect for people who just want to make the best deal instead of just walk into the dealer, drop down a stack of cash and take the car away.
I have had enough with those jerks (I am sure not every single one of them are like this). I finally decided I will buy my next car online.
You have to deal with car salesman there, too. BTW.. I hate them also, never ever have I felt like I was dealt with honestly with any of 'em. For a little help (and there's plenty of places to find it, this is just one) try http://www.consumerreports.org/main/home.jsp. Not so much for their car ratings, but how to handle the deal end of things.
Yeah, I am now buying for a new car. Those car salesmen must have been living in a cage for years. They still believe the over all consumers still know very little. They have forgotten how smart people have become nowadays ever since the internet has become so popular. Knowledge and information floating everywhere and free to get.
That particular car salesman treated as if I know nothing about my choices, he treated me as if I don't know what I am dealing with. I propobly did more online research than he ever did about that car I looked at that day.
They should wake up and stop hiding under their desk.
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Come on, give em a break, where else can you go and be as rude as you want to someone, not give them your name ,not to mention tell them you want them to work for free and give you superior service for as long as you have the product. Don't get me wrong I'm not a car salesperson but they are people too with families just like you and me, and todays buyers are better informed than years, back but instead of trying to get your best price by telling them how they are going to sell you a car (and believe me it will cost you in the long run) get that car off the internet!. but remember this...SERVICE..try and get that from the guy off the internet or from your local dealer they know where you bought it and when, that same computer you have, guess what? so does the dealership.
I once purchased a Ford Ranger S. The female salesperson declared that the engine was fuel injected. I had the hood open at the time and was looking at a standard carb. I needed no further information from her.
Hello Tabaqui! Well, I have nothing really against them. It's just their attitude sometimes that drove me angry.
For the last experience I had with them (few days ago), he started a stupid reasoning debate with me as soon as I show signs of not interested in the deal and willing leave the dealer. It's absolutely unnecessary.
Hey Doc. I was in Spokane that day when I was visiting the dealers.
Well, there's your first problem. I wouldn't buy a car from a dealership in Spokane if the trunk was full of weed, the glovebox was filled with blow, and the seats used $100 bills instead of leather... OK, so I might think about it, but I would think for a long time.
Maybe head down to Lewiston and see what they have down there.
Car salesman are fun to play with. You go on to a lot and when you see them coming you just keep walking fast through the rows of cars and make them chase you. In Vegas in the summertime when it's about 110 degrees, it's even better. Just tell them you want to get a vehicle before you declare bankruptcy and they will leave you alone. (lol)
I agree they would be fun to play with IF I have the time to do so. But see, while "playing" with them, it also wastes my time at the same time. And right now, I just need to buy the car I want, fast and easy.
Being raised by the ultimate car saleman. He owned two dealerships. Having sold my first car at the age of thirteen. (the dealership was Union and Dad didn't like the fact that he was shutdown on the third day of a three day weekend.) I was the only one around to take the customers on a test drive. We sold seven cars that day. "We" being taken with a grain (pound) of salt. The Union salesmen decided they would work the three day weekends after that. This was almost forty years ago. Things change. T.O. men were introduced. That's take- over men. The "lineman" was the one that was supposed to "land" a "Flake" on a product and make him or her commit to any price. $1,000 for a $4,000 automobile was not out of the equation. Question: If I 'could' get you this automobile for $1,000 'today' would you buy it? From the $1,000 commitment the customer would be "Bumped" to the $4,000 selling price by the take-over man. Most of the time it would be done by "busting" the client off the actual price and "Landing them on a payment". In other words, 'what can you afford a month.' Which we knew after they filled out a credit application within fifteen minutes, thirty years ago. So, with computers and the mainstayers on this site who seem to be paranoid I grant them their paranoia. Someday when you drive up to a dealership, your license plate will be scanned and they will know the registered owner and the legal owner and the amount you still owe on your car before they even talk to you. I'm not even going to say that every payment you were late on will be revealed because we all know that.