Ngl, the first car lot we went to was pretty....predatory (glad I didn't have to go by myself!)
Ngl, the first car lot we went to was pretty....predatory (glad I didn't have to go by myself!)
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VallariaGreen
My favorite was when I (in my early 30’s), with my fiancé (also early 30’s), went to look at a car and NO EMPLOYEE TALKED TO US. Like they went straight over to my mum (60’s, drove us) and asked what SHE was looking for. When she pointed out we needed the car, they got this sour, disappointed look like somehow we weren’t capable of buying a car? Despite being adults? Car salesmen either A: dismiss you because of age/gender/race/perceived socioeconomic status, or B: shower you with compliments because of the same.
Llywenna
We were looking for a particular type of car, a convertible, and dropped into a car dealers when we were in the city to look at them and also some larger cars and SUV’s. We weren’t dressed formally, jeans and t-shirts and hubby had his usual leather vest and hat on, and the salesman kept steering us back to the smallest cheapest cars on the lot every time we looked at something else. Hubby was getting pissed and was about tell him that between us we made probably five times what he did, or more, and could afford anything we wanted, but we decided to take one of their convertibles for a test drive…the guy insisted on coming with us, like we were going to steal it…his mistake, we tore it to shreds in front of him all the way “who designed this ?” “why can’t you put anything in the trunk with the top down ?” ‘It drives like a wheelbarrow in mud”, etc. We ended up buying a different one we really liked then drove it through the lot and told that salesman in front of his customers that if he’d just sold us what we wanted instead of trying to make us feel like we couldn’t afford it he could have made a nice commission but now we’d be telling everyone we knew not to buy anything there.
Llywenna
You can’t even play one saleman against another around here because they’re all related and the same guy owns half the dealerships.
The only thing we found that worked was bringing in an ad printed from a city a couple of provinces over where the cars were made, pointing out that they wanted almost five thousand dollars less for the exact same model at the dealer’s there, let alone off the factory lot, and that it wouldn’t cost us nearly half of that to fly up and drive home, even counting hotels, gas and meals, and we wouldn’t pay their ridiculous fifteen hundred dollar ‘delivery fee’ picking it up there. The sales manager was so completely shocked that anyone would go out of town to buy anything that he matched the price, provided we didn’t tell anyone he had…but of course we told everyone we could 🙂
Clay Campbell
I was part of a cross city scavenger hunt and one of the things we had to get was business card from a car dealership.
We figured a quick run in grabb the card at the front desk and then get out.
Well that just worked for the first two then they took the the cards away. and we had to get a card from one of the dealers, who wouldn’t give it until after they gave their car speil.
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