One of the service writer tricks that used to piss me off was when I would take in a cheap car in trade and often times I already had someone looking for that kinda car. But THEN they would run that trade through service and pencil **** it to death. Most of the time a car like that needs fluids checked or changed and maybe tires. But by the time service gets done with it they've slapped another $2K worth of bull**** onto the cost. Then my "Cheap Trade" that I was gonna sell cheap and STILL make money has doubled in price. So then your CASH car costs more than most cash car customers have on hand. Which means they need it financed BUT nobody is gonna finance it usually due to age and miles. So you still have a cash car sitting on the lot that nobody has enough cash to buy. And if they did have the cash that ain't the car they want. So after it sits around a few months a wholesaler buys it for less than I would have sold it for and somehow the lot owner sees that as good. Meanwhile all the bull**** the service guy did to the cheap car came out of the lot's budget. It makes no sense at all.
