Silly car dealer games....

[GodBlessTheUSA]

Something that has always bothered me is that until a car has been titled to a buyer, it's considered "new".

Last time I had to have a vehicle serviced (it required dropping the K-member) I was given several loaners over a period of three days, all of which were "new".

We found evidence that one van had been driven to Orlando AND Hilton Head by employees of the dealership. One girl even left her pay stub and bank stubs in the glove compartment. Those few thousand miles weren't test drives, the dealership uses those puppies like personal vehicles.

Also, we went camping once at a state park, and the family beside us were pulling their mega-camper with a "new" truck from a dealership. The man worked there and figured it was fine to take a "new" truck and use it for the holiday weekend.

Think the use / misuse / abuse ever gets reported to the buyer??

 

[Gimmeguns]

Via mileage I would think.

 

[95gAtl]

Heard good things about Akins Ford in Winder. I haven't been.



Check out their website.

 

[InTune]

I have bought my last few cars the week between Christmas and New Years and found they are much more eager to deal.

Might be a good strategy. I bought a new truck on Christmas Eve once. I made an offer and he said ok. And this was on a truck that had to be ordered. Eager to make a sale and go home.

 

[jeep78]

Tell them to suck the nitrogen out of the tires, credit you the amount they charge and put ol' American Air back in the tires.

Tell them you will only accept factory air, no aftermarket air acceptable.

 

[1gunsnotenough]

Sales guy ask me "What kind of payment I was looking for"? I told him I wasn't looking for a payment I am looking for a truck. DUH.... They realy say some stupid stuff....

I had a salesman ask me that. I told him to start at zero and we would go from there.

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

Jason at Jeff Smith has been fun to deal with. They shot a number at me and I shot one back. He went to "the sales manager" and came back with "the we can do that." I may yet buy one from him. No hurry here.

As it get closer to the last week of the month they will start calling you non stop morning to night.

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

I did a deal on Christmas Eve one year. I've never seen a salesman and sales manager as hungry as those 2 were. Their dealership was supposed to close at 6pm that evening. We walked out with a helluva deal about 8:30 that night. Everyone else had gone home hours earlier.

Funny thing was, we were in no hurry to buy and were prepared to walk at 5:30 that evening when the deal wasn't looking too good....

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I sold a new 06 Eclipse to a nurse on Christmas Eve of 05. She was shocked that we would be open on Christmas Eve. I told her that the owner of Macon Mitsubishi was a Muslim from Pakistan and didn't give a damn about Christmas or his employees. It was all about the dollars.

 

[palmettomoon]

I looked at a really nice Ford Lariat 4 by 4 white gold with the camel interior last night at Butler in Milledgeville. Sticker price $59,000. Ouch.

 

[spencer60]

I've found I'm a lot better at helping other folks buy cars than I am buying them for myself.

I've helped a friend and an (ex now) girlfriend get really good deals on cars just because it's not for me and my one condition to them was that if I say we walk away, we do.

For my own cars, I tend to buy ones I fall in love with, and that's a crappy way to negotiate.