Eli, I want a new car maybe I can take you with me to look at cars. I loved your last post! :laughing3:
RedTide: If you're a car dealer, I apologize before I write this post. As in all walks of life, there are good people and then there are shitbags. You may not know me but I know of you and have only the utmost respect for you. This is only my experience and if you are a car salesman you're probably one of the good ones but my experiences give me a bad taste in my mouth and make me defensive with all of them including the good ones.
I bought an Infiniti G35 4door Sport in 2008. As I was shopping for it, my co-worker tells my wife and I that her husband was the sales manager at a local Infiniti dealership and told me to meet with him. He did the usual that most car salesman do. He smiled and tried to charm his way. He gave me his "word" that he would take care of me and would give me the "best" deal because I was a friend of his wife.
Unfortunately for him, smiles and charm don't mean anything to me. I did what I usually do and emailed 5 local Infiniti dealerships on a Monday. I told them that I would be purchasing a car by Saturday and said that whoever gave me the best price by Friday at 5pm would win. All dealerships were included on the same email and all fought for the business.
After all was said and done, the sales manager who was the husband of a co-worker of mine. The same person who gave me his "word" and who said he'd get me the "best" deal only hesitantly matched the best offer I got because I told him that I was dissapointed that he didn't take care of me like he said he would. Like he "gave me his word" that he would. He matched it but gave me an ultimatum that the offer was only good until that Saturday. I politely told him to go F himself and bought the car elsewhere. I felt bad because my wife and I loved his wife and thought only the most of her, but her husband unfortunatelywas nothing like her. (I guess opposites do attract lol)
Sorry, every car I've bought is new and most salesman are shitbags.
The only positive experience I had was at Acura of South Florida where an older gentleman sold my brother and I brand new cars. He gave us a price and told us we wouldn't find it anywhere else. He was right. Kudos to him. We bought two cars and sent 5 more friends to buy cars from him.
Not all car salesman are shitbags but most have been in my experience.
Just like the dealerships that put decals on the cars with their dealership name, or the license plate frame holder with the dealership name. I tell them to take that sh*t off unless they're going to pay me to advertise for their dealership. I feel my blood boiling so I'm going to stop writing lol