Greetings,
As it turns out, I've been doing some tire-kicking lately.
As such, I've been interacting with car sales-people a bit lately. Sites like CarGuru's, Cars.com, etc. have helped a good bit. Numerous photos, search filters, etc. help dial in your efforts so you're not going from lot to lot to lot, especially if you're looking for specific vehicles. But ultimately, at some point, unless you just order a car sent to your home, you're probably going to be interacting with a car dealer, and in my case, a used car dealer.
Carfax and Autocheck have cut back a bit on the hyperbole/BS, but its still present in many forms.
Just a few...
If you're looking for something they don't have 'Oh, you don't want one of those...they have all kinds of problems...'
'Oh, we paid much more than you're offering (~80+% of their asking price) for this trade in...'
'Oh, we don't have much room to negotiate on this vehicle...'
'Oh that accident on the vehicle history, it was just a scratch'
No problem(s) that we're aware of
This price...today and tomorrow only...
I went to a much-hyped car sales event this weekend at a local fairgrounds. Probably 16-20 rows of cars from various local dealerships. At the central end of each row was about 2-6 sales people practically salivating with all the 'What are you looking for/what can I help you find/etc etc etc.?' There were probably as many, if not more sales people than prospective customers when I was there.
I got past one group of them and then just started cutting between rows half way down, staying away from their little packs at the end.
Truth be told, not really any great bargains...people thinking they were going to find significant discounts because they were at this event would have been mistaken. Perhaps if you engaged in the 1-2 hr. negotiation endurance-contest, you could have worked the price down, but it would have probably taken awhile with the same ol' 'Let me go talk to the manager and/or 'Since I like you, here's the special offer I can make to you today only' routine.
*sigh*
Boss
As it turns out, I've been doing some tire-kicking lately.
We've certainly got our money's worth out of current utility/work/do-everything vehicle, but it's
getting a little long in the tooth, and I'm working to semi-retire it before it suffers a major failure that makes the repair option not a financially sound choice. I want to shop while I'm not in immediate need of something right now and stuck having to make a purchase ASAP for work, etc. Put another way, if I don't like the deal, I can walk off the lot as I have the luxury of time to shop.As such, I've been interacting with car sales-people a bit lately. Sites like CarGuru's, Cars.com, etc. have helped a good bit. Numerous photos, search filters, etc. help dial in your efforts so you're not going from lot to lot to lot, especially if you're looking for specific vehicles. But ultimately, at some point, unless you just order a car sent to your home, you're probably going to be interacting with a car dealer, and in my case, a used car dealer.
Carfax and Autocheck have cut back a bit on the hyperbole/BS, but its still present in many forms.
Just a few...
If you're looking for something they don't have 'Oh, you don't want one of those...they have all kinds of problems...'
'Oh, we paid much more than you're offering (~80+% of their asking price) for this trade in...'
'Oh, we don't have much room to negotiate on this vehicle...'
'Oh that accident on the vehicle history, it was just a scratch'
No problem(s) that we're aware of
This price...today and tomorrow only...
I went to a much-hyped car sales event this weekend at a local fairgrounds. Probably 16-20 rows of cars from various local dealerships. At the central end of each row was about 2-6 sales people practically salivating with all the 'What are you looking for/what can I help you find/etc etc etc.?' There were probably as many, if not more sales people than prospective customers when I was there.
I got past one group of them and then just started cutting between rows half way down, staying away from their little packs at the end.
Truth be told, not really any great bargains...people thinking they were going to find significant discounts because they were at this event would have been mistaken. Perhaps if you engaged in the 1-2 hr. negotiation endurance-contest, you could have worked the price down, but it would have probably taken awhile with the same ol' 'Let me go talk to the manager and/or 'Since I like you, here's the special offer I can make to you today only' routine.
Not my first rodeo, I guess I'm getting old.
Getting to the point where the shine is starting to wear off, and I'll hopefully wind up with something decent in the relatively near future, so I don't have to keep playing these games.*sigh*
Boss