Due to popular demand, here ya go. Please keep it to the lies, and no discussion, to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio and keep the thread interesting. "Like" a post instead of responding to it with single-word replies, please?
Biggest whopper I was told:
You know how dealers love to trap you by stealing your keys after you let them test drive your trade in? I never trade in, so they're thwarted in that tactic.
So after an hour of negotiating with the local scumbag GM dealer who has the vehicle I want, and getting it close to the price I'm willing to pay (about $10500 off of $42K list, well under invoice with rebates), the sales guy needs "approval" for one last demand I had. We wants me to sign a written offer note AND give him a credit card or my license before he will take my offer to the manager around the corner. That ain't happening. No essential documents ever leave my wallet to go out of sight. Not for a purchase offer, not to be copied, not to be "lost". After going back and forth for ten minutes about how the manager won't take my offer "seriously" if I didn't cough up my license, and my accusing them of not trusting my word that the offer is honorably made, the sales idiot comes up with the "big lie" of invoking the government in this transaction:
I need your license because it's a "Homeland Security" regulation.
Like I was about to be groped by the TSA to buy a fucking CAR!?!?!?!?!?
I pounded the table, and DEMANDED he get his manager and the dealership's highest ranking owner's rep into the office RIGHT now or I was walking out and blogging about it.
After a few more minutes of pretty one-sided ranting about unethical invocation of unseen government agents who would not approve of their agency's name being dragged through an invented need at some runty-ass GM car dealership in Carlsbad, CA, I got the Roadiemobile for the price I wanted.
Except for ONE warranty repair (new fan clutch at 33K miles), they never saw the vehicle again.
Biggest whopper I was told:
You know how dealers love to trap you by stealing your keys after you let them test drive your trade in? I never trade in, so they're thwarted in that tactic.
So after an hour of negotiating with the local scumbag GM dealer who has the vehicle I want, and getting it close to the price I'm willing to pay (about $10500 off of $42K list, well under invoice with rebates), the sales guy needs "approval" for one last demand I had. We wants me to sign a written offer note AND give him a credit card or my license before he will take my offer to the manager around the corner. That ain't happening. No essential documents ever leave my wallet to go out of sight. Not for a purchase offer, not to be copied, not to be "lost". After going back and forth for ten minutes about how the manager won't take my offer "seriously" if I didn't cough up my license, and my accusing them of not trusting my word that the offer is honorably made, the sales idiot comes up with the "big lie" of invoking the government in this transaction:
I need your license because it's a "Homeland Security" regulation.
Like I was about to be groped by the TSA to buy a fucking CAR!?!?!?!?!?
I pounded the table, and DEMANDED he get his manager and the dealership's highest ranking owner's rep into the office RIGHT now or I was walking out and blogging about it.
After a few more minutes of pretty one-sided ranting about unethical invocation of unseen government agents who would not approve of their agency's name being dragged through an invented need at some runty-ass GM car dealership in Carlsbad, CA, I got the Roadiemobile for the price I wanted.
Except for ONE warranty repair (new fan clutch at 33K miles), they never saw the vehicle again.