Too bad you got a V6, which will only get you the dick.

I'd never drive a Rustang, but I'd have bought that car just to give the guy the sale and commission :)

Sure... one attached to the brake booster... one on each wheel... and uh... one real big one in the engine :)

he's aspiring to be the next Russel Peters.

"you know this bmw has Vtect it gives it a extra 10 horse power"

More pussy then a shitty $500 fox any day

edited: to include the word shitty

So the wife's looking for a minivan - Dodge Caravan, specifically. She has a good idea what she wants; we have the financing in place from our credit union and a set maximum amount we can spend.

So we hit Coquitlam Chrysler, and I swear, this salesdroid musta been fresh outta used-car-salesman 101. He starts talking to me, I point him at the wife. "It's HER van, talk to her." We find one that's a good prospect, but the price is a little high. So he takes us inside to "discuss" it.

And so it starts. "We have X dollars to spend, period, all-in, taxes and everything. If you can't give us that, we're out." "Okay, how about this..." (writes a number down - why can't you just SAY it, idiot?). "No, we have X dollars. Total. No more." "Okay, let me go talk to my manager, see what we can do."

Well that's the sign right there that the games are starting. Before he goes, he drops a stack of paper on the desk. "These are letters from my other satisfied customers, you can read these, you'll see I'm good to deal with!" Uh... right. So off he goes, as we sit there contemplating making a run for the door...

Buddy comes back with, "Well, this is the best we can do." Writes down another number, still too high. It's like, what part of "this is all we have" do you not understand? "Alright, well thanks for your time..." and we stand up. He stops us with, "Okay, okay, let me talk to my manager again, see if we can come down any more." "Look, if you can't do this price, there's no point." "Here, read these letters from my other satisfied customers, I'll go talk to my manager." Right, like by reading these stupid letters we're going to magically get more money.

So off he trundles again... we can see him and another guy standing in the office across the desk from a guy who's obviously the manager, and they're all laughing hysterically. Great, some discussion. Buddy comes back, writes down another number that's STILL too big - and this is only the vehicle price, before the taxes and other shit.

So we tell him nope, sorry, can't do it... and head for the door. He holds the door open for us, and I'm the last one out. He stops me. "Come on back tomorrow, we'll talk, see what we can do." Man this guy is dense! I say, "Don't talk to me, talk to her, this is HER buy. If you can't do our price today, how are you going to do it tomorrow?"

And with that we left, never to return.

^ That sounds totally like my previous car buying experience (except the "letters from satisfied customers" part)... that must be their routine or something.

Like I said, it's something straight out of the Used Car Salesman 101 textbook...

They want a 50% down payment, all because I'm a student.
It's more than what I can make in a fucking year.

No legacy for me.

At least that makes sense.

Not really. If you have the credit, you should be able to get a car. If they're that afraid, they should ask for a cosignor.

Of course, you're always welcome to go to a different dealership, if that one doesn't want your business.

I always wanted, if I won the lottery, to go visit the high-end car dealerships (talking the Jag, Porsche, Ferarri joints here) dressed in my best Saturday casuals - jeans, Metallica t-shirt, work boots - and just see who has the brains to look past appearances. Then go back later, pulling up in whatever stupidly expensive vehicle I end up buying from the most intelligent salesdroid, getting out dressed up to the nines, and giving the salesdroids who dissed me a big ol' razzberry.

Sure it's immature, but when you have that kinda money, you can BE as immature as you want.

Worked for Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman :) "You work on commission, right? Big mistake. BIG. HUGE!"

When I went to Metrotown Mazda with my mom to shop for her 3, there was this salesguy who yelled at us across the lot, he was like "HI DO YOU NEED SOME HELP?" and we said "No, just looking for now thanks" and he yells back his name and says that we should let him know if we need anything. So we go in, and I start showing my mom around the Mazda3, the hatch, how the seats fold down, the console...and then we look up and the guy's just sitting on the trunk of a brand new Miata waiting for us to ask him something.

My mom and I got really creeped out so we went to Wolfe instead. Best choice ever.

Yeah.. maybe he didn't have one... or wanted to be the sole person on the contract. They probably wants 50% just to scare him off.

Not because your a student its b/c you dont have credit build up probably.

Reminds me of a story I heard. Dude worked at a Lexus dealership and kid walks in dressed in cargo pants, sneakers, and a wife beater. No one pays any attention to him c'ept for one guy who was a new sales man. Kid asked to look at the SC400. Next day he came back and bought one for him and one for his sister.

i dont know which is funnier, the "wife beater", or your quote lol

Looking at an Alitima SE for my wife a few months ago. I see an ad in the buysell and theres one at a dealership in White Rock. I go there during the day and look at the car and can't stop thinking it looks familiar. As I'm driving away I'm 90% sure this is the car I had almost bought privatley a few months before except it had a lien on it that the owner didn't disclose and wouldn't remove once it was brought to his attention...

So I go back with my wife that evening to show her the car and to check out the VIN because I had the VIN from the car I had checked out earlier. I chat with the salemen for a big he recognizes me from earlier and tells me the same old bullshit about what a great car it is. I ask if it has any accidents or decs and of course he's like nope, it's totally clean single owner car.

Now I know the car I looked at earlier was not a single owner car, it was an Out of Province and it had an accident over $2000, not major but it did have one. I ask where the car is and he says it's on the hoist getting cleaned? Sure it is, anyway he takes us in the back and points out the new tires (They wern't new they were bald but had tire dressing on them). I smile and knod playing along. I ask for the VIN number since I can't see it with the car on the hoist.

He gets all defensive asking me why I need it? I tell him I want to run a carfax on the car. He tells me you don't need to it's a good car. I lie and say I'm sure it is but I'd like the VIN please. Still being defensive he tells me he has he the carfax. Once again I tell him thats nice but I'd like the VIN. He takes me to his desk and passes me the carfax and says he'll talk to his manager about getting me the VIN....I laugh and say what do you have to hide you said it's a great car. He comes back with the VIN but says he needs my phone number. I ask what he needs that for and he says to give you the VIN....uh ok no problem, I give him the number for a pizza place I normally order from my wife just looks at me and smiles.

He tells me to check out the car fax, he now wants to disclose the accident, he tells me as you can see it's a great BC car. I ask him why it says it's out of province if it's a BC car? uh.......oh it does say that doesn't it? Anyway, I thank him for his time and leave.

Salemen crack me up, there so anoying and so predictable. Whenever I buy new I don't even go to the lot, I call a broker and he sets everything up I just show up and sign the papers.

terrible!

Richmond Honda. I was looking for a 2001 Honda Accord EX 5spd. They had about 5 LX-G 5spd in the lot, so I wanted to test one out since they all drive the same. It took about 10 minutes before the receptionist managed to get a salesman to stop and talk to me...he tells me, I'm really busy, is it a quick question?...I'm like..."well, depends on your answer!"...so I ask him, do you have any 5spd 4 dr Accords here?, and he's like "Nope, don't have any"...so I point to the 5 sitting outside and he goes "oh, those ones aren't the base model"...hmm...I remember asking him about 4dr Accord 5spd...no where did I say base model...I ended up buying one from Pacific Honda in North Van...got the LX-G and the best part was the car was transferred from the Richmond dealership cause they were the only ones who had a 5spd 4dr Accord left in stock.

does anyone remember the story of RS member "sonny" where he went to the luxury dealership across from burrard acura in a t shirt and jeans looking for some high end car, NSX i believe.

he had arrived in his friends audi clunker or something. the sales people refused to even open the doors on the cars to let him sit in one.

apparently "Sonny" retuns the next day in a Ferrari he bought instead from a diferent dealer.

the sales felt quite stupid i imagine.

I read somewhere (I think in a Mercedes mag) that some guy showed up to a Mercedes dealership in jeans on a skateboard. The sales manager actually treated the guy like a real customer, and the guy ended up ordering a Maybach in the end.

Many years ago (summer of '87, I think it was), when I was living up north, my buddy and I were visting Vancouver for a couple weeks, and took a couple afternoons to look at some cars.

The one day, we hit the luxury dealerships on Burrard, just for fun - dressed kinda yuppie-casual, not too fancy but not grubby either. First stop was the Jag dealership - they had a gorgeous brand-new Lotus Turbo Esprit we wanted to check out. There was one guy in the place, sitting in his office, so we asked him if we could check out the Lotus. He took a glance at us, said sure, go ahead, but don't shift the gears... whatever, we sat in it, gave it a good looking over... then asked him how much. He told us (don't remember exactly how much), so my buddy asked if we came and plopped down a briefcase full of cash, if we could just drive it out the door. The guy kinda smiled and said sure... he didn't look like he really believed that was gonna happen, but he was pleasant enough, seemed to recognize that we would LIKE to be serious :)

Next stop was the Porsche dealer, where we were completely ignored.

Final stop was the Ferarri/Alfa store, where we spent a few minutes admiring the Testarossa before being greeted by a friendly lady while looking over a couple Alfas; she was very helpful and treated us as if we were the best customers in the place.

After dinner, I'll tell y'all about the fun we had at the Richmond Auto Mall...

just funny!
 

i was at a dealership in new west and looking around the lot and we walked by a car which was backed completely into another car on a hill, the sales guy looks at it and goes "oh shxt howd this happen" gets in and pulls the handbrake and it pulls straight up. i forgot what cars, cuz it happened a few years ago.