Death of a car salesman...
I hate high pressure car salesmen and their bullshit.
We went and looked at a Toyota Yaris on Friday, just on a whim. They pressured us into a test drive and I did really like the car and it was a pretty good deal but when we got back from the test drive they magically realized that the car the manager thought we were talking about wasn't the car he thought we were talking about so of course the $500 price drop he was going to give us was off the table now. Annoying, but we still liked the price and the car and the explanation was reasonable if a little suspect.
Then they kept hounding us to buy it right then, which we did not want to do. We hadn't gone over our finances in any detail and hadn't done much research on the car. In fact, the extent of our knowledge is that Mr.
clemsonfan has one and gives it good reviews, which is not inconsequential but it's not everything either. If I've learned anything from my father it's to never buy the first car you look at, unless you want to end up with a Renault Alliance, will he ever live that car down? Besides, we have a rule between us that we never buy the day we look, we'll come back tomorrow.
Then they wanted us to take it on an overnight test drive which we flatly refused to do. Anybody that would take responsibility for a car that does not belong to them without a rental agreement and appropriate insurance (no, your insurance won't cover it) is taking a big risk.
Assuring us it'd be gone if we didn't buy it right then they proceeded to throw free oil changes, gas fillups and car washes at us all the while claiming there was no markup in the car and that they were losing money on it. Even telling us that they'd give us the money to buy the CD we'd been on the way to Best Buy to purchase and telling us that they weren't going to make any commission... the manager would take the sales guy out to lunch and that'd be about it.
After 25 minutes of wrangling we finally agreed to give them $6 to hold it until today, which was all the cash we had and we left. Why, if it was going to be such a hot seller would they take it off the lot on a Sunday for just $6 you might ask? Good question.
Turns out the car doesn't have the side curtain airbags the guy told us it had (I don't think he was lying per se, I think he just didn't know ie. shouldn't have said anything about it at all), there's something on the papers they gave us about "damage repairs" and they told us it was on sale because it'd been there since September even though the papers show it was a transfer from another dealer the first week of December.
Now I've got to go back to the place and tell them I don't want it and endure the sales pitch again.
Maybe the worst part of the whole thing is that after reviewing our finances we decided that while it would be very tight we could indeed swing the payment but a weekend of thinking about how close we'd be running it has brought us both to the conclusion that we just shouldn't do it. It really sucks when you come to the conclusion that you can't afford the cheapest, smallest vehicle known to man. If my truck had a lot of miles left in it I'd be taking this better, but alas that is not the case.
We went and looked at a Toyota Yaris on Friday, just on a whim. They pressured us into a test drive and I did really like the car and it was a pretty good deal but when we got back from the test drive they magically realized that the car the manager thought we were talking about wasn't the car he thought we were talking about so of course the $500 price drop he was going to give us was off the table now. Annoying, but we still liked the price and the car and the explanation was reasonable if a little suspect.
Then they kept hounding us to buy it right then, which we did not want to do. We hadn't gone over our finances in any detail and hadn't done much research on the car. In fact, the extent of our knowledge is that Mr.
clemsonfan has one and gives it good reviews, which is not inconsequential but it's not everything either. If I've learned anything from my father it's to never buy the first car you look at, unless you want to end up with a Renault Alliance, will he ever live that car down? Besides, we have a rule between us that we never buy the day we look, we'll come back tomorrow.
Then they wanted us to take it on an overnight test drive which we flatly refused to do. Anybody that would take responsibility for a car that does not belong to them without a rental agreement and appropriate insurance (no, your insurance won't cover it) is taking a big risk.
Assuring us it'd be gone if we didn't buy it right then they proceeded to throw free oil changes, gas fillups and car washes at us all the while claiming there was no markup in the car and that they were losing money on it. Even telling us that they'd give us the money to buy the CD we'd been on the way to Best Buy to purchase and telling us that they weren't going to make any commission... the manager would take the sales guy out to lunch and that'd be about it.
After 25 minutes of wrangling we finally agreed to give them $6 to hold it until today, which was all the cash we had and we left. Why, if it was going to be such a hot seller would they take it off the lot on a Sunday for just $6 you might ask? Good question.
Turns out the car doesn't have the side curtain airbags the guy told us it had (I don't think he was lying per se, I think he just didn't know ie. shouldn't have said anything about it at all), there's something on the papers they gave us about "damage repairs" and they told us it was on sale because it'd been there since September even though the papers show it was a transfer from another dealer the first week of December.
Now I've got to go back to the place and tell them I don't want it and endure the sales pitch again.
Maybe the worst part of the whole thing is that after reviewing our finances we decided that while it would be very tight we could indeed swing the payment but a weekend of thinking about how close we'd be running it has brought us both to the conclusion that we just shouldn't do it. It really sucks when you come to the conclusion that you can't afford the cheapest, smallest vehicle known to man. If my truck had a lot of miles left in it I'd be taking this better, but alas that is not the case.