Lesson Learnt

[careyk]

The other day as I was walking home from my mechanic...i was passing the Chrysler Dealer and decided I would pop in to see what was in the showroom...As I entered there were 2 SRT8 Challengers with 6speed pistal grip manual shifters.....one was B5 blue a very rare colour for 09 and the other was Hemi Orange.....out of curiosity and I guess my own stupidity...I asked a salesman what the price/s was/were? Well I guess i should of stopped right there....he made me sit down at his desk, ask me a million questions, took my phone number etc etc etc.....I cooperated but said I just am curious what they are selling for......well he went on to tell me the price will be worked out when everything is on paper and put to the manager.....I said....can't you just tell me what the approximate selling price on the cars was? Finally he said around 52000$....for the black one outside and more for the orange as it was a discontinued colur and even thousand/s more for the blue as it was very rare...less than 200 made. .................Well in the past 2 days the salseman has left 3 yes 3 messages on my machine asking me to call him back...I finally got so fed up of his aggressive pursuing and non stop calls that I phoned the manager and told him to tell his salesman that his constant calls were annoying the piss out of me and to give him the meesage I am not interested and if I was I would call him on my own or after the 1st message. I will never give my phone number again.....this was stupid on my part.

[careyk]

Just curious how about everyone post a story of a dealer/ salseman/ problem story?

[Teeter]

I was looking online at different new cars and put in my e-mail address for a particular make. I got about 30 e-mails in 2 days from the local dealership (not nearly as annoying as a phone call, but...) I e-mailed them that I had bought something else and haven't heard from them again, since.

[cruserdad1976]

drooped the wife's van off at the dealer to be serviced and was looking at a couple cars on the floor the salesman almost attacked me I told him i was just drooping off the wife's van he was like we can trade you know????? really a car dealer that will trade say it aint so

[808]

[This is slightly around the subject of the thread - True Story]

When I was in Biology class in college, our teacher was explaining to us the necessities that make a living thing alive (I recall oxygen, reproduction, and water). One of my classmates tells the teacher that a rock can be a living thing. The teacher laughs in disbelief and asks him to explain himself. Then my classmate says, "Well, a rock can live in oxygen without any problems, then the rock reacts to water by getting wet, and when it breaks, it reproduces." My teacher then laughs and says, "You, shouldn't be in here...you should become a car salesman."

[quicksilverdon]

I'll tell how I bought my '02 PT....
I went on Chrysler website, picked out all my options, put in zip code, and got all the dealers within 50 miles.
I then sent the same eamil to about 6 dealers, asking for a price for thw PT as I specified.
3 said I had to come in and talk, I said not with out a price.
The others gave prices that spanned $1,000 from high to low.
I printed out the email from the lowest, drove over, showed the email, and they said, "yup", and I bought the car.
It's the way to go....

I went back to same dealer for my '05.

[03GTCruiser]

I always give an old phone number and the only way I'll give you my SSN is if I am ready to complete business. I don't see what a credit check has to do with the price of the car you're selling.

I've given my number in the past and was harassed to no belief with the salesperson even screaming at me why I waisted their time if I didn't want to buy the car right now... yeah screaming at me after YOU called ME? you can just guess how well that went. I'm 6'1 290lbs and German. Yup you guessed it. I went there in person to speak with the salesperson and then their manager. That's why if I want to go look at a car I go with the LeBaron. They really just think that I'd be a waist of time since I'm just driving an 88 chrysler.

[careyk]

well no more calls from that salseman....hopefully he is bugging somebody else