Originally Posted by
robincog
And you get up and walk out if you don't like the deal, even after spending hours hammering out what you want. It sucks I know and some dealers base their business on just wearing out customers. I've had dealers agree to something and literally walk back and say we calculated wrong and we need a little more. They were right but I wasn't comfortable with the deal anymore and I just left.
Not directed to you, but just some of the undertones I am reading in the posts. You don't have to call the cc company, the government, the manufacturer, or anything else - just move on. Dealers might suck, but expecting someone else do something is kind of silly. You're the customer.
Plus every vehicle I have ever bought in my life, somewhere early in the whole discussion they asked something along the lines of, "how are you planning to pay for this?"
If you live in a larger city, that's correct. But some of us live in smaller towns, and the alternative dealers for the car we want (especially if it's a nicer import) are a couple hours' drive away, or more. Where I live, if I want a BMW, there's a dealer 5 minutes away...or one 75 minutes away. So contrary to your first paragraph, there might very well be situations in which the customer would (and should) push the issue....
And expecting someone else to do something isn't silly, if they've already agreed to do it.
The one point you've made that I'd agree with is that most dealers seem to ask about method of payment in the conversation. But based on other posts in this thread, that doesn't appear to happen all the time.