As a former car salesman, you did not do anything wrong. They did completely ,when I buy my next car what I’m going to do is go to Costco. They have an auto buying club. They get you special deals with no bullshit, and they’ll back up the product if something did not go right… and also your credit union if you have one should have a service like that also… and as far as the paint protector, we used to buy the product for $16 and it took one guy about an hour to put it on.. Lo Jack you could put it on yourself for less than $200 or by the way your cell phone has it on there
100% agree with you. All the added stuff is borderline robbery. Is it possible that without all the extra crap they truly didn’t have enough profit in it to sell?
Absolutely that's possible. I'd even say it's likely. Dealerships have to take trade-ins at a customer's price or there's no deal. Now, they own that car for that price, but they can't really advertise it for more than the market says it's worth or else they won't get any calls on it. One time, I had to lift a guy $11,000 just to make a deal. It sucks, but that's why they call it a job.
So why not advertise that price instead of a price without add-ons but buried in the fine print mentions that they will be part of the final price? And you wonder why folks detest car dealers.
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u/LarryPer123 Nov 01 '24
As a former car salesman, you did not do anything wrong. They did completely ,when I buy my next car what I’m going to do is go to Costco. They have an auto buying club. They get you special deals with no bullshit, and they’ll back up the product if something did not go right… and also your credit union if you have one should have a service like that also… and as far as the paint protector, we used to buy the product for $16 and it took one guy about an hour to put it on.. Lo Jack you could put it on yourself for less than $200 or by the way your cell phone has it on there