Btrfylgrl -- our car shopping experience this weekend -- hope your DH isn't like this
Basically what happened was we wanted to get a couple quotes so we can get a really good deal.
The guy showed us a 2003 Camry for $17,770, it had 11,000 miles on it. We have a trade in and he said that he would give us a $1,000 for us. Now our car is a 97 but its in excellent condition, I was expecting at least $2,000-$2,500 for it. So in the middle of giving us the quote, his phone rings and a 'guy' calls in saying that he shopped around and Toyota Five Town gave him the best deal and he is coming in to pick up his car. Then this sales guy says that this guy just got the last 2004 off the lot because they are selling like hot cakes. That sounded a little weird to me that this guy got the 'last'
2004 Camry on the lot?
So anyway, he wanted us to buy the car right then and there, so we go outside to talk and decide that we are going to tell the guy that we are going to sell our car on our own. He doesnt like that answer so he asks us what the problem is and we told him that we didnt like the amount of the trade, so he bounces it up to $1650. So just to get out of there, we tell him that well go home and get our car so we can do the deal. We just wanted out of there at that point because he was getting too
too pushy.
He then leaves us two messages on our answering machine, the first one asking 'Whats the holdup??' and then the second one saying that he'll give us $2,500 for our car. Hello??!! He didnt even see it and NOW all of a sudden he's going to give us $2,500????
The real kicker is my FIL reads the paper and finds the same car at the same dealership on sale for $13,000!!!!!! They were trying to sucker us in for $4,000 more!!
another discrepancy was that on the car, they posted a profile on the car from kelly's blue book. In the profile, it listed the value as about $18,100. Tonight, we did our own web search on the same site and now the value was about $17,000. So, something is not right.
The big problem is, we just want to go to a few dealerships and compare deals, not get pushed into buying anything. This guy was really really pushy. We kept saying that we wanted to think about it and didn't want to trade our car in and wanted to sell to a private party and the guy WOULD NOT LET US LEAVE. We had to tell him that we were interested and that we would go home and get our car so he could check it out and we could finalize the deal, just so we could get out of there. We even filled out a form so they could check our credit. They must be really desperate because the guy left us 2 messages and called a few other times, which we didn't answer because we knew that it was him.
The guy showed us a 2003 Camry for $17,770, it had 11,000 miles on it. We have a trade in and he said that he would give us a $1,000 for us. Now our car is a 97 but its in excellent condition, I was expecting at least $2,000-$2,500 for it. So in the middle of giving us the quote, his phone rings and a 'guy' calls in saying that he shopped around and Toyota Five Town gave him the best deal and he is coming in to pick up his car. Then this sales guy says that this guy just got the last 2004 off the lot because they are selling like hot cakes. That sounded a little weird to me that this guy got the 'last'
2004 Camry on the lot?
So anyway, he wanted us to buy the car right then and there, so we go outside to talk and decide that we are going to tell the guy that we are going to sell our car on our own. He doesnt like that answer so he asks us what the problem is and we told him that we didnt like the amount of the trade, so he bounces it up to $1650. So just to get out of there, we tell him that well go home and get our car so we can do the deal. We just wanted out of there at that point because he was getting too
too pushy.
He then leaves us two messages on our answering machine, the first one asking 'Whats the holdup??' and then the second one saying that he'll give us $2,500 for our car. Hello??!! He didnt even see it and NOW all of a sudden he's going to give us $2,500????
The real kicker is my FIL reads the paper and finds the same car at the same dealership on sale for $13,000!!!!!! They were trying to sucker us in for $4,000 more!!
another discrepancy was that on the car, they posted a profile on the car from kelly's blue book. In the profile, it listed the value as about $18,100. Tonight, we did our own web search on the same site and now the value was about $17,000. So, something is not right.
The big problem is, we just want to go to a few dealerships and compare deals, not get pushed into buying anything. This guy was really really pushy. We kept saying that we wanted to think about it and didn't want to trade our car in and wanted to sell to a private party and the guy WOULD NOT LET US LEAVE. We had to tell him that we were interested and that we would go home and get our car so he could check it out and we could finalize the deal, just so we could get out of there. We even filled out a form so they could check our credit. They must be really desperate because the guy left us 2 messages and called a few other times, which we didn't answer because we knew that it was him.
