Somebody's got to rethink the car dealership model

Insert a picture of the truecar guy here.

Boy, if only there was an alternative like TrueCar.

Only OT poors go to the lot. I got my 2018 Tahoe fully customized online.

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Instead it's rounds of "let me go talk to my Manager."

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I haven't had any experiences like that with my last several purchases. The proliferation of internet sales has made that pretty obsolete IMO. It's fairly easy to research what a good price for a new vehicle is and obtaining it without ever setting foot in the dealership.

I would like to see a system where salesmen are eliminated altogether. Instead the dealership would have some specialists (like at an Apple store) who walk around and answer any questions you have. I'm talking people educated in mechanics and familiar with the cars...Salesmen usually don't know crap about the cars they are selling. Then when you're ready to buy, you sit down directly with the person you negotiate with. Not a "wait 10 minutes while I go talk to my Manager" situation.

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'm talking people educated in mechanics and familiar with the cars...Salesmen usually don't know crap about the cars they are selling.

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my biggest issue.

ford guy in shreveport told me ford doesn't make a 6.2L v8

I told him to leave me alone.

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I would like to see a system where salesmen are eliminated altogether. Instead the dealership would have some specialists (like at an Apple store) who are there to answer any questions you have. I'm talking people educated in mechanics and familiar with the cars...Salesmen usually don't know crap about the cars they are selling. Then when you're ready to buy, you sit down directly with the person you negotiate with. Not a "wait 10 minutes while I go talk to my Manager" situation.

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Why the y obsession with the "apple store" model. I'd rather put a bullet in my head than have to go to an Apple store. Even with an appointment it takes forever to accomplish anything.

Not to mention, how are you going to make that comparisonthat when new car dealers have to take trade ins? There isn't very much comparable between car dealers and Apple stores.

I feel like having internet salesmen for each dealership has cut down on this BS.

Tell them what you want, see what the lowest price is, compare with others in the region - done.

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What I am saying is that the whole car buying process needs to go back to the drawing board

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For what you're suggesting to work, there;d have to be many more decision makers to be available to the customers. I don't think it's particularly feasible.

One way that might help would be if you limit the options on vehicles so they aren't as many prices and values they need to keep up with, but who would really want that?