re: Dirty Car Dealer Tricks

I got service at a dealer one time years ago; it might have been a Toyota dealer. Everything was fine until they asked me to review the invoice before running my credit card. I did a quick scan of the numbers in the ones column and they did not add up to the total invoice amount’s ones digit; the total was a few cents more than it should have been. This was a computer printout. I asked and the cashier was baffled. They re-totaled the invoice and it came out correctly so I paid and left.

I’ve thought afterwards how pennies add up and it was probably a sleazy way to add a few dollars to their bottom line every day.