re: Your Most Insulting Car Salesman Story?

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. I told him if we arrived there and anything changed that my wife (no pics) would be pissed and it would take 12 Clydesdales to her off of him.

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But why Clydesdales?

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I walked into the Ford dealership after work one day. Full suit and tie (back when that was normal office wear).

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this reminded me of a post in the most embarrassing story thread from a few years ago. Someone went to buy their first car and wore a suit for the occasion and brought his mom. He maybe asked a few questions, and based on what he asked the salesman told him he needed to just let his mom handle everything for him, so he sat in the waiting area in his suit while his mom negotiated the car purchase for him

The type of people that some of these car dealerships hire as salesmen are highly questionable.

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GM branded vehicles have a huge advantage in luring us as a repeat customers because we found a good dealership staffed with good people. And they are getting our business for service too because they've built that kind of trust with me.

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That's how our family is with Yokem in Shreveport. They've gotten 4 cars from them in the last 10 years.

Aside from that, I just use large dealers in large markets and negotiate everything through email. Audi Dallas and Beck and Masten GMC have been good to me so far.

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Your Most Insulting Car Salesman Story?

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This definitely sounds like a CSB or not true but I feel like I pulled this off as well as I could to make them look pretty foolish.

Leased a Jeep. The very next day, the dealership called me back and said there was issues with the contract I signed and they needed me to come in and resign it. Red flags are obviously going off. I know now I likely should have just said thanks but no thanks and been done with it, but I was a bit younger when it happened, so I told them I'd be in the next day.

I was young, but not THAT dumb, though some may disagree lol. Anyway, I went the next day with my Jeep and with my copy of the signed contract. They were very vague in the wording of the reasons for me resigning, I don't recall exactly what they said. I start going over my copy vs the new copy about as closely as I could, but it didn't take long to notice that the monthly payment was about $40 higher on the new one compared to the one I signed.

So I obviously tell them that's a no go, and I'm not signing it. There's a good bit of back and forth and they finally show me a spot in the contract where it says either side can void the contract within 30 days, and my 2 options were to sign the new contract or void the old one and they take the Jeep back. It only took them threatening me one time to call their bluff.

I was in the office with 2 finance dudes and asked them if they could hold for a sec while I made a phone call. Called my girlfriend, funny part was she didn't answer, so I had to pretend she did. And with the 2 dudes there, I told her I needed a ride because I was giving the Jeep back to the dealership per their request, and then pretended she asked a question or 2 but just told her not to worry and we'd go shopping for something different that week at a different place. I "hung up" and asked them what we needed to do to close the transaction out

Mannnnnnn...did the tone of those 2 dudes change real quick when they realized I had zero issues giving them their vehicle back. All of a sudden, within about 10 minutes and of course, a trip to the back for them to talk the Manager, they came back and told me I didn't need to sign the new lease and could keep the old one.

Tata owns it now right?

Wife at the time was looking at used cars and found one she really liked.

I was out of town working but came in on my off day to sign for car. I was just about to sign and then I asked about the interest rate, salesman Ho hummed around and finally told me it was 29% and was best he could do.

I laughed at him walking out the door. Next day called back and said could get it at 5.9%.

Then after I bought the car they replaced the tires on it with 4 bald ones (1 even had wire showing)

Needless to say after I saw that I had a very intense encounter at the dealership where they actually called the cops but since the police chief was my cousin it didn’t work and I got 4 new tires

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Walk into Bryan Chevrolet, tell the salesman what I'm looking for, and the first truck he shows me is a 6 cylinder Silverado that had been a program car.

I wasn't interested in something that had been driven. I wanted a new truck.

The salesman refused to show me anything new and insisted that what I wanted was that program truck.

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The manager probably put a $500 spiff on it for whoever was able to sell it. Guess the salesman wanted to go to Ponderosa that day.

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I don’t understand these car sale managers.

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Have you looked at the "average" person bumbling through life? Look around at the unwashed masses where they gather. Most are, well, quite frankly, stupid. The car sales business is purposely designed to prey on the stupid.

For every one of us that goes in with their research in order, finances approved, and intentions set, there are at least as many dumbasses who walk in like they are going to buy a carton of cigarettes. And the shady sales guys prey on them like sharks on seals.

I guess there are enough of them to make it worth it for that business model, or it wouldn't exist.

It's infuriating to me to have to deal with, so I don't. I rarely buy cars, tend to drive them for the long haul. But when I do, I set a price for purchase in my mind, what I want for my trade, what my interest rate is, and just do not settle for less.