re car buying story was christ another dealer service scam in article apr newsgate sps mot com rapw email sps mot com writes their problem i wasn t giving them any more money the finance guy then brought in the manager on duty who proceeded to give me a hard time i reminded him that i was the customer and i didn t think i should be treated like that and that if he didn t back off he could forget the whole deal he made some smart remark so i told him where he could stick it snatched back my check and left needless to say they were not pleased by the turn of events that s nothing when a friend of mine went shopping for a small sedan a few years ago she brought me along as a token male so the salespeople wouldn t give her the bimbo treatment her first choice was a mazda and second choice was a nissan sentra we went to a mazda dealership and described what we wanted we started negotiating on the price and the salesdroid kept playing the let me run this price by the sales manager after playing the good salesman bad salesman game we finally told him that if he didn t have the authority to negotiate a price perhaps we should be speaking directly to someone who did he brought in the sales manager who proceeded to dick us around with every trick in the book read remar sutton s don t get taken every time for a list finally after playing a few more rounds of you ll have to work with us on this price also known as each time you come up a thousand dollars we ll come down ten the salesmanager gave a signal to his two sales cronies stood up and said well we can t come down any more so i guess we can t help you and they trouped out of the room leaving us sitting in the salesman s office all by ourselves hmm i d read that sleazy salesmen sometimes bug their own offices so they can leave and listen in on couples discussing the sales offer and i mentioned this aloud to my friend while we were sitting there wondering why they would leave us in the office instead of showing us to the door for lack of anything better to do i picked up the phone on the desk and called another mazda dealership asked for a salesman and began discussing what kind of price they would consider a few sentences into the conversation mr salesmanager broke into the line and began telling me how rude he thought it was that i would call another dealership from his phone i said that since he d announced that our business was over he shouldn t care and every time i tried to talk to the other sales guy the sales manager would drown out our voices with his own how did he know that i was using the phone anyway finally i hung up and we headed out of the showroom sales manager and cronies come out of a little unmarked room and he begins to berate us again we say that we won t bother him anymore we re going next door to the nissan dealership then comes the part i wish i could have videotaped as we go out the front door the sales manager shouts across the entire showroom customers and all go ahead you deserve to buy a nissan so my friend bought a sentra just so the guilty won t go unpunished i ll mention that the sales manager s name was gary tusone from his manner his refusal to come down to a reasonable price and his anger at the end my guess is that he had bet our original salesman who was a young novice that he d be able to get at least x dollars out of us and he was steamed that we wouldn t fall for his slimy tricks
