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Originally posted by TerryBPP
Would you spend 5 hrs fabricating a part or detailing your car? You could pay someone but its not the same satisfaction.
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If you are playing pricing games with dealers for 'satisfaction', be my guest. Most of us have different hobbies.
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As far as respect for the dealer, I have never met one that wouldn't cut there moms beely open if they swallowd a nickel. If I had a personal, previous relationship with one thats a different story.
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You might have a personal relationship with your dealer if you didn't feel like that and act upon those feelings. It MIGHT be true that dealers are all scum, but when we engage in games as buyers, they will engage in games as sellers. It is my experience that if you make friends with the dealer, they will treat you fairly. If you treat them crappy, they will do the same. Find a dealer with a good reputation, treat them well, pay a fair price, and it goes a LONG way toward your car kharma in the long run.
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Then again maybe the Corvette dealers are different kasien.
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No, it's a poor marketing strategy when Chevrolet dealers sell $9995 Aveos and $72000 Corvette Z06's. Again with the Costco / Neiman Marcus analogy. The average new $21K Malibu has $1700 total mark-up from invoice after holdback to MSRP, where a Z06 has $9800. Think you'll get the same treatment buying the Malibu? Think the Chev dealer has the same level of salespeople, facilities, service loaners, etc. as a Porsche dealership??
Then again, some people wouldn't care as long as they got the best price. I'm just glad we don't all feel that way.
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