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Originally Posted by kaisen
You haven't a clue how the car business works. None of this is correct.
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That could very well be true. I was going to put the disclaimer that this was years ago and I really don't know much about the business as it's run today.
The last 3 new cars that I bought was years ago. I went straight to see fleet salesmen, told them what I wanted, they thumbed through their books, jotted down numbers, added them up and gave me the price, which was non- negotiable and considerably lower than quotes from floor salesmen after haggling. That was after going through a broker to buy my wife's Celica, after which I learned that I could have gone directly to a fleet salesman, which is what he did, and saved paying a broker to do it for me.
Of course, if I'd have even approached a floor salesman at that dealership, the fleet salesman wouldn't speak to me. This was common in all local dealers who had a fleet sales program. And the fleet salesman could get me any number of other cars that were not sold at their dealership. And, to many people's surprise I found out, you didn't have to buy a 'fleet'. You could buy just one.
I once talked to a fleet salesman at a Pontiac Mazda dealer to get a price on a Mazda coupe and mentioned that I might also be looking at 944s. He said he could get me one of those as well. This may have changed since back then also. I don't know.
Perhaps you can synopsize how the car business works today?