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Originally Posted by kaisen

Yep. You really worked hard for the best treatment. REALLY hard...

You car salesmen get really pissed if a customer hasn't worked REALLY hard for the best treatment, eh?

working with a dipshot salesperson at a dealer that has nothing to offer but price...

Nothing to offer but price? Like what?

So the salesman's a dipshot. So what? I'm buying a car! All I REALLY care about IS price. Do you think that a lot of car buyers give a flying f*ck about feeling like they are going to become bosom buddies with a glad-handing car salesman?

Gimme a break. Some freakin' ego.

And one dealer didn't have it on their lot!? Really!? Because the dealer with the "BEST PRICE" was going to locate one from another lot anyway.

Why the hell would I care that the dealer with the "BEST PRICE" was going to locate one from another lot?

If the first or second were great dealers...

Great dealers? What's a 'great dealer'? Are they analogous to, say, 'great gas stations' or 'great supermarkets'?

If you really want to be treated well,

What do you mean 'treated well'? PRICE is all I care about. If I get a good PRICE, that's being treated well. What the hell else does ANY dealership have to offer me? To pay (to quote you), "say, $200 more on a $25,000 transaction to be treated with integrity and respect, to start a long-term relationship with a company that treats you well and shoots straight?"

Yeah, right. What a load of crap. All I care about the salesman doing is filling out the forms, like he's getting paid to do, getting my signature and handing me the keys so I can leave and go about my business.

Oh, but you want to have a great relationship with the great salesman at the great dealership so they'll be sure to give you great service and will do a great job for you if you have to have warranty repairs done!

That's a load of crap too. Dealer shops operate autonomously from the sales department and they don't give a damn whether you and the great salesman liked each other or not. They just want your business. And I can take the car into ANY dealership for service and warranty work if I don't like the dealer I bought the car from. Or I can take it to my own mechanic if I want to.

*I'll say it again* FIRST choose...

You know, the 'Authoritarian Approach' will send most car buyers right back off your lot, don't you?

Bottom line is I'll treat a car salesman with the same courtesy and respect that I treat anyone else from whom I'm purchasing something. There's not thing one that makes them any better or more 'special' than anyone else making their living in sales.

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