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p220sigman
Feb 01, 2022Explorer
For the last vehicle we bought, we drove a few hours to see/drive the vehicle at a dealer's lot with the understanding they would not hold it. We got there and drove it. Wife liked it but wanted to look at another similar vehicle in the same town at a different dealer. We let our sales person know that we are interested, but had one other vehicle to look at before deciding. Again, we understood the first one might get sold while we were deciding. We looked at the other one and DW liked the first one better so we called our sales person back and he let us know that someone had driven it and seemed interested but the husband didn't want to do the paperwork yet as he needed to go pick up his boat. Apparently, the wife tried to get him to go ahead and do the deal and their sales person told them that someone else (us) had driven it and was interested. According to their sales person, the husband told the wife that the sales person was just using BS sales tactics to try to rush them and they left. We went back to the dealership and DW wanted to drive it one more time to check something she forgot to check the first time. As we are coming back into the dealership, there is a truck pulling a boat parking. We saw the guy getting out and our sales person tells us that is the guy. He is going in the front door and we are going in the side door. We had already arrived at an acceptable price, so we just signed a note that we would purchase as the guy's sales person was greeting him. Our sales person advised the other sales person that the we had just agreed to purchase the vehicle. Needless to say, the guy was not a happy camper and he had to call his wife to let her know they missed it. I started to tell him that there was a similar vehicle down the road at another dealer, but I decided he might not take it as helpful as intended.
Moral of the story, sometimes there really is someone else looking to buy too.
Epilogue - While we were finishing the sale, the guy's sales person stopped by and asked if we were the one's that bought the vehicle. When we confirmed that we were, he said he was glad because the guy was a jerk (my translation of the actual word he used) the whole time and he was glad that he had to face his wife.
Moral of the story, sometimes there really is someone else looking to buy too.
Epilogue - While we were finishing the sale, the guy's sales person stopped by and asked if we were the one's that bought the vehicle. When we confirmed that we were, he said he was glad because the guy was a jerk (my translation of the actual word he used) the whole time and he was glad that he had to face his wife.
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