Rude buyer towards sales person - seeing the other side

azdryheat wrote:
Regardless, where did the dealer get the so-called wholesale price for the trade-in?

You do realize every dealer is connected into the wholesale market because they do take trade-ins and base trade values largely on what the auctions of the comparable units have brought in the recent past right? There are even factory new units that go into the wholesale market when they've been lot queens somewhere.