โFeb-18-2015 02:55 AM
โFeb-20-2015 03:53 PM
PackerBacker wrote:
Definitely not the norm. I suspect the salesman wanted to understand how committed you were before doing a bunch of work and then perhaps going elsewhere.
I would just walk away or perhaps place a phone call to whoever is the top person at the dealership, i.e. the owner, and see if there is another perspective.
โFeb-20-2015 07:13 AM
โFeb-20-2015 04:34 AM
JALLEN4 wrote:
I spent the majority of my adult life practically living in vehicle showrooms of various kinds all over the country. Unfortunately, I never actually got to see some of the tactics related as "Old Wives Tales" on this and many other forums.
Any salesman in today's world who honestly would attempt to commandeer a credit card or a set of trade-in keys in order to keep a customer against his will, better look a lot like Hulk Hogan. He is bound to get a beat-down or worse in his first week.
โFeb-20-2015 03:03 AM
JALLEN4 wrote:
I spent the majority of my adult life practically living in vehicle showrooms of various kinds all over the country. Unfortunately, I never actually got to see some of the tactics related as "Old Wives Tales" on this and many other forums.
Any salesman in today's world who honestly would attempt to commandeer a credit card or a set of trade-in keys in order to keep a customer against his will, better look a lot like Hulk Hogan. He is bound to get a beat-down or worse in his first week.
โFeb-19-2015 04:04 PM
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โFeb-19-2015 04:19 AM
JALLEN4 wrote:
Having sold a huge number of vehicles in my career, I can see absolutely no advantage to the salesman having credit card information before any offers have been submitted. If in fact the OP made an offer and the salesman asked for a credit card to charge a deposit too, that would be normal.
Personally, I never wanted to see a credit card and much preferred cash or check for a deposit. As long as delivery has never taken place, it is relatively simple to stop payment of a credit card deposit without ever walking back into the store.
For those who think the salesman can do something magical with a credit card, I must have never learned that trick. You cannot get a credit report just with credit card information and simply seeing one from the consumer just shows he is like the other 99% of citizens who actually have one. Any charges the dealer would make on one can easily be disputed and reversed. It would be a stupid salesman who would use a customer's card for identity theft purposes as it would be immediately tracked back to him.
There are a number of reasons for the dealer not to take a credit card for a vehicle purchase and most dealerships have severe limitations on their use. For one reason, paying for a vehicle with a credit card makes the purchase automatically subject to a 72 hour right of rescission. For another, it automatically would add around 3% to the dealer's cost for credit card fees.
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