New car shopping

[LoneWolf]

Looking from another perspective....

first off, I work at a new car dealership, I'm the fixed op director currently. But why does everyone think it so "fair" to say " I know what you paid for it and I'll give you $200 bucks more" ???
If you don't like the way a salesman treats you, simple, don't do business with them. With an average price of a car or truck at $30,000, and you are going to offer them barely a half percent profit? Remember, these salesman are working for a living too.
I'll grant you there are some real sleazeballs out there, but they are in every line of work. I deal with alot of them everyday ... as my customers.
And with the privacy laws these days, a salesman can't even start talking price and payments until he has info from you.
I know how my dealeship treats customers. Yes, we make mistakes now and then. But we are in a small, small town. The previous owner was lucky to do 50 new and used cars a month. We consistently turn 150. Why? Because we take care of our customers. Most of our customers drive at least 20 miles to come to us, and pass many dealers on the way. On top of that, we are in a General Motors area. By that, I mean talmost everyone gets a GM worker's discount. They can buy a car for the same price anywhere. Frankly, I could care less about selling you a car today so that you can tell all of your buddies what a great deal you got, and forget all about me. I want to have you telling all of your buddies about how you were treated and buying all of your cars from me from here on out.