Comment Re:Same business model, different business (Score 1) 401
Last time I went to buy a car, I got an offer from the weekend sales manager at one dealer*, but told them I was going to check with several other dealers for the same brand to see what they had in inventory. (It was September, and the cars from the new model year were trickling in randomly.) Came back the next day to buy the car, and the weekday sales manager said he couldn't sell it to me at that price, wanted $500 more. I told him no, we had a deal. He said, ok, then, I can sell it to you at that price if you buy this extra crap. Nope. Ok, then, let me see what I can do, goes in the back, comes back with a contract that has a different $500 of extra crap in it. I walked. Went over to the other dealer, spent $500 less for a car with $500 less in options (some of which I had actually wanted), so they ended up with about $200-300 less in profit and were happy to sell it to me.
*Premier Kia/Nissan/Etc. in Fremont, if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area. A year later they sent me an email advertising a big sale on cars, and I pointed out that I already had a new car of the brand they sell, and that not only would I not buy another car from them, if my car breaks down right in front of their shop I'll have AAA tow it somewhere else to get fixed. Six months later they sent me another email