Originally Posted By: raytseng
seems though like the salesman read you right though, and has lost absolutely nothing from you.
Perhaps you can also work on your negotiation game too and work on your answers and phrasing so you can play your cards better. Every interaction with others is a negotiation/test and they "won" this one (i.e. got your full position) without losing much.
A testdrive does take up the guy's time and effort.
It's not like the guy said please leave the premises if you're not buying today, just that he can't invest time in you to do a test drive.
If you just wanted to check out the car, then you can poke around and sit in the showroom model;
Based on your posting time, I believe you also went on a Weekend, which I would expect to be more of the prime selling time.
You also had it in your power to say, ok I'll give you $30 for your hour's worth of time to test drive the vehicle-which probably the fair market value for the gas, employee time, and car depreciation. But that puts you out of the position of power, and shows you really wanted the test drive? Did you?
Over in Munich at the BMW factory/showroom, they've instituted this exactly and gotten rid of this concept of "free" test drives. By saying they will let you take out any car; but as an hourly rental and with the corresponding prices.
I hate to think of how much money I would lose on test drives if they did that.
[As in, I would test lots of cars if given half a chance.]
seems though like the salesman read you right though, and has lost absolutely nothing from you.
Perhaps you can also work on your negotiation game too and work on your answers and phrasing so you can play your cards better. Every interaction with others is a negotiation/test and they "won" this one (i.e. got your full position) without losing much.
A testdrive does take up the guy's time and effort.
It's not like the guy said please leave the premises if you're not buying today, just that he can't invest time in you to do a test drive.
If you just wanted to check out the car, then you can poke around and sit in the showroom model;
Based on your posting time, I believe you also went on a Weekend, which I would expect to be more of the prime selling time.
You also had it in your power to say, ok I'll give you $30 for your hour's worth of time to test drive the vehicle-which probably the fair market value for the gas, employee time, and car depreciation. But that puts you out of the position of power, and shows you really wanted the test drive? Did you?
Over in Munich at the BMW factory/showroom, they've instituted this exactly and gotten rid of this concept of "free" test drives. By saying they will let you take out any car; but as an hourly rental and with the corresponding prices.
I hate to think of how much money I would lose on test drives if they did that.
[As in, I would test lots of cars if given half a chance.]