Originally Posted By: andrewg
Sounds to me like you were purposely wasting the time of the dealership and it's employees. I'm not trying to be rude toward you, but I think in essence, YOU were the dishonest one....especially when the dealership offered you your terms. While many of us despise dealerships in general, I've never had a bad experience at a Honda dealership. Since you are in my area, what dealership did you go to? Regardless, what was so unusual or poor about what the Honda dealership said to you? All dealerships have the goal in mind of selling you a vehicle. Just stepping onto the lot of any dealership sets the wheels in motion....it's normal and should be expected. And once you handed them the keys to your own vehicle, that kind of tells them that you ARE serious and willing to deal....doesn't it?
Let me see if I have this straight. Because the OP walks onto a car lot to see the offerings of a manufacturer, he becomes automatically indentured to the dealership and it is compulsory that he buys a car, even though he states that he/she dislikes their offering?
There are two reasons that I walk into a sales showroom: 1)to determine if a vehicle satisfies my wants, needs and expectations or 2) sign the paperwork and drive off (as I said, I buy cars via email/phone.)
I look at it this way: the dealership needs me to stay in business, I don't need them. I have dealt with many salespeople. Some were substandard and some were excellent. The ones that were excellent listened and truly tried to assist me in finding a vehicle that met my needs. The ones that were substandard could do nothing but come up with canned sales pitches, act like a bot, attempt to insult my intelligence and preparation for the process (which it is, and try to treat the second most expensive purchase in many people's lifetime as an event), verbally demonstrate their ignorance in their product, decide for me what my needs are, try to stick me in a vehicle that I did not want, and do everything to make it clear that I was nothing but a mark and their goal was to wrestle me into a supine position, get in my wallet, and extract as much money as possible.
Anymore, once I determine what I want,it becomes an email bidding process in which the best (not necessarily the cheapest) bid wins. Many times, that is where the "excellent" salesperson came to the forefront and got the sale, or at least was provided the opportunity to meet or beat the best bid. It all kind of comes down to who is going to control the dynamics of the situation. If it involves my money, it's going to be me.
Sounds to me like you were purposely wasting the time of the dealership and it's employees. I'm not trying to be rude toward you, but I think in essence, YOU were the dishonest one....especially when the dealership offered you your terms. While many of us despise dealerships in general, I've never had a bad experience at a Honda dealership. Since you are in my area, what dealership did you go to? Regardless, what was so unusual or poor about what the Honda dealership said to you? All dealerships have the goal in mind of selling you a vehicle. Just stepping onto the lot of any dealership sets the wheels in motion....it's normal and should be expected. And once you handed them the keys to your own vehicle, that kind of tells them that you ARE serious and willing to deal....doesn't it?
Let me see if I have this straight. Because the OP walks onto a car lot to see the offerings of a manufacturer, he becomes automatically indentured to the dealership and it is compulsory that he buys a car, even though he states that he/she dislikes their offering?
There are two reasons that I walk into a sales showroom: 1)to determine if a vehicle satisfies my wants, needs and expectations or 2) sign the paperwork and drive off (as I said, I buy cars via email/phone.)
I look at it this way: the dealership needs me to stay in business, I don't need them. I have dealt with many salespeople. Some were substandard and some were excellent. The ones that were excellent listened and truly tried to assist me in finding a vehicle that met my needs. The ones that were substandard could do nothing but come up with canned sales pitches, act like a bot, attempt to insult my intelligence and preparation for the process (which it is, and try to treat the second most expensive purchase in many people's lifetime as an event), verbally demonstrate their ignorance in their product, decide for me what my needs are, try to stick me in a vehicle that I did not want, and do everything to make it clear that I was nothing but a mark and their goal was to wrestle me into a supine position, get in my wallet, and extract as much money as possible.
Anymore, once I determine what I want,it becomes an email bidding process in which the best (not necessarily the cheapest) bid wins. Many times, that is where the "excellent" salesperson came to the forefront and got the sale, or at least was provided the opportunity to meet or beat the best bid. It all kind of comes down to who is going to control the dynamics of the situation. If it involves my money, it's going to be me.
