Amen. My wife has dented or dinged her last 3 cars in a row.
As others have said, if the dealer is dipping into the discount and making a little back through add ons then I wouldn’t sweat it. I did an Infiniti deal at one point where they met me at my aggressive number if I was willing to add on a $200 vin etch (which was never actually installed) so we all walked away happy.
We agreed to a deal. I don’t remember the exact number so I’ll use ballpark numbers.
$400/mo with $1000 DAS. This was after a little back and forth.
Then when they sent over the paper work that $400/mo with $1000 DAS turned into $2000 DAS because, oopsie we forgot about the paint protection plan we put on all our cars.
To which I said, nah bruh, homie don’t play that bullshit. To which they said, well then we can’t do the deal.
You know now that you mention it, every one of my cars that my daughter/wife has ever touched has curb rash. And this includes cars that have 12 cameras all around. And still they manage to hit the curb when parking.
Maybe I should look into those protection plans as well. 
Betcha can’t beat a 2-in-1 whammo. My wife opened the passenger side rear door, climbed in then fell back onto said door, bent the door and put a huge vertical dent in another of our cars.
Por que
edit: realized we totally de-railed this topic. But yes I would walk as you did on the deal unless you found actual value and use in said $1000 package.
lol it sounds like we need a ‘my wife damaged the car again’ - support group
So they just lied and didnt actually agree to your deal
Does backing out of the garage without opening the garage door count as a 2 in 1?
Inform them that you will pay the fees but reduce the car’s price.
I walked out on few deals because of these fees. If the dealer discloses them up front, I don’t have any issues. But usually, you find out about the fees towards the end of negotiation. The joys of car buying.
Did you switch to Spanish to avoid calling her Porky? 
I care, and that’s why I’ve never paid any of that. 80% of dealers will drop it if you refuse. The other 20% just walk away.
Ah yes the 3m film door protection fee. 500 dollar addon for a 50 dollar film package but if you get lucky, it’s so good that the film is invisible! I’m sure the film itself needed a doc fee of 450 dollars which adds up to the 500 dollar final cost. Jokes aside, gotta love it when the “add-ons” are in the price but not even installed on the car 
Hmmmm…..kind of funny that you’re calling out 40% of population as illiterate and then you use the wrong word “commiserate” instead of “commensurate”
funny in a “throwing stones-glass houses” kind of way!!
I told my wife today I wanted to get rid of our Pilot 34 months into our lease and get something different. She wants to buy it. There are 15 door dings in a line from my kids hitting it repeatedly. She said she doesn’t even notice the dents! Like a knife to my heart.
I’m not “calling out” anyone for it, it’s statistically proven. I don’t think calling out a typographical/autocomplete error really changes that but good catch regardless.
That chart isn’t for literacy it is literacy in English. Reading English is hugely important in the car buying process but only being able to read Chinese or Spanish is not the same as being illiterate. Someone who is illiterate can’t go to Google and look up how the car buying process works while someone who only speaks Spanish can.
What’s funny is that you couldn’t figure out from 3 tries that “delete” doesn’t actually delete the post and that you can edit the original post within 5 minutes so it would not show any of your edits.
That’s fair enough but when we are talking about the scope of reading and understanding financial concepts and contracts in the United States, English literacy is what you kind of have to be talking about. There’s plenty of people who aren’t ESL that have these same challenges in America too.
Shots fired
Nah. I shoot to kill.
