Funniest/most ridiculous dealer replies you've ever gotten

“Great news!”

I wouldn’t accepted this offer with a revolver to my head, it’s the principle!

If I can get the brown, will you take it in the tan?

we talking about cars or the color of excrement the morning after visiting my local taco bell?

From Carvana quote, I’ll only make about $500 if I buy the lease out (2018 Volt) after sale tax, so it’s not worth the hassles.

Went to a dealer to turn in my lease, have 1 payment left ($283), was welcomed by a very friendly “Hi brother, how can I help you?” at the lot.

Made clear I don’t want to pay anything, the guy was OK with that, waited for 45min, they went ahead with a regular return (and DIDN’T tell me) and asked me to sign. I thought everything was clear so did an e-sign so they grounded the car.

Got an email right away from GMF, glanced at it and my BS meter went off the chart, confronted them, they said: Yeah you have to pay the last payment and deposition fee.

I reminded the 1st guy about the conversation, the GM came out and said we can buy your car, but you have to pay us $500 fee. At this point, I lost my respect and patience and asked them to void the turn in.

They had the balls to say they couldn’t do it because I already signed. I was like: DAFUG, you just offered to buy my car. Only then the GM ungrounded the car.

These people are like the 0.01% left after you rub your hands with Purell!

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After asking if a 2022 GLE 350 was available, I got a reply from a salesman who told me it was not but that there was a different one, at $64K sticker, that was inbound. He took the liberty of providing an unsolicited quote to “give me an idea”. Claimed a $15k market adjustment on their GLE’s which are leasing in the $1400s with taxes and fees up front, roughly $8k due at signing. The best part was he ended the e-mail with “Let me know what you think”. I responded, “You don’t want to know what I think. That’s a hard pass, thank you anyways”.

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Wanted to see if I could work a Frontier Pro 4x deal given the 89% RV on a 24/10 lease. One dealer responded so far with an actual selling price…only $6k+ over MSRP.

Most fun my wife had in a while. She was laughing hysterically when i was locked in with a local Subaru Finance manager in a western movie style eye-staring contest. This was in 2018 when i was trying to lease 2018 outback Li.

He was already annoyed when i brought up MF/RV etc and 0 DAS that i wanted. He countered with 4k down and higher monthly payment. I had my laptop with me and had LH calculator open. Showed him what i wanted in terms of LH score in terms of years. :stuck_out_tongue:

That’s when he really got frustrated and banged his hands on the table in front of him and gave me stare to scare me off into signing to his numbers. I also decide to look right into his eyes and give him a stern stare. I could see his double-chins starching and eyebrows raising and lips shaking. My wife burst out on a laugh for a good minute here while elbowing me and saying: stop you guys are funny.

Anyways, we walked out on him couple of times to parking lot and he sent his sidekick twice to call us back in. We got what we wanted in the end. Outback 2018 LI for 0 DAS, no first installment payment, no registration or dealer fees and $320 a month. They still got us in the end with their $80/ month service package though [mostly oil changes]. But we still laugh about this.

I ended up selling my Outback to Carmax last month and made ~$11K on it so overall it was a great lease.

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There is nothing to laugh about almost $3k add-on.

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We all cope with trauma differently, bear.

My local dealer required a deposit in order to test drive a Q7. I told the manager I will never do a deal with them and will drive an extra 10 miles to service my car at their competitor.

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WTF. Did this happen recently?

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He’s not coping, he seems to be proud of the way he dealt with the finance manager.

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When I bought my very first car in the US, I was asked to show and then put my credit card on the table once we started talking. They did not want to put any deposit on it or anything, but said it is to indicate “I am serious”.

Since it was my first time, i just thought that’s how things are done here. Now I always smile when I remember that.

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Off course, i didn’t know it back then. Plus wife said we should get it for peace of mind. That’s that.

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I laughed reading this. What type of car?

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It was a Honda CR-V

Maybe they wanted to see if you’re financeable? Crappy approach anyways. :slight_smile:

I’ve had two awful experiences like this with two different San Diego-area Audi dealers, spaced several years apart.

It’s one of the main reasons when it’s time to start researching which car I want next, I look at Audi last (if at all).

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Yea its really disappointing as I almost exclusively have leased Audis and have always had a good experience. My local dealer now is new to me but has been servicing my car so I thought at least the relationship there would give me some credibility to test drive a car lol. When I told them it wasn’t urgent so I was not interested, they assured me I could walk away from my current lease (which is equity positive) with no negative equity (gee thanks).They also were adding a $1500 ceramic coating to all new units as a requirement. Just scummy all around.

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From what I have been told, dealerships can’t risk cars getting into any kind of accidents at all. One actually had an incident when a potential client’s car got hit on a test drive and couldn’t be sold. All while 5 other folks were in line for the same car :neutral_face:

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