Lessons learned while car shopping today

[fake]

1. Dealers are assholes
2. Stick isn't popular these days
3. Honda on El Camino has hot asian girl dealers (exception to rule 1)
4. Honda S2000 is very nice
5. Dealers are assholes

Seems the people at VW on Stevens Creek don't understand what "NO THANK YOU WE DONT HAVE ANY QUESTIONS" x 10 means .. he fricken followed us out onto the sidewalk as we left.

Any suggestions for dealing with these people? We haven't bought too many cars and we definately have to browse some more.

 

[JimboTheConquer]

offer him a nice frosty beer.

-Jimbo

 

[RossMAN]

Does anyone have a direct link to that Edmunds.com article where the reporter went undercover as a car salesman?

 

[Imported]

Dealers in the Bay Area are morons.. I was looking at used cars and the sales person keeps trying to get me to look at a new car and stuff. They just don't know the words "No thanks."

Same thing happened to my dad a while back, trying to buy a new car and they tried to sell him an used car.

1. I agree.
2. Depends..
3. I agree!!
4. I agree some more!
5. I agree.

 

[natto fire]

i agree. But its also like that at Best Buy. At least the one I go to they have a 1:1 employee to customer ratio. You get asked if you need help like 50 times. And its always by someone different. You think they could radio to the 75 other employees there that i dont need help.

 

[Stealth1024]

Radio Shack is worse, they have a 2:1 employee:customer ratio. They want to know everything about you and what you're doing with what you're buying. One guy wouldn't let me buy some parts a few years ago because he said in order to use them I would have to solder them onto a circuit board and that could be dangerous (I'm 17 here). What a bunch of BS.

 

[BooneRebel]

Here's the undercover salesman article:

Edmunds

 

[Viperoni]

I've seen a street race between a WRX and a s2000; needless to say the WRX won. I dunno if it was due to bad driving or not, but it was kinda cool to watch