Car Deal Shocks Community
Posted by: info | August 11, 2007
I am pretty confident if you are an avid newspaper reader than you have seen headlines like this. It will most likely be followed with some kind of crap statement like car dealer sells car from $99.00. The next thing you will probably see is, lenders will be on hand to approve everyone. Which community did they shock? How come this ad has been in the paper hundreds of other times. Why don’t you get some real unique content?
These are some of the questions I ask. To be honest I don’t care about the answers. Today I visited one of these community shockers for the 3rd time. This time I made sure to get there early. They opened the lot up to the sale at 10 a.m. I arrived at about 7:30 to catch the $99.00 sale.
As the event neared opening the sales manager came out to talk with the few people who had gathered for the “big event”. He said that we all need to pick a vehicle that we like and when the clock strikes 10 we get the price on the vehicle. Whoever is in the car at this time will be rewarded the price. Since I was a veteran at these events I knew right away what to check out. I jumped in the oldest, most ugly looking car on the lot. This was a 96 Ford with high mileage and a little hail damage. There is no way this car was going to be priced high.
The manager yelled on the intercom “start your engines”, so we did and a salesperson came by and reveled the window sticker price as promised. To my amazement the car I was in was $3500. The ad was right “shock the community” because I was shocked that the price was so high. The salesperson said, do we have a deal? No!! I told him I was going to buy the $99 and donate it to charity. However, I must have picked the wrong one? I jumped out of the vehicle to find out the lucky customer. To no suprise I didn’t see the customer or car that was sold at $99.
I have never seen so many disappointed customers in one place. I ask my salesperson if he knew which car was priced for $99. He told me someone had already bought it, even though I didn’t see anyone drive off the lot. I also didn’t find any real happy customer(s) at the event either. I didn’t find another vehicle on the lot for less than $2500. The ad in the paper made it sound like there would be plenty of cars under this price. However, I didn’t see one.
As I said earlier this was my third time coming to one of these events and knew what to expect. I just want to raise awareness of what one might find at an event like this. First you may not see any real deals or any of the advertised prices, since they will already “be sold”. Also expect to see some very pushy, aggressive salespeople with money on their mind. The worst part is the whole sales tatic. If your salesperson doesn’t make a sale he or she gets a manager and then another person comes and attempts to make you buy something you don’t want or can’t afford.
I may have been to 3 very bad events but they seem to all have something in common. The event wasn’t special to me. I did get one great thing from visiting these events, a great breakfast and coffee. Also I am able to write this article and save many of you valuable time and money. Again this research is only to find out if a deal like this may really exist. Car dealerships have been very notorious for playing games with consumers. I guess this is the world we live in. These dealerships just seem to be very desperate to me.
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