Car Shopping

I never knew that car shopping could be so stressful. I mean you are looking at beautiful new autos to purchase, bring home, and live happily ever after with them, right? Well, Bill and I are in the market for 2 new cars this year, not really anticipated but our cars are 10 years old and we are ready to have newer and more reliable cars.

Luckily, we have purchased one car (mine) an 08 honda crv and we have one to go with Bill's car. We did not encounter any trouble in purchasing mine, friendly sales staff, reasonable price, and the exact car we wanted. We had test driven the car one time, did our "homework" on price points, researched gas mileage, reliability, and reached at price point we would be happy with. All in all, a nice experience. Thank you honda!

Fast forward a few days, Bill and I go again to car dealerships and I am anticipating a similiar experience with the others. Not so much. We first enter the Nissan Dealership to look at the 09 Murano. First we are damn near mugged as we get out of the car. A pushy sales person runs over to us asking "is anyone helping you guys?". No, no one is helping us, as you saw we just are getting out of the car, so he shows us the Murano, very nice but not what Bill really wants. After sharing that with him, he then asked, "What can I do to get your business today?" well, we told we aren't looking to buy the exact same day we saw the vehicle, we are doing some comparsion shopping.

We then go to the Ford dealership to look at Bill's favorite the Ford Edge. He loves this car and will most likely get it. So another sales person comes out of the woodwork, informing us he's relatively new with Ford (since January) but he's willing to help us with anything he can. Bill drives the Ford Edge and is really pleased with it. He's choosing the model he wants, color, interior, etc. So for grins, we have the guy run the numbers again for comparison reasons. Much to Bill's dismay they aren't going to give him what he wants for his trade in and the sales person's price point is a lot higher than we want to spend. When we tell him we are unhappy with the price, he then says, "Well, what can I do to get your business today?" These sales people must obviously be trained to say that when people aren't happy with what they originally said. Like I'm gonna change my mind and give you my business today because you are going to go above and beyond the call of duty and give me this Fantastic Deal when I originally said I was unhappy with what you originally said. Does that make any sense?

So we leave and proceed to another Ford dealership because Bill really wants the Ford Edge. Here's the silve lining in all of this car bull shit. The third and final sales person is not pushy, non intrusive, doesn't ask for our business repeatedly, and is generally a really nice guy. Bill's struck the jack pot. He loves the car, likes the salesperson and is very happy.

So we will be bringing home a new Ford Edge for Bill. The best news of all is we are set for cars for awhile now. Thank god!

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