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Originally Posted by mmollo
Some of these dealers have GM's that have no idea how to run a business.
I drove by one of the dealerships by my house one Saturday afternoon, they had an Orange SS parked under the front porch area for all to see. A couple of hours later on my way home I drove into the dealership at about 8:00. The car was gone. I asked a guy if they sold the Camaro (it was the only one they had) he said no, the GM took it home, and I would be back on Monday. So I'm thinking this guys will be driving the sh!t out of this thing all weekend. Then Monday I go back in to take a look at this car. It's sitting in the showroom with 1,300 miles on it, the front spoiler of the GFX was missing and there were a ton of scratches in the footwell from all the use this car was getting.
A salesman walks up and starts telling me all of the features and benefits of the car. The was a nice and knowledgeable guy. I told him I was going to go home and talk to the boss about ordering a car from him. A couple of days later I was able to get a supplier discount authorization number. I called the salesman and told him I wanted to order the car and use the number. He told me he would need to call me back, because he had to get the OK from his manager to use the discount. Five minutes later he calls back and says the GM will not accept the discount code for the Camaro. Then he has the balls to tell me if I find a dealer who will take the code to call him back and he would see if they would meet the deal. I told him sorry, I don't do business like that. I was giving him first shot, or I would call around until I found a dealer who would accept the discount code.
So, after one phone call I got the dealer about 5 minutes down the road to take my deal. The first guy called me a couple of days ago to follow up, I told him his competition down the road took the deal.
I don't understand why the GM of the first dealership would be demoing the hottest car in the country instead of keeping it as clean as possible, and why he didn't take my discount code when he has two other dealerships within 5 minutes of him. Oh well, I have my deal done. Just playing the waiting game.
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Similar situation happened to me before I got mine or my two... First dealer I called said he had a Black one..I said I was interested and was on the way. I get there and it's yellow. I don't have anything against yellow, but why lie to me? he just wanted to get me in the door. I called him out in front of a crowd of people and said you wasted my time and gas for me to come over here. Second dealer I call says we have one but will not sale that one (Showroom model) and that I could order for 2K over MSRP. I said why would I pay over sticker when I can go to another dealer near by pay MSRP...he says hang on and then comes back and says okay we will honor sticker. These 2 dealers little did they know lost 2 Camaro sales from me and another referral. If the first guy would not have lied and the second guy not been greedy, they would have gotten a total of 3 Camaros out of me, one being a referral. I am quite sure that my current dealer will get other Camaro referrals out of me as well. It just comes down to pure GREED and it make me sick.
Original Poster....You do not owe your dealer anything. You are very nice to even meet with him. Ask him is he willing to risk loosing a long term customer and long term referrals over a discount that he signed off on. He must be getting the axe from GM and is not looking to the future of his business. I mean does he really think you are going to come in there and write him another check? Sometimes you wonder how people get in the position that they are in acting like that. Maybe I am missing something here and greed pays off lol......how one can grow a business in that manner is beyond me.