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Re:Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new ... by lotsofpulp on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @08:48AM (#32330978)
Price obfuscation and outright lies are of course, unacceptable. I think the general advice for years though, has been to email dealerships asking for final price and using Costco as the benchmark for who to waste time with or not. Although, the supply demand situation may have shifted so far into seller’s favor that dealers can abandon even those standards.
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Re:Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new ... by paranoidrobot on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @08:23PM (#32337973)
> dealers can abandon even those standards.

Again, based on anecdata, They really have.

I heard of one person who confirmed a price with a dealer, drove there, then suddenly Salesmanager Bob (who confirmed the price) is suddenly unavailable, and the other sales managers couldn't possibly honour that because there's all these other fees, charges, mandatory addons for it.

Their attitude is basically if you want it, and you've spent this much time already trying to buy it - what's another couple of thousand to you.

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