Re:Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new ...
by ghaff on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @09:27AM
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I just bought a new car as well. It turned out that the "in transit" car had obviously not been built yet. Paperwork charges were a bit high and there were some mostly BS "factory installed options." But MSRP was MSRP and I was actually able to get the charge for the options added to my (already pretty good IMO considering) trade-in price. The main pain was that I had to wait 6 weeks when I had some issues with my current car. But then I went in with the attitude that I was probably paying sticker and would be happy to just get the car I wanted so things went pretty smoothly from that perspective.
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Re:Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new ...
by ChainOfFools on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:35PM
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Having worked at a car dealership some number of years ago I was surprised and amused by the way that this business has been soaked in (what would only recently come to be referred to as) dark patterns for so long that they have acquired an almost folkloric categorization scheme, with pithy, locally conventional names identifying almost every well-worn dark pattern sales track. The one they'd use internally to sum over your experience above is "sticker is quicker."
I think my favorite out of all of these was "grapes;" the term used by Ford salesmen to refer to fiercely brand loyal pickup truck buyers. juicy and easily squeezed.