I just bought a Honda CRV after test driving a bunch of cars I never went to a dealership to get price quotes and delivery.

1. I started email communications with 5 dealerships.
2. I told the my make and model and color preferences.
3. I had time because my son was at school and I had an extra car (my car was totaled)
4. I had all 5 dealerships communicate via email and 2 via texts some times.
5 The would send me price with total breakdown of options and tax/tags.
6. You can tell if you’re dealing with old guys vs young people comfortable with this type of communication.
7. My car finally came up exactly what I wanted but for 3 weeks they tried to sell me a different color and I just would not budge on what I wanted then magically they had what I wanted.
8. Singed everything with docusign.
9. They delivered the car to my house and finalized the sale in 15 min.

I even had 1 on “order” and I just emailed to cancel it,

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Anonymous wrote:You do business in the town you live in. Loyalty. Nobody rich and/or who values their reputation wastes time driving an hour or more to give their money to a non-local dealer. Keep that money in your community. And that’s presumably where you’ll service it. Build a reputation with your local dealer. Then when you’re in a bind, they’ll assist vs you being I a miser who bought elsewhere.

DP But you’re never going to have a “relationship” with a dealer unless you are buying for a business with a fleet. That’s silly.

You’re wrong. And you can’t admit you’re wrong. Relationships matter. Shopping local matters. Pissing away your free time to “save” a few bucks haggling makes you a shameless loser. I say that as someone with a husband who used to do the same, until he realized how much insignificant and embarrassing it was.

LOL. This is pretty funny actually. Whatever can you get using your relationship, I bet you I can take that car away from you with extra $100 even though I have no relationship with your dealer.

I bet the guy who thinks he’s got a relationship with his dealer is getting taken to the cleaners. The dealers know suckers when they see them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You do business in the town you live in. Loyalty. Nobody rich and/or who values their reputation wastes time driving an hour or more to give their money to a non-local dealer. Keep that money in your community. And that’s presumably where you’ll service it. Build a reputation with your local dealer. Then when you’re in a bind, they’ll assist vs you being I a miser who bought elsewhere.

DP But you’re never going to have a “relationship” with a dealer unless you are buying for a business with a fleet. That’s silly.

You’re wrong. And you can’t admit you’re wrong. Relationships matter. Shopping local matters. Pissing away your free time to “save” a few bucks haggling makes you a shameless loser. I say that as someone with a husband who used to do the same, until he realized how much insignificant and embarrassing it was.

LOL. This is pretty funny actually. Whatever can you get using your relationship, I bet you I can take that car away from you with extra $100 even though I have no relationship with your dealer.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You do business in the town you live in. Loyalty. Nobody rich and/or who values their reputation wastes time driving an hour or more to give their money to a non-local dealer. Keep that money in your community. And that’s presumably where you’ll service it. Build a reputation with your local dealer. Then when you’re in a bind, they’ll assist vs you being I a miser who bought elsewhere.

DP But you’re never going to have a “relationship” with a dealer unless you are buying for a business with a fleet. That’s silly.

You’re wrong. And you can’t admit you’re wrong. Relationships matter. Shopping local matters. Pissing away your free time to “save” a few bucks haggling makes you a shameless loser. I say that as someone with a husband who used to do the same, until he realized how much insignificant and embarrassing it was.

Relationships with some car dealer who I will never see or hear from again most certainly do not matter.

This. Replace each of two our cars every ten years, on a rotating 5 year schedule. By the time we are shopping again, all the salesmen and managers are different.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You do business in the town you live in. Loyalty. Nobody rich and/or who values their reputation wastes time driving an hour or more to give their money to a non-local dealer. Keep that money in your community. And that’s presumably where you’ll service it. Build a reputation with your local dealer. Then when you’re in a bind, they’ll assist vs you being I a miser who bought elsewhere.

DP But you’re never going to have a “relationship” with a dealer unless you are buying for a business with a fleet. That’s silly.

You’re wrong. And you can’t admit you’re wrong. Relationships matter. Shopping local matters. Pissing away your free time to “save” a few bucks haggling makes you a shameless loser. I say that as someone with a husband who used to do the same, until he realized how much insignificant and embarrassing it was.

Relationships with some car dealer who I will never see or hear from again most certainly do not matter.

Anonymous wrote:Because shameless misers waste hours, days weeks of their and every salesperson in a 100 mile radiuses time to “save” $300.

You use the offer in writing to go get $100 off from the next dealer. Then you’re mad nobody wants to waste their time with you?

If you’re posting on a parenting forum, you’re old enough to value your reputation and establish connections with salespersons. Being known as the cheapskate transactional prole is not a good rep.

It’s sometimes thousands.

And, I don’t give a f about my reputation or relationships with car salesmen.

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Anonymous wrote:You do business in the town you live in. Loyalty. Nobody rich and/or who values their reputation wastes time driving an hour or more to give their money to a non-local dealer. Keep that money in your community. And that’s presumably where you’ll service it. Build a reputation with your local dealer. Then when you’re in a bind, they’ll assist vs you being I a miser who bought elsewhere.

DP But you’re never going to have a “relationship” with a dealer unless you are buying for a business with a fleet. That’s silly.

You’re wrong. And you can’t admit you’re wrong. Relationships matter. Shopping local matters. Pissing away your free time to “save” a few bucks haggling makes you a shameless loser. I say that as someone with a husband who used to do the same, until he realized how much insignificant and embarrassing it was.

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