Think I will take a walk around the block, Dad has me feeling a bit dizzy.
Me too. I feel for Dad, but I guess I just look at the process differently. It's the ultimate up-close people watching. Sleazebags in their natural environment. It's fun to put them through their paces. Of course, that drives my socially-anxious wife up a tree, so she usually goes to sit in the car while I do my thing.
But yeah, if one doesn't cultivate the joy of pissing off salesmen - aka getting in touch with one's inner asshole - the process sucks.
Very well said. I'm one of those that doesn't enjoy the experience at all.
Nor do I, I just do my homework then go or sometimes even just call and tell them what I will pay giving myself a couple hundred $ +/- wiggle room and take it or leave it and you got 5 minutes to ask whoever you got to ask. Take it I write the check and drive off don't take it I walk immediately. Come running out the door with the old wait a minute - GFY. That simple and worked quite well since an airplane salesman friend taught me that trick about 30 years ago. Smaller dealers are much easier to work with usually.
The underlying principle to this is "Don't get attached to what you don't own." Car salesman get you with tantalization. You go in set on what you're going to get, and they show you a "better" deal that somehow always involves spending more money.
In my clan, we call it the Ferrari Rule. We have a friend who has a Ferrari and we have a standing offer to borrow it anytime. We don't take him up on it, because we might like it, and that way lies misery.
