Several years back I was in the market to buy a new ford f150, so I was making all the dealerships looking for what I wanted and talking to the salesmen. I finally come to a place where they had exactly what I wanted on their lot so I start talking deal with the salesman. He kept telling me and at one point pushing a bill of sale to me showing that they were only making 125 bucks on the sale. I know and you all know that dealers don't sell vehicles at such a close margin. At some point in our conversation I mention that it was obvious the invoice he was showing me was a form that the dealership had printed off putting in numbers that supported his contention that they were selling me this truck at such a good deal. Remember I've been to several dealers in the past month or so so I had a pretty good idea of what the truck sells for. I mention to him that that invoice he keeps referring back to really didn't mean anything to me as I explained to the man that I've already talked to several dealers and the prices were all over the board. I said that this invoice is something that is basically pulled out of his arse, numbers wise. He gets all beside himself and goes to telling me he is a Christian so why would he lie to me. I get up head for the door as in life I've found that when a person tries to use their belief in their God they were well on the way of giving me a good fu*king. by the time I got back to my f150 to leave I thought I was going to have to fight this so called Christian idiot to get out of there. I hope my response to his pulling his christian card out to sell me a truck opened his eyes to not try that option again. But who knows.
Another place I told them that I was going to pay cash for the down payment but the guy noticed I had a pretty good looking older f150 and inquired about if I wanted to trade it in. so I ask how much trade in he would give me and he said 2500 bucks, the truck was worth about that. But he said we'd have to start with new numbers so I say new numbers you just gave me the numbers based on my giving you a 2500 dollar down payment in cash. Oh he says we can't work from those numbers if you're going to trade this one in and I said why not and he hemmed and hawed and finally said something to the effect that they couldn't actually give me the 2500 buck credit for my old truck. So I say ok run the new numbers and come to find out they/he was only going to give me 500 bucks for my old truck but show on the invoice that they were giving me 2500 by jacking up the price of the truck I was to buy. I laughed said have a good day and walked out with him following me all the way to my truck and standing there looking at me bewildered realizing that he'd just fucked up and lost a sale. My plan was to give my old truck to my 16 year old Step son and thats what I did once I made a deal and bought the truck I still have today. This was back in '98 and i have 170,000 miles on that f150 and still drive it
The moral of the story is don't pull the religious card out on me when we're talking money or trades.
Peace
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