My worst car-buying Buying Experience Ever

Car dealers hate their reputation but live up to it daily.

Car dealer complains about a car buying experience 😂

Wait... You demanded $5k off for why? Because they wanted your check to clear before delivery? If that's the case you blew up the deal. Who does that?

I have a dealer's license. I've bought and sold over 100 cars myself personally, not including through the dealership. When my mother recently needed to replace her car after it was totaled, I had to take her to over a dozen dealerships in Vegas and So. Cal. before she finally bought a car. Every single one was gaming me like I didn't know what was going on. This was AFTER telling them I had a dealer's license and knew all the games. When are these managers going to learn... You make more money by selling more cars at a smaller margin. It seems all they care about is their $$/unit. I make about 20% gross on most of the cars I sell. That's it. The reason is when I list something for sale, I want it gone in days, not weeks.

Oh no! He got treat like the 99% of us that don’t own a dealership! Quick everyone let’s feel terrible. 🤣

We dont deliver on bank drafts either, especially for out of state deals on high-end cars.

A dealership not fully trusting a used car dealer? Sounds like just about everyone else in the world and lots of times it's for a good reason. If i had an out of state buyer buying a $100k car I'd wait for the check to clear too.

The life lessons I have learned...never buy a car (used or new) over the internet. Period. Never. You have to see it in person and you need to do paperwork in person. 99% of the people on the other end are either uneducated in the process or criminal. And, as much of a car guy as I am...I never go look at a car "needing it" / "Must have it". 90% of the time in a dealer...my toes are pointing at the door.

You asked them for 5 thousand dollars off a car that is hard to find? 😂😂 as an business owner you should know better. You talked about how you don’t negotiate the price yet you tried to do that to them .

😂 I live in a small town and don’t wanna look extravagant. Meanwhile a small town probably has 5 Audis in it. 😂

With all due respect, you might be better off spending the money on a shrink to determine why you would want an Audi in the first place.

So I’m a GMC fan boy for 30 yrs my wife’s Yukon 04 needed replacing back in 2016 wasn’t going to pay 78k for a new one so we purchased a new Audi Q7 in April of 16 for 62k one month later at Target a carriage ran into it and dented the door two days later out of the blue Audi USA contacted me about the buying experience first time ever a car dealer contacted me after purchase I tell Audi about the dent in the new car and they fixed the dent for free I was blown away on the customer service.

When my daughter was looking for a car during covid, it was a joke how much they tried to add BS add ons. They figured someone would pay 3 to 7k over sticker. They still have that mentality today. We were able to find her a car at the last stop. She paid sticker and got the car with a 500 off for college and 500 off for a new car buyer from toyota. The crazy part is when she went to finance the car, they tried to get her with the wheel warranty and extended warranty before she signed the paperwork. The payment was 350 a month before we took it off. She pays 289 a month.

Tell us the dealership. Pointless

Being a dealer right now you should know asking for 5 grand off of asking is insulting.

As a former Controller of a large Dealer group, Navy Federal Credit Union is very hard to collect for their drafts. On the back of the draft there are 3 pieces of info that has to be perfect. Then, they take their own good time to float the draft amount and find every possible reason to delay funding the deal. That part of your frustration is hopefully understood. We routinely didn't book NFCU deals until we were funded.

My general feeling is that industry folks also don’t like being gamed by their own kind. When Mike called up and insisted on speaking to ‘their best salesperson’, that could be interpreted as arrogance on Mike’s part. Then at some point they may have realized he’s “Chevy Dude” and figured that he’s probably going to talk about this on his channel, possibly with a click bait title, “I went up against Audi’s best salesperson and this is what happened!”. In my industry, there were two types of insiders. The easygoing types who know the game, made it easy and were fine with ‘fair industry’ discount because they make their money during the week. Then there was the other type who thought they deserved everything at cost because they knew how the game worked. I’m not sure which angle Mike was going for but asking for 5K off because of a delay in payment sounds grabby and opportunistic. At that point I would have offered him his money back too.

This is the reason buying a car at a dealer is so stressful. My Lexus dealer doesn’t play games, that’s why I do business with them. I wish they sold trucks!

Spring 1978 I had $1K for a down payment on a new car. My first. I down dressed (jeans) and my 1st stop was a Chevy dealership. The salesman didn't know about the cash in my pocket and didn't seem interested in selling so I walked. I wound up getting an ultra low mileage demo at a Dodge dealership next door to them and couldn't have been any happier with the car and buying process!

Sorry to hear about your horrible experience man. Thanks for sharing this with us. Just don’t ever deal with the dealer again. Will they treat you with the respect is rare these days you one of the rare ones man there’s still a few dealers out there that’s the ones we support Ones should go out of business. Keep up the great work, man you and your wife have an awesome upcoming week and enjoy the new car.