"No Haggle" Car Dealerships?

[Bailey Guns]

I guess I'm in the minority here. I actually get a charge out of negotiating with car dealers. Almost beat the living dog shit out of a salesman in Lakewood a long time ago. My (ex)wife and I were in a Subaru dealership just south of 6th Ave on either Sheridan or maybe Federal...I don't remember the name. This would've been about 1985. The guy got so flustered that he threw a pencil down on his desk. The pencil bounced off the desk and hit my (ex)wife in the face. I came completely unhinged and started over his desk after him. I was calling him every name I could think of and he was backing away from me, shit from his desk was flying all over the place as I was trying to grab him. Sales managers, finance managers and other salesman ran over and dragged me off the guy.

When I told the GM what happened he pretty much gave me everything I wanted on the deal.

Now, it's just like a sport to me. It's like the thrill of the hunt.

[Stephasaur]

I did mention I'm an oddball right?

Can confirm.

[CS1983]

I guess I'm in the minority here. I actually get a charge out of negotiating with car dealers. Almost beat the living dog shit out of a salesman in Lakewood a long time ago. My (ex)wife and I were in a Subaru dealership just south of 6th Ave on either Sheridan or maybe Federal...I don't remember the name. This would've been about 1985. The guy got so flustered that he threw a pencil down on his desk. The pencil bounced off the desk and hit my (ex)wife in the face. I came completely unhinged and started over his desk after him. I was calling him every name I could think of and he was backing away from me, shit from his desk was flying all over the place as I was trying to grab him. Sales managers, finance managers and other salesman ran over and dragged me off the guy.

When I told the GM what happened he pretty much gave me everything I wanted on the deal.

Now, it's just like a sport to me. It's like the thrill of the hunt.

Sounds like you once tasted the blood of man and now the taste of natural prey is no longer appealing.

[Irving]

Do guys still throw your keys on the roof and burn your clutch out against a tree while you're on the the test drive with their car and stuff?

[MrPrena]

The haggle time is not even 10% of time of purchase.
If buyer wanna save time on buying a vehicle, make sure they go in in a non-busy day so that they wont have bottle neck wait at F&I.
Another biggest one is tell sales guy that you will physically bring in the survey (or mail the unfilled out one) to the sales person when the delivery walk through is a shorter version. They usually don't feel comfortable doing shorter/incomplete version because of survey scores.

Complete brand new walk through is about 30 to 45 minutes depends on manufacturers recommendation.
I just want a 5 minute version.

Those 2 will shave about 25% of buying time.

[CHA-LEE]

The primary issue for most car buyers is going into the situation unprepared. Many vehicles end up being impulse buys where the customer has no clue of what is really going on and get taken advantage of. This is no different than showing up to a gun fight with a plastic spork from KFC. You must arm yourself with all of the knowledge and tools to make informed financial decisions. Dealerships are in the business of milking each customer for all the $$$ they can. You can go into a car deal uninformed and leave with a reamed asshole, or you can go in prepared and come out of the process without getting taken advantage of.

[CHA-LEE]

For the guys that are time sensitive, you can request that the "Paperwork" portion be scheduled at a later time/date. This obviously requires that you have all of your loan information settled and decisions made on warranties or whatever else. I have done this a couple of times when my schedule was hectic. I would go into the dealership, pick a vehicle to buy then be done with the negotiation process in less than 30 minutes. Then give them all of my pre-approved loan information and whatever else they needed then tell them to give me a call when the "Paperwork" was all pulled together and ready to sign.

Hell there was one time where I was looking for a very specific vehicle and the dealership didn't have it yet. They were getting it in a couple of weeks so I committed to buying the vehicle and told them to give me a call when all of the paperwork and PDI was done so all I needed to do was show up, sign, and drive away. This was on a new vehicle so that eliminated a lot of variables in negotiation, test drives, and that kind of stuff. That whole process from start to finish was less than 20 minutes.

[Bailey Guns]

Sounds like you once tasted the blood of man and now the taste of natural prey is no longer appealing.

No...I'm a lot older now and really don't have anything better to do.

[Eric P]

Email low income state dealers. They have price breaks rich state like CO dont get.

I got a 350z for 10k less in Alabama than the lowest price a dealer on the front range would do. I found the dealer on Ebay.

Flew out and drove the car home.

They price gouge in CO vs empoversed markets.

[Irving]

Does buying with cash speed things up?