salesmen, how difficult can it be??

Yeah, that bit with the car keys is an old dodge. "Give me your car keys, and I'll have our appraiser get a value on your car, while we take this baby out for a test drive..."
Comply with that, and there are any number of games they can play, from "we've lost your keys," to "bad news, seems your car blew the engine, (or transmission,) when our appraiser was doing the test drive." And believe it or not, there are many people naive enough to fall for it!

 

Lol I'd love to hear that: "you blew the motor?? Wow, that's really gonna be an expensive test drive for your appraiser isn't it!"

I've had car salesman quite the opposite; I walked into a place n asked about a unit on the lot, salesman thru me the keys and said go take it for a spin, see what I think.
Didn't ask for license, insurance, ID, my vehicle, my first name even!

 

Sure you have. Most of us have had the same experience. Car dealerships and car salesmen are just like the rest of the population. Some honest, at least fairly so, and some totally crooked, do anything to make a sale. And some in between the two.

 

And then years later around 2008 Ford engineers decides the Clark Griswold "truckster" grill would look great on their super duty F250 and bigger trucks. Lol

 

We need a thread on dealers and their games......
My contribution: ( We need a deposit....but we're pre approved at our bank, here's your instructions.....how about a check? .....no we're pre approved.....how about her wedding rings? ) ( bye )
Or
We were sitting in the F&I office to close....had 10k in cash down......deal was like 22k.....he says " I can cover the balance at 14%......I'm sure you can, goodbye......will you accept 10% ? ....... NO , bye..... ok wait here.......( gone 30 mins ) comes back and says " ok we will do 4% because it's her birthday"
( they were listening to our conversations on the intercom !!!!! ) ( bye )

And my favorite, go to F&I to close with our own money, he says ( I'm not making any money because you have your own financing, you have to buy this tire warranty so I can make something ) ( and bye again )

I love it!!

 

My favorite is their extended warranty. It costs them maybe $200 but they sell try to sell it to you for several thousand...