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I am having the darndest time getting quotes from dealers. Do you know if this is a negotiating tactic? I've been to 3 dealers that have each taken several days to get back to me on a quote. I'm talking about sales people that have taken me out for a test drive. Btw can anyone rec a Ford dealership? TIA!!
We had a very hard time having car sales guys get back to us when we were purchasing our latest car.
It is such a different experience than CA where we purchased the other two vehicles we have. They were aggressive and we wanted them to back off! Here they seem to be very passive and we wanted more action. I guess there is no happy medium.
I am having the darndest time getting quotes from dealers. Do you know if this is a negotiating tactic? I've been to 3 dealers that have each taken several days to get back to me on a quote. I'm talking about sales people that have taken me out for a test drive. Btw can anyone rec a Ford dealership? TIA!!
I can tell you one not to go too, the relationship I had with one particular ford dealership means I will never buy another ford.
When I bought my Ford it was between 2 dealerships, I choose the closer one and wished I had gone to the other.
The other dealership that I wished I had gone to was Tindol Ford.
I am having the darndest time getting quotes from dealers. Do you know if this is a negotiating tactic? I've been to 3 dealers that have each taken several days to get back to me on a quote. I'm talking about sales people that have taken me out for a test drive. Btw can anyone rec a Ford dealership? TIA!!
Sales people are about selling/leasing a car right there and then, not about cultivating a relationship and working for the sale. If you don't take it right there and then, they will just wait for the next person to walk onto the lot. It's a good market right now, so customers are everywhere.
I don't understand why you can't get a quote while at the dealership? If they think you are serious about purchasing/leasing they will work with you right then and there.
Sales people are about selling/leasing a car right there and then, not about cultivating a relationship and working for the sale. If you don't take it right there and then, they will just wait for the next person to walk onto the lot. It's a good market right now, so customers are everywhere.
Interesting as I just read that Ford was shutting down some of it's facilities in the face of declining sales.
I don't understand why you can't get a quote while at the dealership? If they think you are serious about purchasing/leasing they will work with you right then and there.
This was at the dealership & I had over $3,000 on me in hundred dollar bills ready to pony up. All I did was ask the salesman to change the quote we had worked on previously to add 2 more things onto the car. This was on a Saturday around 5 pm . He said I'd have to wait too long so could he email it to me on monday, which of course he never did, & i added one more tweak today & still haven't yet gotten a quote!!
I feel your pain. I leased a new car last year in 2015. When I buy something- anything- I'm a researcher. To the point where my wife thinks I'm a nut.
It's been 18 months, but I recall learning about the intricacies of car leases. Unlike negotiated a sale of a car, leasing is more complicated since there are more determining factors.
First off, find a message board or reddit specifically for your type of car (ie Ford Fusion, Explorer, etc.). When I leased my car, I found a great website dedicated to my model. There was a section for people posting their deals.
I learned a lot from that- being able to see the pattern or formula of a lease. (I can't remember it now). One thing I did was to make multiple security deposits which took the lease rate as low as it could go. What I liked about MSDs was that it's safer than a traditional down payment on a lease.
Note: from the overall advice I got from seasoned leasers (or technically "lessee") on the message board was not to put any money down on a lease. But if you want to have a lower monthly payment, you'll need to either put a down payment or do the MSDs.
*** The biggest reason why I used MSDs instead of a down payment: if you put down $3000 on a lease and drive off the lot and get in a wreck, you've lost that down payment. But with MSDs, you get that money back. You actually get it back once the lease ends.
There's also a website that provides a How to Lease e-book for a few bucks. Can't recall what the URL is.
I will also say to stay far far away from the Ford dealership located on N. Tryon Street about 6 miles away from uptown...
I had good luck at Huntersville Ford, BUT they can be very pushy. That being said if you go in and keep saying no they will keep bringing the price down. At least that was my experience.
I also have had good encounters at Performance Ford on South Blvd. Seems to be a mixed bag of reviews on them though.
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