Dealer tries so hard to rip me off

So yesterday I go down to the dealer to pay for my car. I had negotiated a total out the door price of $25000 for a Level III with carpet mats and bumper protector. I had my own financing so it was a cash deal to them.

The dealer keeps me hanging around for 2 hours so the finance guy can finish my papers. Then they come on with the hard sell. They know they are not making anything on a loan kickback from their bank so they try the full court press to get me to buy their warranty package, paint protector package and maintenance package. They tag teamed me with 2 guys trying back and forth to get me to do this.

The cost was crazy. The 7 year/100000 mile warranty alone was over $2000. When I bought my Honda CR-V with 4 wheel drive I got the same warranty for $995. If I had bought everything they were trying to add on it would have added $5000 to the cost of the car. Come on, $800 for oil changes and tire rotations for the next three years. Is that oil made from squeezed gold?

I listened very politely to their pitch because I had an ace in the hole and I just wanted to let them do the whole song and dance. My wife was astonished at my patience because I usually have no tolerance for sales people and heavy handed tactics.

When they were done they said what do you think? I said I already have almost everything you are trying to sell me, my auto insurance already comes with a 7/100,000 bumper to bumper policy and it only costs me $70 a year. I already have towing, and rental car coverage so I don't need that. The dealership provides for FREE a lifetime no deductable warranty on the powertrain anyway, so why would I need to buy something you are giving me for FREE too.

But it was the warranty my insurance company sold me that stopped them cold, even the finance manager chimed in and said that they had researched that program and could not figure out how the insurance company gives so much coverage for so little money.

With that we were done. Papers done. Check for $25K.

 

No, $1800 for a GPS is just way out of line. I can get the top of the line voice activated Garmin for less than half of that and update my maps each year for way less then they charge for the Toyota DVD map.

 

car, mats, bumper 23759
tax 712
license 129
dealer fee 400

 

Yeah our tax laws are interesting. Sales tax is 7.5% except on cars, on cars its 3%.

 

Re: this is about the warranty

Hmmm, a dealer knocking another companies warranty as garbage. Even on here they try to sell, sell, sell. Like I said I have no patience for sales people or high pressure tactics.

Its not a third party warranty by the way, it is administered and run by my insurance company. I have used it for over 20 years on many cars without ever having a problem. The only reason I did not have it on my Honda is because they could not sell that product in the state I lived in at that time.