The dealer will probably call you back, should'nt take the first offer anyway.Now when they do, it has to cost them more than $90(the cost of your aggrevation)good luck.

 

i would have paid the $90 but got a few free oil changes, tire rotations or something...

there is no guarantee that you will find the same truck with the same options cheaper somewhere else...

 

Sounds like you were about to get a deal you and the dealer could live with. As others have mentioned, when I get to a point like this in the haggling process. It then becomes a give/take scenario outside of just price. On my previous used SUV purchase we were negotiating over $40. I was determined not to go beyond the budget I set for myself, they couldn't go down anymore, so they said. Told them I'll pay the extra $40 but that I get a full gas tank before leaving. They gave it to me. Sales Manager didn't know at the time how low the gas was. Cost them about $40 to top off. We both laughed and got what we wanted in the end.

Bet they'll call you back in within a week.

 

I don't know if I would have walked away from a decent deal over $90.... BUT...

I walked into the dealer on October 9th and ended up walking away with no deal.... dealer called me back on the 15th with some more options... I walked once more... On Nov 2, they called me back and had a couple more "ideas"... and at 9pm that night I drove off in my '10 Ram...

From my experience, the best deals (for the consumer) are had when the dealer is hurting for the sales (usually the last day of the dealer month)... The last day for October sales was Nov 2nd for my dealer.

---Ron

 

dont all new vehicles come with a free tank of gas?

the mariner my wife bought came with a half tank in there and a coupon for a free fill up.

my ram came with a full tank... hell i think it was even on the window sticker... when i get home ill check

 

Maybe I have just been lucky everytime i buy a new vehicle- 98,99,02,02,04,05,07,07,and now 09- but everytime before i leave the dealership they always fill the gas tank and detail it..... unless it's a sh!tty day and then it's detailed on another day..

 

I bought an used SUV as I stated. Most dealers, if not all these days, don't fill up the tank for used vehicle purchases. My new '09 Ram came with a full tank.

 

Mine didn't come with a full tank, actually very little gas and less than 5 miles on the truck. Some of the window stickers said that they come with a tank of gas and some didn't (mine didn't). Mine was a 1/09 build so maybe there was some changeover in the verbage on the window stickers.

Had I actually test drove the truck I might have noticed the lack of gas and got them to fill it up, but I did the deal with the internet sales manager via email - came in for about 10 minutes to sign the paperwork and then opened the door on the truck for the first time and drove home

 

Yea, they let me test drive another vehicle,so they could detail the truck I was buying.They filled the tank of truck#1,used it for the weekend,drove like 300 miles then came back picked up truck#2(my new truck)and they filled that tank.I was happy.........Kevin.

 

True.. but I rarely buy a $30,000 couch which has more than $5,000 in profit and holdbacks. Also, the couches don't usually have a $900 fake fabric protection package or a $650 stripe on them.

I know there are good dealers out there, but there are bad ones as well, and probably more bad ones than good one. I was looking at a car during the cash for clunkers feeding frenzy. Our local Nissan dealer had the window sticker with MSRP, then another sheet next to it with $2700 of fake add-on charges like $900 fabric guard and my favorite, the $65 plastic license frame with their name on it... and this was on a car that has an MSRP of $15,525. The sales manager told me, with a straight face, that the MSRP is what the dealer pays for the car, and that the selling price is the total on the additional sheet.

After looking at the prices on new trucks in my area, I bought one off the internet by email from a dealer 300 miles away, I saved thousands, and they delivered it to my door.

My days of going to a dealer for the purchase process are over. I don't like being treated like an idiot by a guy who doesn't know his product or his inventory as well as I do.