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Originally Posted by bizaro86
On a related note, I bought a new car under the understanding that we were negotiating an all-in price. Then the finance manager explains that it doesn't include the laser etching anti-theft with extra theft insurance.
I told him I had plenty of car insurance, and wasn't paying for that, and he could take it off. He said it wasn't optional, since they etched it into the car already. I told him signed papers or no signed papers, I wouldn't be paying that, and if he insisted on it he wouldn't be selling a car.
I don't think that's backing out on my part, since he tried to wrench extra $$ from me after purchase. Total D-bag move, I would say.
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This happened to me as well. Negotiated an all-in price and the salesguy even told me like 5 times, "you do not have to pay a penny more" and then the finance guy tries to sneak in a $300 etching charge.
I told him, I wasn't paying and we had a deal for an all-in price and he started going on about the benefits of this security etch (which I found out was done on all of their cars by the manufacturer). I told him that he was being very greasy in trying to get $300 more out of me when we had a set price and he got offended which led to a heated discussion about ethics.
Long story short, I walked out of his office and told my salesguy that I was cancelling the deal and I wanted my deposit back. Next day, I went to another dealer and told them my story and they matched the price and threw in the etching as a freebie.
That finance guy tried to squeeze me for $300 more and ended up losing a $40K deal. I lost a lot of respect for that dealership for hiring a guy like that and I told them so.