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Originally Posted by bizaro86
That's way more reasonable than what you said before.
Taking a deposit to secure an offer is VERY different than taking a deposit before you deign to negotiate with someone. Every car dealer does that, and the reason is obvious.
I actually bought a car at auction once, and they would only take part of the deposit by visa/mastercard/interac. The rest had to be cash or certified cheque. It turns out my bank wasn't open to get a certified cheque at 8:00 on wednesday night, so I had to hit the ATM 3 times to scrounge up the rest of the deposit.
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What I initially meant was... the OP made a hard offer on the vehicle, and if his salesman was any good, he would had secured the offer with a deposit the way I mentioned above.
If I had asked the guy ,"So what you are telling me, is you are prepared to put a deposit on the Magnum today if I can get it to you for $15000?" and he said "No, I just want your best price." I probably would have said, "I am sure we would be interested in your offer, and may be able to accept it. However why don't you come back and negotiate when you are prepared to buy the vehicle."
I was a very user friendly sales guy. Super friendly, never lied to a customer once, and didn't bs people. I walked people away from deals I thought were bad and in many cases got tons of refferals from those same people. However, if IO felt I was getting the run-aropund, sometimes in the middle of a presentation, a bunch of test drives or negotiation where I would just stop and ask. "Are you interested in doing business with us? Or are you still quite a ways from making a purchase? I hope you can understand I am not paid to ride around in the back seat of a car all day, and I would hope you would respect my time, as much as I have respected yours up to this point."
And no body took genuine offense. If anything a lot of people would actually cut to the chase and pick a car at that point.