Comments on Daily Top Ten List: 10 Ways Retailers Make You Pay More!

#1A coworker of mine just purchased a car using th...

2007-05-26T00:01:00.000+08:00

#1
A coworker of mine just purchased a car using the "fax attack" method, found on the www.fightingchance.com website.
Basically, you skip the salesperson and deal with the sales manager directly, from every dealership within driving distance. (ex. 100 miles) This way you create actual competition and whoever will give you the lowest price sells you the car. You are far more likely to get a low price that way, bc sometimes it is to the dealer's advantage just to sell the car to make the manufacturer happy (and thus send them better cars) even if he is making much less profit than he usually would. You also lower your price, bc there is no salesperson commission to pay for.

Example #1 just happened to us. We needed a car fa...

2007-03-27T11:39:00.000+08:00

Example #1 just happened to us. We needed a car fairly quickly. The dealership refused to budge on the selling price stating it's just "dollars" over their cost. Even after several talks with the manager, they could not come down ANY lower. So we got up to leave. Funny how fast the price came down to what we wanted!

RE #9:Manufacturers will often help the distributo...

2007-03-27T01:18:00.000+08:00

RE #9:

Manufacturers will often help the distributors do this. For example, mattress sellers. They advertise a price match, but the manufacturer gives each seller a different ID number for identical (or near identical mattresses), making it impossible to price match. Even when you've found the same product!