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| - Another day, another car we found online. In this case, it looks like it ticked all the boxes. In fact, if may actually tick more than all the boxes, so we decided to take a look at it. Unfortunately, it looked like no one else had done so in quite a while. At least, not with the intention of selling the car.
It might be that someone had taken the car for a joyride or something - there was trash (literally) in the back of the car. There was a nametag, like the kind you get at a convention or a Yelp elite event, affixed to one of the visors. While a used vehicle, that had a few scratches here and there, this was not that. It was dirty, as if the kids had taken it out for the night after the parents went to sleep, brought it back into the garage before anyone was the wiser, and passed out, without cleaning it so that no one would notice. This car was really bad - and it was much worse than the pictures online, so it's like they went through the trouble of cleaning it and then used it to make it worse.
Regardless, we were on our way out when the (a?) manager stopped us and asked if he could give us a chance at another car. Specifically, he suggested that he could offer us the same features, on a new vehicle, for the same price, would we be interested? Well of course. After this, there were two additional bits of information.
First was that he said he would "come as close as he could". This could be taken at least three ways. It could mean he would get the features as close as he could, that he would get the year as close as he could or that he would get the price as close as he could.
Second is that he said he would not waste our time.
On the second point, the manager went and did manager stuff, and left us with the salesperson. This isn't a bad thing, exactly, but the salesperson really needed help, because about the only thing he knew how to do with any skill whatsoever was operate the radio, and even that was questionable. If we asked something about features (and newer cars do have a lot these days), he didn't know. If we asked about financing, availability, or pricing, he didn't know. In other words, time was a-wasting, and we weren't even to the details yet, but it seemed like weren't doing very well.
We did drive a new vehicle, and liked it. Unfortunately, it didn't have the features we wanted, so we browsed the lot, and there was no luck finding the match we wanted. We then waited some more while the salesperson (did something), and still no luck. Eventually the manager wandered back and seemed to move things along, at which point we found out that there was another vehicle on the way in (from somewhere, at some point), and we may be able to make something happen. The only problem is that the price is higher than we wanted to pay.
So, to point #1: The features now match the original car, and the year matches (being a new car, as promised), but the price doesn't - it is a couple thousand more. I would give this to the manager as being "as close as possible", except it's a colossal waste of time to get here, and we really didn't want to spend more, and most notably, it was a huge amount of wasted time along the way.
Now to his credit, the manager did say that the offer would stand as long as we might want it, and it was a reasonable discount on a new car, but as mentioned, we weren't interested in spending the money, so let him know that he can keep it, and that we wouldn't be returning.
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