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| - Honestly, I got the car I wanted and it was a good price, but it took a lot of patience to get there. When I first parked and walked toward the entrance, nobody even looked at me or gave me the time of day. There were at least 4 salesman standing out front chatting with eachother, when I got the attention of one, he looked at me and said someone will come out in a minute. Finally a salesman came out and he took me to see the Dodge Challengers I had been looking at on their website. I test drove the one I wanted and throughout the test drive the salesman kept talking about my age (I'm 22), as if he was doubting my buying ability. We get back and he doesn't even invite me inside to talk about making a deal, when I mentioned I would be trading in my car, he got upset and said "Are you just trying to find out the value of your car from us??" And he repeatedly said "are you even going to buy a car?". Before this I kept a calm demeanor throughout his rude and condescending tone, but I couldn't help myself and said "do you even want my business?", which surprised him. When he took me to his desk, he told me that the internet deals are their best deals and they will not go any cheaper and said that the managers will say "have a great day" if I asked them to go lower than the internet price. He took my car keys to have the service guys look at my car and he gave me an initial offer of 3 grand... I made 4 counter offers and finally got them to get to 7000 which was $500 less than its appraised trade in value. Everytime he went to ask he would huff and puff and say "they won't accept this". When they finally got to a reasonable offer, he said "they are gonna call an auction and if they take the 7000 bid, we will take it". Of course he came back and said they took it and then proceeded to say the dealership would be keeping it because it was in such good condition.Through out this he kept asking me to sign his paper with his notes and numbers, meaning that I would promise to buy the car and I kept saying no. When he ran my credit he made me sign two things for the credit check and another privacy sheet, which was understandable, but then pulled out a third sheet and said real fast "And this is promising you will buy a car today" to which I said "I am not signing that till we have everything worked out". After 6 grueling hours, we finally came to terms. The salesman was so pressuring that it made me feel super uncomfortable, I wish I had asked for a different salesman or walked out. If you are a young adult, be prepared to be rudely spoken to, not given any attention, doubted, and pressured.
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