the car business

so who got the business at the car dealership... maybe i did... we started with the car on the lot and when i finally decided which one i wanted to buy, we started talking financing... the sticker price was around (yeah, i forgot to ask for the sticker and they didn't give it to me) $25,000... or more... hey, the model i chose had almost everything in it, after all... and then the negotiations began... hour after hour, the game was played... gears turned, pressure was applied, i almost had the assistant general manager and finance guy (or whatever he might be called... he was going crazy trying to contact banks and hide the screen from me until he realized he had to come clean and showed me all the screens and worked and worked and worked... ultimately his job was to sell me the extended warranty and other extra stuff so the dealership could make money... ultimate he gave me everything he was selling for less than the original cost of the first offer without all the extra stuff he was selling... in the end, i got the actual cost of the vehicle down to $18,365... toyota does not have all of the options i've got listed but this is as close as i can get on their site... mine has more... serious discount just to get me to buy $3000 worth of extra... ultimately, the initial offer was about $28,500 total including everything (and all finance charges(... after agreeing to buy the extra $3000 worth of extra warranty and insurance packages, the end total was $27,500... it took him doing some major work with the banks and major cuts in the car cost and in the end, i pay less than the original offer and get a 10 year full car warranty and insurance that covers the finance charges, among other odds and ends...

and that's the car business...

narf :)