While looking for my FR-S I ended up dealing with one sales manager who was big into pressure tactics.
Her shtick was that if I didn't purchase the car that day her "nephew" who had transferred colleges was coming down the next day to purchase the car before he headed off to school.
To add "credibility" to her claims she was even "nice" enough to show me her text conversation with her "nephew"...
Two things I immediately picked up on were that:
1. The text conversation the sales manager showed me was between the sales manager and her "nephew" Rebecca (odd name for a "nephew" don't you think?), who had as "his" phone picture the image of a 30+ something year old woman.
2. The date on the messages were over two months old... While the car had only been on the lot for less than two weeks.
Needless to say I walked out...
The kicker though?
I noticed a few months later that the dealer still had the car on the lot (suckers!).
I tried calling the sales people I had initially dealt with to see if there was a deal to be had (and politely call them out on their bluff) but couldn't get a hold of anybody...
So on a whim I decided to stop by the dealership again - and lo and behold the dealership was under new management, and having caught wind of the sales tactics of a certain sales manager had decided to let her go!
While I didn't walk away with the FR-S that day - I came back about two weeks later and closed on an out the door price that was $2,000+* less than what I would have paid had I walked away with the car when dealing with Sales Manager #1...
*Dealer price dropped the car twice from when I initially looked at it and ended up purchasing it, I ultimately convinced them to come down further waive some of their fees - explaining how I had been tracking the car for a while and knew that it had been on the lot for few months
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