Buying a car experience
Mitoshi Matsushita a.k.a. Baby Mit
Ginaree wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to negotiate a price on a brand new or used car
>
> in Bangkok?
>
> If I bought a 97 Toyota Corolla, let says the price is B200,000; what
>
> is
> the deal I can talk to the salesman?
>
> This is an educational questionaire. Most Americans (White) would
> not
> and refuse to wait on Orientals (Asians) in the US. It is my
> experience. I went to 15 dealerships and found only 2 dealers who
> would
> talk to me. I didn't understand and thought that they were
> unprofessionals.
>
> Then I had been told by a few salemen,
>
> "I would never wait on the Asians, Iranians, etc. The price
> is
> never
> good enough for them. They would keep negotiating..."
>
> That is their problem. I don't know how to negotiate or
> never
> negotiate a price since I really don't know how. But I would like to
>
> know how they do it in Asia.
>
> I would like to educate on this subject and it is a cross
> cultural
> exchange.
This individual is lying! One has to wonder what her purpose is for
posting multiple copies of this article and then answering herself
with more multiple follow-ups of the same nonsense. I'm curious
as to whether or not this individual has ever really been to the U.S.
or perhaps this is just another mud flinging campaign.
This person has posted nothing but lies! I'm studying in the
U.S. for the second year now, and, two months ago, my dad
bought me my first car. The experience that we got at American
dealerships was totally contradictory to what this person has stated.
We visited car dealerships in Houston, Dallas, Austin, and Lubbock,
and the experience was the same at every place. Their salesmen
would come flying out the door to greet us before we could even park.
And they all seemed to have this common practice of nonstop blabbing
just to keep us interested. The salesmen that my dad and I spoke with
were all very cheerful and considerate, and many even called me up
when we didn't return to their dealerships. We never came across
any unhelpful or racist salesmen like Ms Ginaree claimed she did.
Even if most salesmen at U.S. car dealerships were racist, do you
think for one moment that they would turn away potential customers
and, thus, lose their commisions? Think about it! We don't go into
car dealerships to spend two or three hundred dollars. The average
price tag of an automobile in America is about US$30,000. Does
anyone actually think that a racist salesman would refuse to sell
someone
a $30,000 merchandise simply because the buyer is of a particular race?
I don't know which U.S. car dealerships Ms. Ginaree visited, but
hers were certainly not at all my experience. I got a
Seville STS while Ms. Ginaree wanted a Corolla, so I guess
that might help explain her alleged mistreatments. :-)
Arvind Mathur
This is utter nonsense. I have recently bought a car. I thought the
dealers were very professional. They have to make a profit and you have
to pay the right price. Well in my case I had done my home work and the
price came down $2000 in a second. Business is business. But overall the
experience and followup has been great. America does not discriminate
where it concerns the greenback only on color.