Stupid stupid stupid!!!

Some friends of ours were car shopping. I'd been helping them to make an informed decision on what they want/need. Apparently yesterday they decided that waiting wasn't doing it anymore and bought a brand new car.

$5000 market adjustment!!!

On a flipping Subaru Impreza?!? Oh the idiots!! And of course I can't say anything to them about it. Or the $1000 "extended warranty", or the $500 "paint protection", or the $250 "edge guards".

The skezeoid dealer sales jerk fed them every line in the book (we don't know when more will come in, we can't order any, there's other people interested, can't keep them on the lot, blah blah blah) and they bought it all hook, line, and sinker.

Stupid!

Rant over, thanks...

You can lead a horse to water.........

Wow. Just... WOW. I've seen the blatant markup before, but on a regular Impreza? Sheesh. Did they take the window sticker from a BR-Z by accident?

They could have funded three challenge entries just with the markups!

I've tried to help friends buy cars for years. It doesn't matter. They go all gooey over a car and start shoveling money at it. They should save that kind of devotion for the people in their lives instead of the things but they don't. So don't feel bad. It was inevitable.

Why can't you say anything? I would absolutely make fun of them. I'd lead with "How much can you sell that for today" or "I could have robbed you of $2500 and you would still be better off!" every chance I got. This is probably why I don't have any friends.

you can lead a horse to water.......

All the Kias here had a $3000 dollar market adjustment on them. I saw Rios for almost $20k. And they were the only dealer with people in them.

I'm done buying new cars. berkeley the economy. I can't afford it.

Yup. I gave my mom all kinds of flak for stupidly trading in her 4y.o. fully payed for Corolla to buy a 6y.o. Prius with several thousand dollars on top with the hopes that she'd be saving money.

Sometimes people listen though. When my fiance went to buy a new car we hunted a bit and found a couple year-old RX-8 nearby that still had a couple years and healthy amount of mileage left on the warranty. She was very pleased to pick that up for several thousand less than what a new Ford Fiesta would have cost.

Well, we've never done this before. But seeing as it's special circumstances and all, he says I can knock a hundred dollars off that Trucoat.

you can lead a horse to water..........but sometimes you have to push the berkeleyer off a cliff to make it drink.

I can't justify spending more than 4000.00 for a car. Period.

cwh wrote: I can't justify spending more than 4000.00 for a car. Period.

I'm in this boat from now on, i think. The one time i've done this, i've been thoroughly disappointed in all ways possible.

Subaru's distribution system is a little wonky. They don't operate like other automaker's so some dealership really can't order more in until they've proven they can sell what they have.

Then those dealers turn around and charge a market mark up.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Why can't you say anything? I would absolutely make fun of them. I'd lead with "How much can you sell that for today" or "I could have robbed you of $2500 and you would still be better off!" every chance I got. This is probably why I don't have any friends.

Because they are SWMBO's friends, and I want snu-snu.

Wow, is that bigger than the monster markups on the Toyobarus earlier this year?

Javelin wrote:

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Why can't you say anything? I would absolutely make fun of them. I'd lead with "How much can you sell that for today" or "I could have robbed you of $2500 and you would still be better off!" every chance I got. This is probably why I don't have any friends.

Because they are SWMBO's friends, and I want snu-snu.

I make fun of SWMBO's friends all the time and I still get.... wait. aw, damnit! :)

Seriously though, you should say something to the wife so that it will get back to them via the SWMBO filter. They should know they screwed the pooch so they know not to make the same mistake later or perhaps to go back to the dealer and raise a little hell.

Javelin wrote:

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Why can't you say anything? I would absolutely make fun of them. I'd lead with "How much can you sell that for today" or "I could have robbed you of $2500 and you would still be better off!" every chance I got. This is probably why I don't have any friends.

Because they are SWMBO's friends, and I want snu-snu.

Want to share with us the name of the stealership?

Yeah, uh... The dealer probably also already scheduled their first service appointment. You know, to swap out the air in the tires for fresh air, to put another coat of paint protectant on so that the first coat doesn't wear off and void the warranty...

they got the "Hank Hill" deal... good for them...

I went in the local dodge dealer because i saw they had some new darts and I hadnt seen one yet. There were at least 20 of them on the lot, and the one I looked at had a $22k sticker price and $5k market adjustment. I wouldnt but one anyway, but I told the salesman that I was going to leave because I wasn't much impressed by the markup and id come back when they were ready to actually start selling them. BTW I have only seen one on the road so far, so I think other people may not be impressed either.

Smell that capitalism!

Osterkraut wrote: Smell that capitalism!

Nothing wrong with charging what the market will bear. It's not like they have monopolized the market on cars or anything - there are plenty of choices out there and plenty of chances for this buyer to have known what the berkeley he was doing.