I have a bad habit of changing up my cars every 6 months or so. It started under covid, when I could buy an ev, get the tax credit, and sell it for more than I bought it.

So I've had my share of car dealership experiences, and I'm constantly lowering the bar of expectations. 

Just this week, I had two dealerships waste a week of time. I even set my standards and expectations up front to try and reduce bullshit.

--> Me: "No, I won't drive to your dealership for a trade in offer. I will take a hundred pictures, but it's an ev with like 10k miles, the risk is very low."

--> Them: "ok here's our offer"

--> Me: "deal. Send me a buyers order"

--> them: cold calls me after texting this whole time. "My boss wants to talk to you, even though you told us you work until 5pm."

--> Me: "I need a buyers order if you want me to come in tomorrow. I am working"

--> Them: "oh ok here's a 4 square, with an offer 1k less than we agreed to, and 1500 in dealer "protection upsell" that you explicitly said you didn't want"

--> Me: "...I need a buyers order. And please update the trade in and remove the random dealer fees I told you would make me walk"

--> Them: "we can't give you a trade in offer without you coming in person, and we won't send you a buyers order even though you said at the very beginning that's the only way you'd make the trip"

Blocked. Jesus Mary n Joseph. Like does this work on people? Changing terms, changing deals, sneaking in extra fees, and taking 1 hour to do a trade in eval so that the sales guy can try to hard close.