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Originally Posted by aklim
Well, in retail, the dealer has to make sure that everythign is within spec. You are a lying bastard that put heavy oil into your engine to mask the rod knock. Now he discovers it and has to fix it. My friend traded in a car when the ABS was not working and fixed by taking the light bulb and the AC system is shot (traded it in during winter). Guess who pays for that too. My sleezy freind and I know that there are metal shavings in the tranny. When that is discovered, guess who pays for that. I bought a car retail. There was an exhaust leak we discovered. Guess who paid for it. Guess who paid for the diff leak fix? When it sits on the lot unsold, who has to eat the loss? Well for all that, why shouldn't the dealership pad it's price too? You go retail but do you pay retail? I bargain it down.
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This is all true. 2 things though.
1. Why doesn't the dealership take the time to evaluate trade-in's properly? They could weed out 90% of those cases before they happen, making the whole business cheaper for everybody. The reason is money. Why not charge everybody for the 5% of crooked a-holes out there. It is making a dishonest profit by being lazy and cutting jobs.
2. People do that to dealerships and feel justified because dealerships have been screwing people so badly for so long.
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