Salesman goes into the back for ages to talk to his manager

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Why do some dealerships do this? Is it to make you sweat, worry or think they are really weighing up things for you and its agonising them?

Or does it make you think 'sod this I'm not wasting my time here for 20mins that it took for him to see his manager on the last question'.

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People actually bought Daewoo cars?

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daemon said:

I always try to seperate it out into steps - price of their car then price of our car (or just negotiate on price to change), then on finance terms, then on anything else.

We had a Toyota dealership a while ago that went straight from test drive to finance advisor sitting down INSTEAD of the salesman (who just disappeared) to "see what we could afford to pay". She got chased. Not having that. Far too easy to make a crap discount or trade in price disappear into an extra few pounds a month finance.

Maybe you can successfully get a better deal overall if you let them include other products up front but the problem i have with that is that you lose transparency - you take a £500 product to get an extra discount wen you could get the same product on line for £179. But maybe you're better at it than me

I once popped into a local Ford dealer and asked one question about a Fiesta. I was asked to wait 20mins then a manager with an order form called me over to his desk. He then acted taken aback that I was wasting his time. I felt insulted - all I'd said was 'what colours do they come in'