Experience haggling with Processing fees?

[why?]

I'm sorry but it is a waste to negotiate before you test the car. Negotiations should last for hours, and you are wasting your time if you negotiate and then drive only to find you cant stand the car. Test the car first.

any advertising, shipping fee or other is bs, and if the salesperson really wants the sale they will drop them.

tax title and tags are a must though.

especially if you have 3 dealers do everything you can to drop the price as much as possible.

[specialeducator]

Originally Posted by why?

I'm sorry but it is a waste to negotiate before you test the car. Negotiations should last for hours, and you are wasting your time if you negotiate and then drive only to find you cant stand the car. Test the car first.

any advertising, shipping fee or other is bs, and if the salesperson really wants the sale they will drop them.

tax title and tags are a must though.

especially if you have 3 dealers do everything you can to drop the price as much as possible.

I suggest test driving as a separate visit from negotiating. Or better yet, look for internet pricing and minimize in-person negotiating.

[auxmike]

Try before you buy.
You want to make sure you try the exact stock # car you're interested in.
Why negotiate for something you might not want after trying it?
Salesman may not even want to deal till you see if you like the car in the first place!

[RedRide]

Originally Posted by auxmike

Try before you buy.
You want to make sure you try the exact stock # car you're interested in.
Why negotiate for something you might not want after trying it?
Salesman may not even want to deal till you see if you like the car in the first place!

That is exactly the point. Your position should be that your not shure you even want to buy the car so why test drive it?
It is the salman's job to convice you to want it and test drive it by striking a good deal with you.

From experience, sales have found that once a persone test drives a car they are more likely to purchase it. IMO, you weaken your bargining power a bit once you test drive it.

If a salman wont deal with you until you test drive it, see anouther salesman as the first one is really inexperienced. I don't want to deat with a saleman who thinks it's too much trouble to give me a good deal unlees I take the bait of test driving the car in question.

[jambo101]

Originally Posted by why?

Negotiations should last for hours,

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I remember shopping for a RAV4 for my mom and the dealer(Sun Toyota NPR Fla.) refused to talk about the car until i gave him my name,phone number and address, when i refused to give him this information he refused to negotiate with me so i bought the car at a different Toyota dealer up the road (Village Toyota ,Homossassa Fla)