Tom wrote:Just wanted to pipe in and say how much I love buying a car with Fighting Chance.We totaled our Subaru a couple weeks ago (or more precisely, someone decided to be a dipshit and turn left in front of us at a light on an icy as fuck day. Seriously, wtf...). No one hurt thankfully, but now we're going for a Mazda 3. FC all the way. I wish there was a way to adapt it to buying a house.We just got a Mazda CX-9 with Fighting Chance. Fifth car I've bought that way.It's super easy, best way by far to buy a new car for sure.There's usually a sales guy who can't just say "no thanks" and needs to tell you how you're supposed to buy a car (hint: not the way you're doing it).This time there were two guys. One guy gave me a quote, and I asked him to break it out into car, tax, etc., followed by "I won't hassle you if I don't hear back." He emailed me thusly:I am not going to participate in your game, I am tired of customers not wanting the dealerships to make any money on our cars, if you want to purchase a car at invoice I suggest that you take at least $2,000,000 and go purchase a dealership!! This is how i make a living and feed my family and I dont need to sell a car to some tight ass. I have no problem discounting cars but will do it for people that live in our community, not someone who cant come into a dealership and negotiate a deal like a man,The car we ended up buying came from his dealership. Another dealer traded for it. Did not get it at invoice...was a grand under. Did not have to buy a dealership for two million dollars.

tmidgett wrote:He emailed me thusly:I am not going to participate in your game, I am tired of customers not wanting the dealerships to make any money on our cars, if you want to purchase a car at invoice I suggest that you take at least $2,000,000 and go purchase a dealership!! This is how i make a living and feed my family and I dont need to sell a car to some tight ass. I have no problem discounting cars but will do it for people that live in our community, not someone who cant come into a dealership and negotiate a deal like a man,The car we ended up buying came from his dealership. Another dealer traded for it. Did not get it at invoice...was a grand under. Did not have to buy a dealership for two million dollars.If you hadn't gotten the car from them, I was going to recommend either posting that to their facebook page, or to your own and tagging the dealership.

HE was a tight ass...

Nate Dort wrote:Tommy wrote:If you hadn't gotten the car from them, I was going to recommend either posting that to their facebook page, or to your own and tagging the dealership.He didn't actually buy it from their dealership though (they just transferred it over to the dealer he did buy from), so he should still do this.Yeah, they have no idea I got a car that was at their dealership originally. That's what was funny.The guy is just a sales guy and I don't want to get him fired or whatever. Just odd that he would give me a quote, then get all aggro when I asked him to itemize it. I guess there's a textbook way to sell people cars, and probably it sucks not to be able to use the regular tricks. But they get enough people just walking in and buying a car.Another car, I had the deal done but the guy hadn't answered my question about these fuckin' floor mats I wanted. They were included in the quote, but he kept evading my question about having them at the dealership. I'm literally on my way out the door to buy the car, and I called to ask him if he can tell me if the floor mats are in stock or if I'll have to come back to get them. He said, "Listen, you can't get blood from a stone. I'm already giving you a great deal, and you can forget about the floor mats. Car's ready to pick up otherwise." So I said uh...I think I'll call the next guy on the list, thanks. He was ten miles farther away, same price, had the floor mats, done. Who jettisons a 25k sale over $100 worth of floor mats that are included in the price already, supposedly? So weird.

I had a lot of people willing and eager to play along when I got my Subaru, but this was timed for the week between Xmas and New Years so I think that they were all just happy to have an interested buyer on the line. No assholes, just a couple flakes.I did however basically just match the same deal I could have gotten on a Subaru if we would have used my wife's Speech Therapist professional organization discount (I think it was 2.5% under invoice or something, pretty sweet deal) so if I get another Subaru and that deal is still an option I will probably just do that because it would be way easier. Also I have been happy enough with this dealer I that I actually for the first time in my life would be cool with giving them repeat business.Any other make, though, definitely FCing like hell.

My wife needs to buy an SUV for work. We re going to try the Fighting Chance thing but we need to figure out what to get first. Are Consumer Reports pretty trustworthy for reviews and ratings? Other ideas?

Edmunds has decent reviews.

llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:My wife needs to buy an SUV for work. We re going to try the Fighting Chance thing but we need to figure out what to get first. Are Consumer Reports pretty trustworthy for reviews and ratings? Other ideas?We've had our Mazda CX-9 for a few years, maybe 30k on it. Really like it.If you want a passenger-leaning SUV.