A series of back and forth emails and texts where the numbers kept changing, then at the very end that the $1695 delivery charge was to be added on the bottom. I couldn’t get a final price that didn’t “float” and wasn’t willing to make a 12 hour one-way drive up with those vagaries.
When I finally declined the deal it was like 3 days of pestering emails, texts and attempted phone calls from the salesman and his boss trying to get me to come up and they would “see what they could do”. BS. You had your chance.
I bought a truck later that week from a dealer an hour away, and let Kz know.
Could I have possibly saved a few hundred $ or more by continuing the stupid game? Probably. Was it worth 24 hours of driving and a peed-off wife (the truck was for her and she detests car buying) to do so? Absolutely not.
Sounds like some typical dealer games that most of us have seen before. I always buy far away from home (hard to find a truck I like around my area) so I've always had to have the deal worked out to the penny before I'd make the trip to buy one. Some dealers have been better about this than others, but I've been fortunate enough to not waste a trip due to a last minute price change, even if they did try.
I have to ask, what route are you taking from NC to VA? Unless you've moved and haven't updated your info, how could it take 12 hours to make that trip? It doesn't even take me that long to get from NY to NC.
Glad you were able to grab one local and save the trip, I'd love to do that someday but it appears I would have to get less picky cause my local dealers order some boring trucks and don't deal very much at all compared to others.