I bought my Prius through the dealership last fall, and it wasn't too unpleasant. I had decided before I even walked in that I wanted that exact car, and I saw it sitting in their lot so I knew it was available, and it was only an issue of how easy they would make it for me -- this particular dealer made it pretty easy (walked out with the car keys 2 hours later). I think I happened to get a salesperson who I got along with, just by chance.
That being said, the idea of shopping for a car at dealers is pretty creepy. When I have to buy parts at a dealer, because they aren't sold at any other places, they always try to sell me something (as in, a new car rather than selling me a part for a 25 year old one).... and then when you get down to it, they don't know any of the technical answers I want (the problem of selling to an engineer :). Even the dealer where I got the prius has tried to sell me extra stuff when I went in there later to clear up some stuff on the paperwork, and for maintenance. (I have the maintenance done there because they include the first 3 years free -- after that, I'll probably go to the independent local import shop instead). The only other time I've gone to a dealer to actually consider buying a car was to ask them if they were going to carry any diesel models from EU, and they realized that they had nothing to sell me, and I realized they had little interest in meeting my needs. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Sean Korb <[email protected]> wrote: > It's just to protect dealers. Many states have dealers that insist on > protection. Dealers make a lot of money being the only source for the > purchase of a new car and they hope to also be the only source for > service. They do not want a change in their business model. It's not > Tesla per se that they are unhappy with. They're unhappy that if this is > accepted, then their business is essentially moot. > > Fine by me. I've never understood what dealerships do except for inserting > an unpleasant person between me and something I want. I'd buy my car > though Amazon if I could and pay extra just to avoid the unpleasant person. > > sean > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:37 AM, rustybkts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Wow, I thought the US was the land of opportunity and competition. > > > > This is protectionism. What are they afraid of. The future? > > > > I would be very surprised if the UK or even some protectionist European > > countries had these laws. > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-NC-Automobile-Dealers-Association-Bill-would-bar-Tesla-sales-tp4662989p4662994.html > > Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at > > Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > > > > > -- > Sean Korb [email protected] http://www.spkorb.org > '65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382 > "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller > "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130513/d0659a4e/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130513/9cc9f86b/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
