Living the American Dream

Monday, April 30, 2007

Infiniti and Beyond

Those of you who know Ross personally will know there is nothing more important to him than securing a bargain. He has honed his craft over the years in England, but was a bit concerned about trying it out in the U.S. However, with two cars to buy he had to put his foot down, if you'll pardon the pun.
After much dithering, as usual, he decided on the right vehicle at the right price. A silver willow Infiniti G35. Of course a minute later he found a slightly better model at the wrong price so began negotiations. The salesman was actually very pleasant, although somewhat worryingly called Rich. Turned out he was orginally from Poland, which could explain the less than ferocious sales technique.
Eventually we were led inside to his desk, where the figures were ironed out. Naturally they ended at a few dollars more.
"I'll just have to speak to my manager," Rich said.
The manager, oddly enough, looked like a work experience kid in his father's suit which was two sizes too big.
As a special favour he brought the price down by a whole two dollars or similar. Not enough.
So as the future author of Car Buying for Dummies, Ross stood up and we made for the door.
We were convinced Rich would come running after us. Ok, so maybe he wasn't playing that particular game. We made it through the doors and round the corner.
"I thought he was supposed to run after us?" I hissed.
Ross turned his head slightly.
"Sshh, I think he is.."
I don't know which of us was more surprised, but he did indeed fetch us back in and we secured the price we wanted, which to be honest was about half what you would pay in England anyway.
Of course the garage probably would have sold it to us at 25% less than we did pay if we'd have put up more of a fight, but don't tell Ross that...

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