Absolutely, and I wouldn't bait and switch either. I was just chuckling at your calling this "reading the riot act" and "torturing the sales staff" and describing yourselves as "merciless buttholes" for doing it. I'd just say you were clarifying how you will make your purchase decision, so that the salesman would know what he had to do to win your business. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me, and probably appreciated by the salesperson when they get a lot of customers who are into game playing.
What do you find brilliant about that, or did you mean it as sarcasm? Glad it worked out for you. I won't work on that basis--either here or with stores that do "price matching"--I want to reward my business to the person who is willing to offer me the best deal, not the one who will offer me such a deal only if I do the leg work to find out what the best deal available elsewhere is. I'm not familiar with that. What kind of threats? I'd immediately write off any such salesperson and report to the dealer why I would not consider doing business with them. There is no justification for threats. Sounds like a reasonable offer, and the salesperson apparently agreed. I would think that an asking price from any other dealer probably included at least that much fat unless it was a heavily discounted model. Presumably you went in armed with dealer cost info (or more accurately, dealer published cost info)?
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