I put in an internet quote request for a G35 and here's the verbatim response.
Keep in mind I asked for absolutely nothing special .. just clicked (chose option on website) for colors and clicked "submit for quote request".

Quote:

Sorry but we do not have the car you are looking for and have been unable to find a close match in the area. Good luck with your search. Jeff

No mention of alternative options or how long to special order or nothing. [sm=WTFsgign.gif]
Guess it blows my theory that car salesman will use any trick in the book to sell you a car straight out the water. bahahaha
Must've just broken up with his g/f or something. "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines"

 

you should forward it to Infinite headquarters and see what they say! hahahahhha

 

Actually, my dad got the same **** with a certain Infinity dealer in Grand Rapids, MI except my dad actually came in, ordered the car, and was given a time frame for delivery. My dad calls after the delivery date had come and gone. Salesman didn't even remember his name or the car he ordered.

My dad went to a large dealer in Chicago, ordered his car, and got it in a week.


2 weeks later the dealer in Grand Rapids calls saying they have his car. He told them what they could do with it.

 

haha wow..... call the manager of that dealership

 

WOW!! talk about great service huh? I would have a couple of words for them.

 

being a finance manager for a car dealer and a prior doing the "internet car sales: for the dealership i car say that interent sales SUCKS in the car business....you email back person after person with your best prices after working the best deal you can do, only to never hear a word back from them. the close ratio is like 1 out of 150 at best. its really bad. and no way to differentiate the real people from the dreamers/teenagers/credit challenged. that being said.......he did a ****ty job regardless of the situation.

 

I will never buy a brand new car again, i sold cars after high school for 6mo. I was great at it, not to mention i was selling Chevy Trucks in Oklahoma. Which is like stepping on **** in a toilet, really easy. But after seeing how "upsidedown" people get and cant get out and just carry over thier loan into another car i will never do it again.

No point in buying a brand new car, when said car is 30k and you can get one with 10k miles on it for 20k.

 

I understand that Hayden and appreciate the insight. If you have any other special tricks/tips on getting the best deal please let me know. I've read every buying tip stuff I can get my hands on and they all still claim starting the process via internet will still usually get you the best deal. I thought it's supposed to be a buyer's market, this guy acts as if he doesn't need any more sales.

All that said, this guy is really a true PRO!!! hahaha check this out. I sent him a reply, not because I wanted to buy there but because I wanted his employer to know what a fantastic job of selling he's doing (I blind emailed the General Manager) .. I certainly would want to know if one of my employees was putting forth this kind of effort. Here's my reply and his reply back (keep in mind I had initially told him that my brother had already made an internet purchase there last month .. which he can easily look up by my last name to verify)

 

Yeah, I can see internet sales being hard...it's just too easy for the shopper to sit at home and get quotes and not have a salesman trying his a$$ off to get you in his office and approved for a loan. Last year I was sending emails to about 6 local Nissan dealerships looking for a Frontier. Most of them blew me off, and one kept trying to sell me a Mitsubisi Raider after multiple time of me saying "NO". But one dealer actually tried pretty hard to find mea truck and get me a good deal. And then after a couple weeks of correspondence I changed my mind and went bought used. I did feel bad since the lady tried pretty hard and was really good about getting back with me. But at the same time I hate salesmen. Why can't we all justpay the sameprice for a vehicle?

 

^^Oh, good point bass, I forgot to mention I got the preapproved loan online at the same time as asking for the quote and gave him the reference # to show I was serious and not tire kicking.