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When I bought my car (ford focus st), I had a company discount in my back pocket. so we went through the whole negotiation phase with the dealer and I got it down to a price I could swallow and right before I signed I pulled out my company discount slip and the salesman who was working with me was super upset, but honored the discount on top of our negotiated rate. 1. fuck dealerships and 2. dont use your morals with salesmen.

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Car salespeople are almost as sleazy as ERP and database salespeople. :-)

The company discount is why dealers around Detroit are amongst the richest in their communities.

Dealers are richest in their communities everywhere due to the anticompetitive franchising laws.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/opinion/sunday/rich-happi...

True. The company benefits just compound this.

For the majority of very small towns in America, the richest family is probably the one that owns car dealership(s). They have a geographic monopoly so they haven't had to compete in the rollup of retail, banking, etc.

What? If you live in the very small towns of America you drive 30 minutes to 2 hours away to the dealerships in bigger towns which are usually owned by people far away.

That guys rich too

> ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning apparently, not Erotic Role-Play.

That's a good one :) At least he played it cool.

I once had a company discount from BMW, and they just refused to honor it. I hate dealerships.

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