Posted on 12/05/2020 9:55:30 PM PST by SteveH
at least 4 somewhat flashy and expensive optional tires removed.
replaced by what i consider lower quality rims and lower quality (imported) tires
did not change online web page sales photos
how to bargain?
another idea is that i could offer them a slightly lower price AND ALSO refuse to close the deal unless they order and replace the original factory tires with exact equivalents.
those optional tires are probably overpriced to begin with which might be why the dealer is punting on replacing them. this is in the sense that there seems to be a factory markup on many otherwise ordinary looking parts, not to mention fancy optional parts. i have an instinctive dislike of optional factory so called fashionable chrome bling on a pickup truck... ugh...
(another thing i was told was that thieves were stealing tires from the dealer... apparently it is difficult to catch the thieves... yikes...)
About all you can do is make an offer and give them your telephone number. Trucks are high profit items these days. A buddy of mine couldn’t get a dealer to budge on the truck he really wanted, so he bought a different model elsewhere.
> You seem to know a lot about it.
> Did you do it?
Asked and answered! More deponent sayeth not!
(C’mon, man!)
lol
> About all you can do is make an offer and give them your telephone number. Trucks are high profit items these days. A buddy of mine couldn’t get a dealer to budge on the truck he really wanted, so he bought a different model elsewhere.
ya. i might end up with a purple truck with green leather interior but who cares, in the end, it’s just a truck lol...
Another way would be to buy a repo truck which for the 2020 year models should start showing up around now or a few months from now at most... if i can control my truck lust long enough lol...
the common adage is to buy slightly used and avoid the showroom floor driveaway charge...
Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ZDB9h7BLY
C’mon, man!
lol
(Four well-dressed men sitting together at a vacation resort. ‘Farewell to Thee’ being played in the background on Hawaiian guitar.)
Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.
Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?
Terry Jones: You’re right there Obediah.
Eric Idle: Who’d a thought thirty years ago we’d all be sittin’ here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?
MP: Aye. In them days, we’d a’ been glad to have the price of a cup o’ tea.
GC: A cup ‘ COLD tea.
EI: Without milk or sugar.
TJ: OR tea!
MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.
EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
TJ: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, ‘Money doesn’t buy you happiness.’
EI: ‘E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN’. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
TJ: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!
MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin’ in a corridor! Woulda’ been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
EI: Well when I say ‘house’ it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!
TJ: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
MP: Cardboard box?
TJ: Aye.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o’clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o’clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
TJ: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o’clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing ‘Hallelujah.’
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won’t believe ya’.
ALL: Nope, nope..
I’ve been looking around a bit for car deals. I haven’t seen any that warrants my attention. The big discounts come from the OEM..
By God, our lives in Scranton were just as tough and dismal, but some of us knew that a little plagiarism and a few sweet deals over there in eastern Europe could get us in the game! I mean, that’s a storybook, man! Oh, God love ya, what am I talking about?
2020 Democratic frontrunner, Joe Biden, answering a debate question about his record on race. This is an actual quote...
Biden: Social workers help parents deal with how to raise their children. It’s not that they don’t want to help, they don’t know what to play the radio, make sure the television — excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the — make sure that kids hear words, a kid coming from a very poor school — a very poor background will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time we get there.
Moderator: Thank you, Mr. Vice President
-—Zack Beauchamp, vox com, Sept 12, 2019
________________________
Then Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden at a campaign event in Tampa, Fla. on Tuesday [Sept 15, 2020]:
“Cause if you could take care, if you were a quartermaster, you can sure in hell take care runnin’ a, you know, a department store, uh, thing, you know, where, in the second floor of the ladies department or whatever,... you know what I mean?”
-—Ian Schwartz, Real Clear Politics, Sept 15, 2020
you can always make an offer you think is fair
you can bring up the fact of the lesser wheels now
I’d rather have Rodney as Prez than Bidork.
I say walk away.
BTW ask them if they recalibrated the speedometer after the wheel swap.
This is Tranya.
I hope you relish it as much as I.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
(later, he was arrested in a Seinfeld episode)
But he know how much to tip a chambermaid.
Well, I should have pinged you fellers as well
Well, I should have pinged you fellers as well
Easy fix. Have the dealer price
out the cost of the tires and
rims stolen vs what is on the
truck now. Subtract that diff
from the selling price. If
the dealer is unwilling to
do this, competition is stiff,
find another dealer.
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