saint_monkey | car woes (concluded)

So, we had about had enough of car dealerships, but we still needed a car. So we went back home and looked at some other "similar" cars to the Accent on Autobytel.com. One of the things we came across was the Saturn SL series vehicle. We had overlooked it before as too expensive, but the base model was just a little above our price range. So we did the same thing we had done before, gathered the options we wanted, looked at MSRP for that car, worked out the budget, found a local dealer (Saturn of Bellevue) and I went out in the morning (once more, in the rain) as sort of an advance scout. Ther prices on the sticker were the same as the ones we scouted on the net (with a slight allowance for profit. Now I don't want anyone to think that my previous diatribes are part of my usual anti-capitalist rants, and i'm trying to short the often troubled American Auto Industry. I'm not going to begrudge anyone thier profit, as long as it's fair. A certain amount of profit is good for everyone. But greed for greed's sake really drives me crazy, and dealing with your customers in a manner that insults thier intellegence and frustrates them intentionally is a simply foolish thing to do.) In any case, our experience with the Saturn dealer was actualy quite painless. I noted as I said before, that the prices were in line with what I expected, and that the model with options and color that we wanted was available, and to my suprise, a special financing rate (1.9%) is in place until the end of August, on the exact model we wanted. So we bought one.

Mystery says that the lack of dealer hassle, and the delivery on each and every promise without any obfuscation was one of the main reasons that Saturn got our business.