Re: mazda employee pricing

"Chris D'Agnolo" <cdagnolo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All this employee pricing crap is just another gimic and it seems to
> be working. Now everybody's doing it. Why? Because the average super
> consumer (american) is so enthralled with getting a 'bargain', that
> the mere insinuation that one is available will trot out tons of
> people, mostly paying more than they would have previously, to grab up
> the so called bargain!
>
> Sorry to sound so harsh but these marketting ploys should be viewed
> for just what they are! A friend of mine told me that his dad (a 30+
> yr employee at GM) had purchased a new car every two years
> for......forever. Only twice did he use the employee discount, every
> other time being able to negotiate a better deal w/o it. I'm just
> saying don't be a lemming and go out and sign on the dotted line
> assuming you're getting a super deal.
>
> Good luck,
> Chris
> 92BB&T

I certainly have no illusions that they're giving cars away here. I did
some shopping before the Employee Pricing thing came out, so I have a
baseline. If the program applies to the car I'm interested in (the '06
Mazda 5 in this case), then I can go back and see what difference there
is between what they were willing to do a month ago and what they can do
now.

While so called sales are often times as much hype as bargain, there is
usually something to be gained even if it is less than they would have
you believe. Even if the only difference is that you have to spend less
time negotiating to get a reasonable price, that is still a gain in my
mind. Don't know about you, but if I can buy a car for $x today w/ 1/2
hr of negotiating when it would have taken 3 hrs to get it for that same
$x a month ago, I'm happy that I've just saved myself 2.5 hrs.

-Scott
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