it's honestly a waste of time and a dumb model that still exists. you have them jewwing down the value of your car, so you haggle over that shit. then you have to haggle over the fucking price of the car you're tryiing to buy, and then you have to argue over the hidden addons they didn't tell you about until near the end of the discussion. you play some jew game of going back and forth with the manager for "hours". And then when you finally nail down a price for both, you get sent to the finance nigger who's trying to sell you warranties at +200% markup because of COURSE he gets a cut as well, whether you came in with your own financing or not you now have to haggle with this turbojew as well.
So fucking annoying. I'm shopping for a specific model car as well right now and just don't want to deal with it. I see a "deal" for $26k, 66k miles at a local dealer. They've lowered it by $2k since it's been on their lot for a month. What does this mean? It just means they're going to try and jew me on the trade in even harder or have hidden addons as we discuss price and then I've wasted hours talking to this retard. They're not going to let you get it inspected at a mechanic so you're still taking that risk you're buying something with minor problems...because the other big dealer near me is explicitly known for selling cars with problems and then when the customer complains, they take it back (minus documentation fees ~$1000) and just sell it to the next sucker and hope they don't notice. All of this has me coming extremely close to just buying from Carmax. It's a little more but there won't be any haggling on trade-in or price, I can get it inspected, 10-day buyback period no questions asked and if you buy their extended warranty it actually covers shit unlike assurant.
fuck dealerships. such an outdated stupid fucking model. I don't do this dog and pony show at gamestop or anytime I'm literally buying anything else in the world.

>looking at a car
>65k miles, $28000, considered a "fair price"
>also tacking on a $1788 reconditioning fee (in the fine print)
They show this fee on every car on their website. What're the odds of getting that waived off? Carfax says they did the brakes (no rotors) and tires. Pads are $170 and the tires are $890. Idk, going from $28k to $30k makes this a bad deal all of a sudden. I maybe should just wait. There's new ones popping up on cargurus in my area every week and a different dealer actually has prices at "good" deals. Just some are nearly 75k mileage or higher and I was hoping to get one a bit lower.