Anybody here with car sales experience? Been shopping for a new truck and without fail if it looks like I'm not going to buy right that moment, the salesman always says "hang on one second" and then drags over the "sales manager" to meet me. Then the manager will try to rehash all the details again, say glowing things about the truck, and ask things like "so what are you going to be doing with the truck?" etc. For the life of me I can't figure out what is the purpose of bringing out the sales manager. Does it really help convert sales? All it does for me is make me angry that I have to go over the same questions again for no good reason, and also makes me feel a bit patronized that if I say I'm not sure about this particular purchase then having some random other guy at the dealer say nice things about the truck will then make me decide to buy it.

I spent a couple winters doing sales for a local small used car dealership. We did not operate that way, we couldn't get away with it. Where we live its more like here are the keys drive it for a day and if you like you can pay for it when you bring it back tomorrow. But occasionally when a local guy was looking for something particular we would work deals with other dealerships in bigger towns to get what they wanted. Even in that scenario which was not handled the same way as a customer walking on the lot, but much more of a regular business transaction, they were almost unbearable to deal with.

Read up on “four square” car sales.

https://www.consumerreports.org/consumer...how-to-beat-it/

What brand truck?

Was looking at a 2018 Nissan Titan today with just 5000 miles on it. Had a 2006 Titan in the past and it ran like a champ for years so thinking maybe another one but in the updated version. I also like some of the features on the F150's and Rams, but every other vehicle here in Idaho is one of those two it seems.