{"id":14634,"date":"2003-08-25T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-25T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/25\/confessions-of-a-car-salesman\/"},"modified":"2003-08-25T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-25T14:28:00","slug":"confessions-of-a-car-salesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/25\/confessions-of-a-car-salesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions Of A Car Salesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a couple of years old, but I imagine most of it still applies.  In 2001, an <a href=\"http:\/\/netscape.edmunds.com\/advice\/buying\/articles\/42962\/article.html?tid=nc.a.landing.buying..4.*\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Edmunds.com<\/i>  writer worked undercover at several car dealerships<\/a> over three months to find out a couple of things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What really goes on in the back rooms of car dealerships across America?<\/p>\n<p>What does the car salesman do when he leaves you sitting in a sales office and goes to talk with his boss?<\/p>\n<p>What are the tricks salespeople use to increase their profit and how can consumers protect themselves from overpaying? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the things he finds out are pretty obvious,  but knowing more about the subtle, profit-maximizing number-crunching and tactics employed by car dealerships is going to come in quite handy the next time I need to buy a car (which hopefully won&rsquo;t be for some time).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106182171274330469?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a couple of years old, but I imagine most of it still applies. In 2001, an Edmunds.com writer worked undercover at several car dealerships over three months to find out a couple of things: What really goes on in the back rooms of car dealerships across America? What does the car salesman do &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/25\/confessions-of-a-car-salesman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Confessions Of A Car Salesman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}