"Call for price"

halfafish said
I have a low tolerance for car salesmen, so when I was shopping for a new truck I v-e-r-y clearly told him to give me his best price, and that I was specifically NOT going to play the ping-pong game as he went to his supervisor, then the manager, then the sales manager, then the general manager, all fiddle farting around on the price. He gave me a price, I told him it was higher than I wanted to pay. He said just a minute, let me go check with my sales manager. He came back and the price was the same so I said thanks and got up to go. He says wait! I'll talk to the general manager! I walked out with both of them chasing me across the parking lot wanting to continue the negotiations. I had to resort to the kind of language that is impossible to misunderstand, to make sure they knew why I was taking my business elsewhere. Stupid ***** that don't understand plain English...

Sounds like my Dad. He always told the salesman "Give me your best price" and made his decision on that. One of the cars Dad bought came down between a '66 Chrysler T&C wagon and a Mercury wagon. He started with the Mercury, got a price. Went to the Chrysler dealer, $300 less, bought the Chrysler. A couple weeks later he ran into the Mercury salesman on main street and the salesman asked what Dad decided to do. Dad said he bought a Chrysler. Salesman asked why. Dad said $300 cheaper. Salesman says that they could have met that. Dad just grinned and told him that apparently he didn't give him his best price. The salesmen do it to themselves.

BTW, that '66 was one of the best cars I've ever had the pleasure of driving.