On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:31:26 GMT, Grumpy AuContraire
<Grumpster@GrumpyvilleNOT.com> wrote:

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>dgk wrote:
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>> In early July I decided I wanted an Orange Fit, and went to my current
>> Honda dealer who quoted $19,000 without tax (Sport Model). I asked why
>> it was so much over list and was told that there weren't many and that
>> they could deliver the car and other dealers couldn't.
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>> I went to another nearby dealer and was surprised that I could order
>> it at list, so with tax the whole thing came to just about $18,000,
>> $2300 cheaper. I posted at the time a thread called "Will My Fit
>> Arrive" because I was unsure.
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>> My salesperson, Mazen, gave me a card with someone else's name but
>> wrote his name and number, so I guess he was new. Three weeks later I
>> went to check on the car, and he was no longer working there but I was
>> assured that the car was on order and should be in in a few weeks. I
>> even added the choice of Silver instead of Orange because they said
>> the Orange one was very difficult.
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>> At some point I started another thread, "My Fit NOT Arriving" and
>> accused the dealer of bait and switch, and Elmo, properly, castigated
>> me for being inaccurate. He was correct, I think they just had no
>> intention of selling me the car at that price and if I bought another
>> one, that is ok with them. But I think what happened was that Mazen
>> did something that he shouldn't have done and they weren't going to
>> fill the order.
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>> Yesterday I called Honda USA. They told me that 9 weeks was a long
>> time to wait and that Paragon Honda had only one order for a Sports
>> Fit outstanding, and it was Black and much more recent. There is no
>> evidence that the car was ever ordered.
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>> Now I don't know if HUSA is accurate but it would seem that they would
>> know what is being ordered. At this point I'm cancelling the order and
>> I'm curious as to what you folks think about this chain of events.
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>Car dealers like real estate agents, doctors, lawyers and politicians
>are all bottom feeders having little in the way of ethics...
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>JT

Too general. In most things there are good and bad. My doctor is a
dedicated guy who is simply one of the best people I know. I work for
a public defender office and the lawyers here are also very good
people, working for less than they could get elsewhere.

My aunt was a real estate person and did her best to sell houses
fairly, without regard to racial steering or other crap. There are
also decent politicians who really care about the public good, but
they get corrupted by money pretty quickly.

There are probably also decent car dealers but I haven't found one
yet.