I just have to vent my thoughts on the treatment that i received at a car dealership yesterday and just wanted to know if anybody else has had similar or worse experiences.
So on Friday afternoon, me and a friend decided to go and test drive a Hyundai Tiberon. We went to the dealership in the North East and we were looking at the car in the showroom. We wanted some service but nobody acknowledged us for a long time. Finally, a salesperson came over to ask if there was anything that he could help us with. I said that i was interested in test driving the car . He looked at me and asked my how old i was. I told him my age (which i will not disclose but i am over 21) and he said that i could not test drive the car because i was not over 25 and their insurance policy does not cover anyone under the age of 25 who test drives a vehicle.
I was infuriated with that comment and my friend asked how i was supposed to be able to make a judgement about the car if i could not test drive it. The salesperson said that i could get my parents to test drive the car since they would be buying it for me. He just made the assumption that i would be requiring my parents to buy me a vehicle. When i said that my parents are not buying it for me, he then suggested that he could drive the vehicle while i sat in it.
At that point, my friend made a snarky comment about them probably not letting me buy the car since i was under 25 and that we should just go to the other dealerships.
I think that a lot of people at dealerships don't tend to take young people seriously because they don't think that we can afford the cars. It just makes me mad that the salespeople make a judgement about who they think can affor a car or not.
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