The public health implications from this law will be daggering.

I’ve only run into a small handful of customers who have done “burner” phone numbers and emails for car shopping purposes over the years. I agree that for the most part, a simple “stop calling” and “take me off of your list” would suffice!

I get teary eyed at way too much with movies these days. Must be a getting old thing. The first movie I remember ever getting emotional at was The Truman Show at the end. Latest movie to make me tear up, TROLLS. :/

Oh man, you bring about good points! Who knows, I mean car dealerships contain within them many different personalities in their sales departments. High turnover, which means high probability you talk to young people who aren’t that experienced dealing with the general public when you go to look at a car or simply to…

I try to remind myself that we are already 6 months into this bullshit presidency, also that I’ve read the Nixon ordeal took something like two years from the first rumblings till his resignation. Also that I’ve read the Whitewater investigation was going on for like 6 years before the completely unrelated blue…

It could’ve been worse, turns out the typo is matzo bad when you think about it.

Eh, I read a lot of the “yes, but” type comments, and I get it, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, good on Joe Scarborough for standing up for something. If I had to guess, I bet those two wanted to stand up a while ago, would’ve preferred that they did but gotta take the support under any circumstance these…

Cool, I just read that article for the first time! My current store signed up with one of those companies that sends in an outside rep to work a weekend “sale” in conjunction with a mail piece that they furnished and sent out for us. The outside rep that worked at our store identified himself as a “factory…

Great question. For the giveaway type of stuff, like we do “free ski lift tickets” promotions in the winter months up here for example, there’s almost never a problem. If someone just wants their free lift ticket, no problem, no attitudes from me as this person may someday wish to look at cars here.

My current dealership GM brings this consumer mindset up at the meetings. You may not see all the dealers “shut down” in the future, but you may see a pivot toward full embrace of the digital age by dealers who know how the car business is changing, which means you’ll eventually be able to do what you wish to do with…

Wow, thanks for a nice reply...I gotta couple of snarky ones (I totally understand why). Dodge/Ram/Chrysler, Ford, and GM are the worst with all of their incentives...we have had Dodge/Jeep/Ram stores in my area advertise sale prices including rebates that are not combinable with one another before. That’s probably…

True on all fronts, and appreciate the nice reply from ya. I work in a market area where dealers routinely flood the airwaves with “absolutely no money down” lease deals and the vast majority of those local ads are always “plus tax and MV fees.” Thankfully, we are required to leave out things like “conquest” and…

Hey Steve I don’t disagree and I definitely feel for you if you’ve ever been ripped off or otherwise had your time wasted at a dealership during the car buying process. A couple of thoughts.

Yeah, I’m guessing you’ve dealt with some dealership bullshit in your day. Not excusing that at all! And on behalf of the weirdness that is “the car business” I’m sorry if you’ve ever been either flat out ripped off or at a minimum have had your time wasted by dealers. I hate it myself when dealerships try to corner…

Car salesperson here...Thanks for actually taking the time to break down a manufacturer’s lease ad special!! All too often I sit down with folks who have been driven into the dealership from that eye-catching payment they saw on the internet, but they didn’t catch all the fine print. Writeups like this give us…

No shit, that movie ruled. So freaking funny.

I can’t believe the asshole I remember from fuckin Pat Robertson’s “the 700 Club” is one of our fuckin president’s lawyers.

I love your columns. In order for the Democrats to have a chance in hell of rebounding is to number one assertively implement the 50 state strategy, leaving no stone unturned. Number two, simplify the message down to the two main issues affecting the country going forward, which would be as you have said many times…

Car salesperson here. I agree 100% with the fact that the average American Consumer can’t do math real good....for all the wonders of the smartdevice, I would add that 9/10 consumers have no idea what a financial calculator is and that there are financial calculator “apps” that can be used to fact check your car…

Your favorite South Park episode has got to be the one where Cartman shits out of his mouth.