Or, you know, just used paper forms instead. Like a big-boy business that plans for things to go wrong.

I have more redundancy in my internet connectivity than this pipeline has for its entire business.

How did they bill customers before computers?

What makes you suspicious?  My spidey-senses aren’t pickup up any issues with them, other than them being tinted, which feels like it was period-correct in the JC Whitney / Pep Boys catalog.

I just loved how normal it looked on the outside. No Gaudiness or Gauche. It’s just “yea I can do 250mph, but I enjoy long walks on the beach”.

Oh man I loved this thing as a kid growing up.

What you’ve described is simple mathematical calculation that pretty basic software can perform. What am I missing here? There’s a zero percent probability that a dealer is actually looking up the various county specific tax rates. They put an address into software, the answer spits out. If they can’t figure that out…

I hate to see these stories, especially from this site, on a weekly basis essentially accusing every aspect of dealerships of fraud and shady practices.

Calling BS on this. If a salesperson doesn’t want to quote registration fees (and perhaps tax), I get it because those can vary across counties. I have successfully shopped cars by emailing competing dealers with exactly what I want, asking for a out the door quote without tax and tags. Since those are set by the…

How does having a customer sitting in the dealership lessen that complexity in a way that his sitting at home and waiting for an email or telephone call does not?

Hahaha what a crock of shit, fuck you.

I’m sorry, but this is nonsense. I buy way too many cars, often out of state. TT&L is complicated, I will give you that. Sometimes it creates some minor extra headaches for me that usually end with a refund. It’s just part of the territory.

Taxes are a set rate and are a 3 second Google search away. Titles are a set price that are a 3 second Google search away. So the only way to interpret your drivel is that “we need to rip off people to make ends meet”.

I’ve done that, HYundai is basically ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“I hate to see these stories, especially from this site, on a weekly basis essentially accusing every aspect of dealerships of fraud and shady practices.”

Perhaps consider that it’s really not that complicated, but things have changed and dealers now have to do more work or perhaps even just “different” work to make a sale. Sounds like you help do some of that work for the clueless or lazy dealers. But don’t get salty when your clients are shamed for shameful behavior.

What on earth are you talking about? As complicated as TTL may be, nobody is complaining about getting ripped off over that. Nor are those costs negotiable anyway.

You’re an angry elf.

The system is so complex that the dealership is unaware of the price for the car?

If over the course of several hundred deals thoughout the year MOST dealers get it right and have no problem sending out the door prices, even on out of state deals...the problem is not the “complexitity of the system” if a FL dealer refuses to send a quote for a Florida customer, especially when their competiton can…

Geeez, talk about over sensitive. It’s not like he complained about the Thai Monarchy.