That happend to me as well. The dealership refused to give me my keys back after a ridiculously lowball offer on my Prius and the "mirrors and cup holders" treatment on the car I was test driving. I was literally trying to climb over the counter to get them while the guy held the keys up and laughed at me. I had to…

Oh, the horror. If the daughter has any brains, she'll say "yep, like many teens, I acted like a spoiled brat, got punished, learned from it, and grew up." Next.

When I was buying my car, I got pre-approved for financing from my credit union, which they offered at a full point below anything I was hearing advertised anywhere else. Knowing my interest rate, I did a lot of research online before I went to any dealerships, and had run the numbers over and over again, so I walked…

My sister once had to threaten to call the cops and report being kidnapped when the dealership wouldn't return her car keys (she was planning to trade in her car) or let her leave the office. She has a pretty strong voice and I'm sure was heard throughout the dealer's office. Does stuff like that happen to men? I've…

Crap like this is why it is worth it to use a car-buying service like AAA or Costco, or to go in and test drive, but then buy from the online dept. You get a price guaranteed and don't have to deal with the idiot lying salespeople. I bought my last car using the Costco service and it was so easy. You research what car…

As the service manager said that about my mother, I was still driving her hand-me-down car that she gave me for college and the original clutch lasted 270k + miles thanks in part to her driving.

I had to walk out TWICE when buying my Mazda. The worst part was when I'd looked at and negotiated a set price for a specific car on the lot, but 30 min later they claimed they mysteriously no longer had it and the only model similar would cost me at least 3k more. When I not only walked out but drove away while they…

I had a dealer ask me, while we were discussing pricing and options, how much my "daddy" was willing to pay for a car, since he "noticed that I'm not married". It was like an Onion article it was so ridiculous. And for the record, I was shopping by myself and was 25.

I have had the "hard sell" on the warranty thing too. My response is to say "I am not interested in a warranty, and if you bring it up again I am walking out of here and you will lose this sale that you have been working on for the past hour and a half."

OMG!! Holy crap. I didn't know that physically threatening behavior and trespassing were accepted means of completing a transaction.

For my first car purchase, I initially went with a stick shift. To make the sale, the salesperson took me to a nearby parking lot to teach me how to drive a stick. I spent two weeks looking, negotiating and getting driving lessons with that salesperson. The car I wanted had to be shipped from across the country, so…

Eons ago, a twenty-something me walked out of a dealership because they tried to do a bait and switch on the sales paperwork. As I was leaving, the salesman stood in the doorway to block me from leaving the office. I finally got past him and rushed to lock myself in my car. He then stood behind my car trying to keep…

My all time favorite example of this was an acquaintance's mother who as VP was charged with buying a new fleet of vehicles for the company. She did some research, went to the dealership, did test drives and talked specks, and finally settled on a car, but before she could explained that she wanted a dozen of them,…

Yep. I love these assholes that are all "gung ho" for the free market and then insist that they can't do business with wage transparency when one of the first fucking rules of functioning free markets is symmetrical information.

I got my first car after I graduated law school and ended up with a Nissan because I was treated similarly by a Honda dealership. I was leasing, not buying, and the sales guy straight up lied to my face about the amount of local and state taxes for leasing, telling me they were much higher than they were when I…

I followed this back to a ThinkProgress article on the same study, which then sent me through the interwebs to this article from the Globe and Mail. It's worth a read.

My worst car-buying experience: I looked at a vehicle, got approved for the financing of the vehicle, and went back the next day to seal the deal. When I returned, the car had been sold to someone else. The asshole salesman tried to tell me that, because I was approved for financing, I HAD to buy a car from them. I…

I am in sales, and I have male buyers trying to pull fast ones on me. All. The. Time. I put on my big girl panties and call them out on it. Immediately. It's the grade school bully thing all over again. Punching a six yr old boy worked then, and the verbal equivalent works now.

I got a dragonfly tattoo when I was 27, and I loved it because it was so simple and in the princess area on my ankle. I waited to get this done, and it was my first tattoo ever. Now, I realize it looks like a dildo with wings. I've got to get this thing corrected with a better tattoo.

No tattoos myself, but I dated a guy who had several prison tattoos, a naked lady, some gang tattoos that were covered but the one that took the cake was a tattoo of Taz from Looney Tunes. Yeah hardcore badass there with a Taz tattoo.