[sjwright]

I always thought it was weird that we negotiate a price with new car purchases. I do negotiate hard on my cars (and on behalf of family) and I hate the process. It's stupid. I'd much rather the manufacturer nominate a fixed price and not allow any negotiation at all. Then the manufacturer would be forced to pick a price that competes with the market.

There are only a few things that excite me more about a Model 3 than electric cars from established brands (particularly the upcoming Kia Niro EV) and a big one is the sales process.

[ghaff]

There are no haggle dealers and have been no haggle brands from time to time. One problem is that the people who like and think of themselves as driving a hard bargain don’t like the inability to do so

[sjwright]

For those people who like to drive a hard bargain, they can do what everyone does with every other expensive commodity—wait for the time when sales numbers are dropping off and take advantage of sharper prices.

After all I'm not saying that car makers can't have "deals" but the price of any new car for sale—on special or a regular—should be published and not negotiated.

[mikelward]

Last time I bought a car, the "no haggle" dealers like DGDG were about 10% more expensive.

[squish78]

RIP Saturn

[jjeaff]

Those that truly do know how to work the system should be able to get a better deal. Subsidized of course by those who are not good at it. Or who don't care.

[marssaxman]

Where I come from, we call those people "assholes".

[oarsinsync]

Or a store should be selling goods at the same price to all consumers, instead of giving some consumers preferential pricing over others if they know the right hand-shake.

Consumer price discrimination isn't something that should be occurring.