Dealership cartels - horror stories

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Colorado legislators have introduced a bill, clearly supported by dealership cartels, to reverse a law on the books in Colorado that allows direct to consumer auto sales. Ineos (an ICE vehicle), and Tesla are offered here in direct to consumer channels. Polestar allows you to use the automaker website to customize and order a vehicle, as well as upload all qualifying documents before you even walk into the dealership - when we leased our Polestar 2, we were in and out with our new car in an hour.

Post your horror stories of buying vehicles from a dealer, where direct sales would have solved the problem.

I know there are myriad stories of unreasonable markups (Ford Bronco, anyone?), shenanigans like the yo-yo financing scam, and others nationwide that should yank the rug right out from under the arguments NADA and their localized cartel capos are regurgitating.
Yah, read about that and it's horrible. Bet considerable funds are being passed under the table. This is what happens when a party has a ruling trifecta like NM has.
 
We do not operate like this at my equipment dealership in any sort of way. The pricing structure is completely different than it is in the automotive world. But, many buyers come in to see us with their hackles up from bad car buying experiences. We have to try extra hard quite often just to get the customers to know we are not screwing them. On the bright side, we have very happy customers for the most part. Many are repeat and word of mouth. It really isn't that difficult to be honest and transparent.
 
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