Funny story, and how car dealers work...

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About a month ago, I was at local Chevy, used to be Hummer dealer too. Oh I will add, that the big cool looking H buiding is still intact next door from when they used to sell Hummers there. So you would think these guys know their stuff... You'll see later why I bring this up...

I was looking at Corvettes/Camaros and I eventually get talking with the general manager who has worked there forever... I had my H2 there (he knew I was NOT looking to trade it in) and he said "we sell those like crazy, we can't keep them on the lot. So I know he was serious because every time I see one on the lot, it does go pretty quickly...

Fast forward to yesterday, I was driving by there with my 08 that I have for sale and thought "dumb idea, but since I'm here, just in case, you never know, see if he gives me a decent price outright without a trade for it"...

He starts off saying "we cant sell those H'2s" followed by "I had a guy come in with two 2010 H2's to sell me to me today and the seller was shocked to see how little they were going for at auction" ...so the deal didn't go through...

Now I dont think I have ever even seen two H2's driving around town here in one week, so of course the chances of someone coming in with two ANY YEAR H2's, the same day are astronomical, never mind the odds of someone with two 2010 H2's...

Of course I know he was lying and I said quite nicely, "oh they didn't make a 2010 H2, they stopped making them in 09". I figured he was gonna say oh sorry it was an 08 or 09 or even an H3, but no, to my shock a small disagreement pursued. After a bit he actually got up and walked across the room and came back with a NADA used car guide and was pretty shocked to see no 2010 in there. I said "it's ok, I understand how this works and it was a nice try though"... He really didn't know there were no 2010's, he was just trying to lowball me with that story of course..

Almost immediately he goes back to saying they still can't sell them, how little they are worth, but can still give me about $10k under trade for it!!! So end of story.... Crooks! ...LOL...