Freebies from dealership?

Free Subway sandwich.
Dealership has a Subway restaurant inside.

 

My dealer skimped out on the lube when I bought my truck...

I'll give that one a second to sink in..it's early.

 

I bought my 2020 AG Pro from a relatively small dealership that only got 1 AG Pro allocation. They told me up front that they would not sell below MSRP (my local dealership was adding a $5K adjustment on the AG Pro they offered to sell me and many dealerships were doing the same). But, they did give me/install the following accessories at no charge: Power Tailgate Lock, Bed Lighting Kit, Bed Mat, Door Sill Protectors, Mudguards, Predator Steps and Black Tailgate Inserts.

 

Freebees from the dealership? Surely you jest! TANSTAAFL. Since 2018 I have received endless free unwanted emails from the dealership and from Toyota. I also still get endless free phone calls from auto warranty companies. If you got "freebees" you paid too much.

But the positives outweigh the negatives: I got a good truck at 0% for 48, an outstanding price, THOUSANDS below MSRP, a price that would not only allow me to look at myself every morning in the mirror and smile, but at a price that allowed me, still today, to be PROUD of myself, knowing that I had not tired and given up and given in and paid MSRP. Or, even more treasonous, over MSRP, turning my back on my fiduciary responsibility to my family and our retirement, just to get me a truck TODAY...but with some "freebees" they threw in to help me get the taste of the dealer's dick outa' my mouth.

Rather, the freebee I got is what I value most, and you should too: the opportunity to ride up upon the dealer's lot and eagerly bounce out, with a smile on my face that they can see through the showroom window that telegraphs to them that I have arrived and I am looking forward to the fray, then walk in, professionally, and figuratively begin burning their crops, riding their horses and breeding their women. And require them to like it. (At least their women did. ) And it was great fun. It should be for you too.

I drove them as the dust before the wind, and you should too. I made them hate that they ever got into the auto "binness" in the first place, because I was better at their game than they were. Your greatest satisfaction in buying a truck should be driving off of their lot after you have laid waste to their profit motive, after pissing in their shrubbery on the way out, in a truck you stole, knowing that you made them confront the stark realization that they will go bankrupt if they continue to make deals like the one you just made them agree to. Then and only then have you done your duty to your family and yourself.

And if you don't carry this admittedly arrogant but necessarily confident attitude into the dealership with you, you are going to have to be happy with them "giving" you stuff that you think is free. It's not. The concept is called TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. And there DAMN SURE ain't no such thing as DEALER FREEBEES! You bought it by paying too much. Be smarter than that. Be professional. If they are still being professional and nice to you, it's because they are winning and you are losing. They get testy when you finally have them by the short hairs. Be above the fray, but be about the fray. Start months before you need the truck, not the day you need the truck. Wear them down. Walk out. Be Jackie Gleason:

 

well said

 

Now THAT'S a deal!

 

They did not even have the decency of using some vaseline.