Similar experience. With a recent car purchase, the dealer's management was ready to let me walk at the end, even though the price was posted on the internet an

Similar experience. With a recent car purchase, the dealer's management was ready to let me walk at the end, even though the price was posted on the internet and verbally reconfirmed. This was simply because I "revealed" that I would not be financing it. Worse came to worse, and with the tacit consent of the salesperson himself I ended up financing it - maxing out the amount I could put on an AmEx in order to bank reward points, and paying off both the AmEx and the entire loan balance as soon as I received my first payment notice. As it turns out, they receive a kickback from their financing partners if the loan is held >= 90 days. So, in the end, I got the car I wanted at the price I wanted, plus some cash back from AmEx, and minus a whole bunch of wasted time by everyone involved.