> but otherwise they know you know what you're doing and they'll make very little money on you This has the air of "That One Weird Trick" that used to work in

> but otherwise they know you know what you're doing and they'll make very little money on you This has the air of "That One Weird Trick" that used to work in the early 2010s before everyone had heard of it. But now that it's the lead paragraph in every single "how to buy the exact car you want, for so much less money" blogspam, of course it no longer works. I'm not sure why people expected it to continue when the entire business model of car dealerships is to turn suckers into money. "Having to interact with a dealership" is around number 4 or 5 on my list of why I will never buy a car again, after years of not having one.