# Why is the car sales profession so sleazy?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-car-sales-profession-so-sleazy/1013958>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 6, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-car-sales-profession-so-sleazy/1013958 "2025-02-06T16:25:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 35

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-car-sales-profession-so-sleazy/1013958/35 "2025-02-06T20:21:43Z")

</div>

Recent thread, asking mods for a merge:

> [@Trying to buy a used car from a dealer. Are they insane or off or just me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-buy-a-used-car-from-a-dealer-are-they-insane-or-off-or-just-me/1002536/222):
>
> Several years ago I was shopping for a small inverter generator, and a local motorcycle shop had a Yamaha generator in stock. This was a $900 item so a cash transaction for me, but the young salesman (maybe 20 year old) pulled out the 4-square and was attempting to get me to finance it, and raised the selling price to $1300 in the process. I laughed at him and walked out.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-car-sales-profession-so-sleazy/1013958)._