One would think that car lots would be eager to sell a car but it turns out it's harder than it should be. The crazy thing is I have the money to pay for the car in full. Well, sort of. I have 80% of it in cash. The salesman told me when I picked the car out that they could take a credit card but when I gave him mine he wanted to know if it could run it through as a debit card. Why would I write you a check for a partial payment then have you withdraw the remainder out of my checking account via debit card?
I told him I could finance the remainder until my needed funds are deposited but he couldn't tell me which credit reporting agency the dealership would use. I told him I needed to know to unfreeze my credit. The sales manager said that he would have their bank call me and I could give the bank my info. I said "no thank you". I have my credit frozen for a reason and I am not giving my information to a stranger so they can circumvent the process and gain access to my credit without me unfreezing it. I'm not playing that stupid game.
I has now been ten days since I first tried to purchase a car and I still don't have one and it will be sometime after Christmas before I have the opportunity to get it. If the dealership had been truthful about the credit card bit it would have saved me a trip to Greensboro.
If I could have waited until the first of the year I would have more than enough cash to get the car outright but this is the vehicle I have been searching months for so I really hate to let it go.
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