I traded in my old car and purchased a Honda CRV from Nissan of Reno; I worked with Jason Tate and Carlos Garcia. After looking at a financed deal, I offered a cash price of $10,750 plus my trade-in. Tate ran off and came back with Garcia. After going over the numbers, the deal was accepted. I went over the paperwork with the finance manager, signed the documents, and left with my new car. Two days later a different manager called and informed me that they were "missing $2000 on the deal." I was totally shocked. I informed him that they would not get one more dollar out of me to which he responded, "Check the paperwork, the $2000 is written into your deal." So I checked the paperwork and he was right! The $2000 was written in as a down payment. Who has ever heard of a down payment on a cash deal? Somehow, three grown men who do this job every day had "missed" the $2000, including the "finance manager" who smoothly went over the paperwork and skipped the downpayment line. Now I know to
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