zich6
ArboristSite Member
i read wonderfully, i just have selective vision.
everyone understands you are mad about the 1st dealer leading you on and not following through.. but thats where the understanding stops i think.
i would have never called a stihl rep and had them calling my local dealerships trying to find me the same deal some guy (who doesn't even have the saw in stock and clearly had no means to follow through with the said deal) half heatedly made and couldn't follow through with. the first dealer was an idiot apparently, cut your losses and move on to the next one. no reason to get stihl reps involved trying to finagle a deal for you, that you have no proof ever existed. even if it did.. it was made at a specific dealership in which they are in charge of their profit margins (which you already knew).
you cant see gas for sale on the other side of the highway for 10 cents cheaper, pull into the station on your side and argue that they should sell it to you for the same price..it just wont work. if i was a dealership and had a stihl rep call me on behalf of a customer who was angry i wouldn't give him the deal he wanted.. the stihl rep calling would only further aggravate me and i wouldn't even wana sell the guy any saw at that point
to answer your question, ive only bought one BRAND NEW IN BOX saw in my life, and i bought it from a fine member of this forum here, so Ive never actually walked into a dealership and purchased a new in box saw, sorry, Ive bought many other things though, one local dealership wanted almost $90 for a 20" laminate bar and chain setup... so instead of calling my stihl rep and whining, i went to another store and bought it there
Again with the reading. I never said I asked the rep to call a dealer to get me the same deal. What I did say was this "The SMA rep called another dealer to try to get me the same deal I had with the original dealer, but was unsuccessful getting the dealer to honor a reasonable deal - less than 10% off." I called the rep to see where my order was. Since he's good and helpful he volunteered to see if he could get me the same deal somewhere else. I never asked him to, but when he offered, I accepted.
"You cant see gas for sale on the other side of the highway for 10 cents cheaper, pull into the station on your side and argue that they should sell it to you for the same price..it just wont work." As I've explained many times, Stihl does allow their dealers to haggle. That's why the car dealer analogy is more accurate than Walmart, gas stations etc...
Since you refuse to answer my question about paying DSRP for your saws, I have my answer, you don't and you just want to argue, so keep it up I can hang with you.