The series of bumps in the price and the attempts of grinding you to spend more money is known as the Bump and Grind scam. Here is how this car dealer scam happens and how you can avoid it.
The Bump and Grind scam happens during the car buying negotiation process. It’s a common sales technique used to gradually raise the price of the vehicle. If the salesperson tried to raise the price by $2000.00 right off the bat then you would freak and run out the door.
So the technique of gradually raising the price by just a little here and a little there is much more subtle and quite effective.
When you make an offer on a car, the sales person will certainly tell you some bogus line like: “Hmmm, my boss will kick me out of his office if I take this offer to him, so let’s bump it by $200.00 and then he will at least listen to me?”
So that’s the first “bump” and on it will go. The sooner you succumb to the “Bump”, the more bumps in the price you can expect. Then the dealer will supposedly present your offer to the sales manager and supposedly argue on your behalf.
Just remember that such scenes are just simple auto scams designed for making you believe that you’ll make a great deal in case the sales manager agrees to the price offered by the sales person. Finally after about quarter of an hour the salesperson will come back and say something lame like: “That sales manager is such a hard head! If you could just agree to add another $250.00 to your offer then I’m almost sure he will agree to your price”.
You can avoid the bump and grind scam by telling the salesperson that you’re aware of it and are not amused by their games and that they are just wasting their time and yours and if they continue with the bump and grind car dealer scam that you will just leave.
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