[Fat Charlie]

Telling them on the phone what another dealer offered you isn't a quote that will get you $1000. Do you think you're going to get another dealer to give you an actual written offer to sell an identical car just so you can take it there?

The hidden charges aren't hidden. If you can walk in to a new car dealership and not need financing and a trade to make the deal, then you probably didn't get pulled into the dealership by that ad.

I did the "call around" back in 05. I told the factory website what I wanted and got emails from 9 dealers. Only 3 were offers for the car I wanted, the rest were "come on in and see our lineup". I called the two with higher offers and told them I had been quoted X, and they both said to take it.

No muss, no fuss, no waiting around. My third call was to the dealer that had given me the good offer, and I bought the car. The really funny bit was they had to swap or it with one of the other 2 stores, whose ad tagline at the time was "we will not be undersold!"