How To Avoid The
BUMP and GRIND Car Dealer Scam!

This car dealer scam happens during the negotiation process of buying a car off a car lot.

Its a common sales technique used to incrementally 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 incrementally 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 inevitably tell you some bogus line like: “Gee, I know my boss will kick me out of his office if I take this offer to him, so how about if we raise it (bump it) by $150.00 (or whatever) 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 he or she will go off to supposedly present your offer to the sales manager and supposedly argue on your behalf.

Just know that there isn't any big presentation of your offer going on. Instead they are probably sitting on the john reading the sports page!

This series of bumps in the price and then grinding you to cough up more money is known as the Bump and Grind car dealer scam. Get it?

You can avoid the bump and grind car dealer scam by telling the salesperson that you're aware of and 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.

Another thing is to get free no-obligation new car prices BEFORE you ever go to a car dealer from Edmunds, Ford Direct and Cars Direct.

You can use these new car prices as a reference for negotiation, so make sure you print them out and take them with you.

Click here if you want to read about MORE CAR SCAMS that are quite different than the bump and grind car dealer scam.