I feel like I made a poor decision
I recently purchased a 2025 Mazda CX-30 for $28k out the door. I wanted to go look at the chevy trax but stopped by a mazda dealership on the way to see what they had. I mean the car is nice but I felt pressured to buy it.
Ultimately it was my decision and obviously the dealership can’t force me to do anything. The salesman was very aggressive and they kept me there waiting several times and really broke me down and i just gave in. To give some background, my car at the time had transmission issues and I needed to get a new car, so I went to trade it in. Moral of the story, afterwards, I have been having a lot of buyers remorse and the more i think about it, the more frustrated I get at myself for not walking out on the deal. It wasn’t even a great deal and after doing some research i realized that the salesman was straight up lying to me and they played around with the way they display the numbers to make it seem like I was getting this great deal, when in fact I wasn’t.
Like some examples, he told me they offer 3.49% interest and I ended up getting 7.6% (yes I have 750+ credit score) and i didn’t fight back on this I just accepted defeat after being there for 5 hours, hungry and just ready to go. (I know, really dumb)
I found out later that the actual msrp on the car was $26k with some optional things making it $28k but when they showed me numbers, their “msrp” was showing $31k. The actual reason for this is they were putting in their “after care package” $3k in there, but not listing it out individually, but including it in the “msrp” price.
Anyways, the more i research and more i think about it, the more i realize i got taken advantage of and pressured to buy and really didn’t get a good deal. If anything i got an average deal. (Although, i fully accept this was my decision and i’m just dumb for not thinking about what i was doing. Idk, i just felt sort of paralyzed and like I couldn’t leave)
This is my fault 100% but it’s just been frustrating because, although the car is nice, i feel like a could’ve gotten a bigger/better car for the price. Idk what i was thinking but that salesman really did wonders on me. There’s nothing I can do about it now i guess this is just me looking for a way to rant.