Evaluate dealer listings and script car offers
Customers use AI to assess specific cars on dealer sites, compare prices to other dealers and averages, and produce scripted offers to send to dealerships.
Done with a custom-built or unnamed agent
- What they did
- The thread describes buyers using common AI tools to paste in a dealer listing and get a breakdown of the car’s pricing, estimated holdback, comparisons to local and national listings, trade-in evaluation, and a scripted offer plus replies to likely pushback. In the comments, dealers say the exchange usually stays human on their side: they answer the AI-driven questions, send photos or details, and sometimes the customer comes back with a revised ask the bot generated.
- How it went
- Commenters say the tactic rarely grinds out major discounts: one dealer said an AI-assisted buyer asked for $1,500 off, got refused, then switched to asking for home delivery and an open recall fix, and another said these buyers purchase “like 9 times out of 10” if questions are answered. Others said obvious AI messages get ignored or waste time, and one dealer said a Toyota Sienna sold to someone else while the bot kept looping.
- Worth knowing
- One dealer said closing an AI-assisted deal still took a few hours of texting and sending photos, even though the price did not move.
Try it yourself with Perplexity Comet
Open this dealer listing for a [year, make, model]: [URL]. Compare its price, mileage, and features with similar cars at other dealers within [distance] of [ZIP code] and with typical market averages, and tell me whether it's overpriced. Then write a short, polite offer email I could send to the dealer, with a target price of [amount]. Show me the draft and do not send anything or fill out any forms.
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