<prompt> Human: My pregnant wife almost got scammed buying a new car yesterday. Now Im not sure it you would coin this as a scam, but we definitely feel like we were played at the dealer. So this is what happened... btw, this was at a Nissan dealer in the Bay Area.Looked on TrueCar app and found a great deal on a new 2016 Nissan Sentra and the app said the best deal for an SV model is 16405. MSRP: 18,550. We arrived at the certified dealer, and showed the number, and the salesman lets call him Robert was very helpful and agreed with pricing. By agree, I mean he said in his mouth to both my wife and I, I can get you this car 16405 plus taxes and fees no problem. I said great, and we started test driving the car, it was a decent car for 16405 we thought. Great. After test driving, its finally time to talk about numbers. Sat down, took a couple of minutes and filled out an application form and for credit as well. Robert asked what we wanted to put down, and we said 2000, took our applications and gave it to his manager to run our credit. When he came back, I took a look at the paper and saw the sale price of the car as 18995, and a 1500 rebate bringing the car sale price down to 17495. I looked it over, and my wife also said that something looked off because the sale price of the car was supposed to be 16405 with or without rebate. The paper showed that we would be financing over 18K with 0 APR for a car thats supposed to be 16405 taxes fee - 2000 down payment. I should only be financing 16K because of the 2000 down payment that covers the taxes. If the sale price of the car was 17495 counting the rebate, then adding all those numbers up 17495 X 10 TAX FEE 2000 would mean the car out the door, we are paying a little over 21,000, when it should be only 16405 tax fee. where did the 3K extra come from?.We went back to Robert and said shouldnt the sale price be 16,405 like it says certified on TrueCar before we came here, and he replied saying that he will check with his manager. His manager who announced his title MANAGER and played tough, came in rude and said that because he offered 0 APR financing and rebate, that discount counts towards the 16,405 TrueCar certified price. So, we asked him, if someone paid cash would they be able to get this car at 16,405 taxes and duties, and he diverted and didnt answer that question. So with that in mind, 16405 1500 financing APR, would mean the car selling price is not really truly 16,405 as certified on TrueCar... did bait and switch just happen?I knew he was playing games, so me and my wife got up and immediately just left.Were not crazy right?  <response>: Something worth noting: a buyer who needs a car right now is what they are banking on. BY needs I mean either just had their car die, or who has made the decision that the current car is too dangerousa piece of craptoo oldtoo ugly insert other good or crap reason here... the point is the decision has been made. Because the buyer is psychologically invested in getting that car NOW to get to work tomorrow or just because the dealer is at an incredible advantage. They will milk this to no end.The best time to buy a car is when you dont quite need it yet. This way, you have the option of noping the hell out of there if anything is weird, annoying, dumb etc. You must maintain the nope factor to keep the upper hand! 