Pretty Woman

Posting in Reddit's "Malicious Compliance" forum under the username u/Karamist623, the woman wrote: "[A] car dealer told me to come back when I 'knew what I was ...

"When it boils down to it, it's just a car," she said. "Stories like this really make my day!" "They don't use the word, 'humiliated,' but that's what they felt—I know it. She also recommends creating a budget. The website says you have one," u/Karamist623 said. So, she left and found the Jeep elsewhere. Yet, a 2019 survey from AutoTrader revealed that 94 percent of women don't trust dealerships, and 40 percent "dread" the car buying process, reported Erin Baker, a member of Lamborghini's Female Advisory Board. It's on Jeep's official website. The salesman insisted that the car u/Karamist623 was looking for didn't exist and then told her to "come back when [she knew] what [she was] talking about." In her post, u/Karamist623 said she visited a dealership a few years ago in search of a "special edition" [a now-viral post](https://web.archive.org/web/20221006103651/https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/xwz9dy/car_dealer_told_me_to_come_back_when_i_knew_what/) that she once had a "Pretty Woman" moment with a "sexist" car dealer. Part of this mistrust, says Baker, is rooted in the fact that women feel "disenfranchised;" female consumers want to be "respected," not "patronized" as u/Karamist623 had been.