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Ugh! Kia guy would have pissed me off.

It sounds like a bit a work if you really wanted to test drive it, but could you have moved your car seat from your own car to the car you wanted to buy? I've purchased a car and I definitely would recommend doing a test drive. If I didn't want to deal with moving the car seats, I would have asked to do two test drives. One with the DH drives the car and I stay back at the office with the baby and then switch when DH returns. (If that is possible without disturbing the baby.)

As for your question, you could tell them that you are just looking and come back another time. I don't think there's a way to find good car salesman. Well, unless you look on yelp and see if anyone recommends a certain salesmen, but even then I could see it being relative.

I would call the manager and tell him that I am interested in this car but would like to go on a day that X employee was not there. I'm sure the manager would be more Han willing to accommodate you. Or, just show up and ask a different salesperson to help you. We went to the Nissan dealership a handful of times and no one really remembered us enough to know who we were working with.

As far as the guy asking you to test drive with your baby...he probably doesn't have babies. i can understand why it would sound crazy for him to suggest that, but maybe he honestly doesn't know better. My brother wanted to move my car out of the way to let my sister out of the driveway and took my son with him. I had to run after him because he didn't see the big deal. I think it might just be one of those things that people don't notice until they are in the situation.

Good luck

Oh, I would also recommend moving the car seat to the car during your test drive. It's a pain, but you really should see how you like the car with the car seat in it. We had to see if we were okay with the spacing between the car seat and driver side before we bought our car

@Corduroy: @Ms. RV: this is a good idea and is what my husband did before we went to dealerships last year. We just got lucky at the two places we went to and found people who weren't too pushy or crazy like the first one sounded.

It is definitely a hard gig to be a car salesperson and be good at it, but I would still say something to that employee's supervisor or to them so that they have some feedback. Then I would not go back to that dealership or if I did make sure it was a different salesperson. I can't handle people being pushy or rude like that. I also usually take a bit of time to decide about things and would prefer if someone wasn't calling me to harass me.

If you don't like the person you get you can always request someone else or just go back another time (I know that sucks if you are reluctant to get to the dealership or your hubby is).

@lawbee11: We bought our last two cars through the Costco program. It was the first time buying a new car for us and I thought it was a good experience. I personally liked my Honda sales woman over my DH's Toyota salesman. Nothing creepy about him though.

We also purchased our last car through the Costco program. It was great! We got a decent price with very little effort. I would definitely recommend it.

@Corduroy: we went to 3 Honda dealerships before we found someone we could work with! We knew we wanted a Honda so we just shopped around, we liked the guy so much we have purchased our last 3 cars through him!

Definitely file a complaint about that Kia dude. That is not Ok.