The line - Nice and excruciating. Everyone was bey...

The line - Nice and excruciating. Everyone was beyond pleasant, but it still ended up being a 5 hour marathon. All the usual gambits:
Work everything not to let you leave the premises to shop around
Repeatedly pitching cars beyond the parameters you clearly spelled out.
Coming up with a viable candidate vehicle only at the moment its clear you are bailing.
Trying to put your trade-in into the mix before you settle on a price.
Try to get you to give them a monthly payment you'll settle for rather than straight price negotiation.
Now in my 50s I've done this drill enough to ride it through, but it never gets old at getting really old. When it was done I had a nice car at a price I felt was not a rip-off, but there was no triumph in it because the same outcome could have happened in half the time if everyone stopped the gamesmanship.
Did I say that everyone was really, really pleasant?