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Smart Shopper Buying Tips - How Do I Get the Best Deal?
5170 messages, Last post on Oct 29, 2009 at 11:33 AM
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Replying to: snakeweasel (May 19, 2009 2:42 pm) If you were selling your own car in a private sale, you would be trying to get every dollar possible. Wouldn't you? And the person looking at your car would be trying to pay as little as possible. All of this can be done in an easy, friendly manner. |
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Replying to: isellhondas (May 20, 2009 5:21 am) True but I am also not going to apply a dollars worth of scotch guard to the interior and charge them $100.00, or add $50 just because I advertised the car in AutoTrader nor charge them $250 for $25 in accessories that they don't want just because every car I sell has it. Its' hard to disarm a hostile customer sometimes What about hostile sales people? |
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Replying to: snakeweasel (May 20, 2009 2:53 pm) And hostile sales people wouldn't last long. |
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Replying to: snakeweasel (May 20, 2009 2:53 pm) This has nothing to do with the topic. I think you reap what you sow and I get the feeling that you walk in looking for a battle. What about hostile sales people? They don't last very long in this or in any business.
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Replying to: snakeweasel (May 20, 2009 2:53 pm) But we are way off track, and this has been done to death. Post a buying tip or move on, please.
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Replying to: isellhondas (May 21, 2009 5:28 am) You were the one that mentioned that if I were selling a car I would want to get every dime out of it. I just mentioned that dealers do mark up things like scotch guard like you wouldn't believe. I think you reap what you sow True, now apply that to what dealers reap. |
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Replying to: kirstie_h (May 21, 2009 5:52 am)
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Replying to: snakeweasel (May 21, 2009 1:58 pm) I absolutely refuse to pay a penny for anything the dealer has added on. If they say all our cars have it I say thank you for your time but I can't do business with you. Once or twice they've backed down and just ate that. Usually they will try to discount it maybe 60 - 70% and try to sell what a deal it is. Sorry. Paying anything at all for something I don't want is a bad deal. The sales folks - even the ones at straight shooting dealerships - have to realize that the industry has poisoned the well of good will on this. I spend far too much of transaction time trying to guess how they are going to screw me over in a way I haven't thought of. They do deals every day. I don't. I better be on defense.
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Replying to: fezo (May 21, 2009 6:11 pm) The overpriced dealer add-ons have a cost to them, so you end up paying somewhere for it. If there is $2,000 worth of add-on junk (i.e mop n glow, mud guard, pin stripes, key card security system) and the dealers cost is $400 for parts and labor, they aren't just going eat the loss. That's $400 less you'll be able to haggle off the cost of the car. The local Kia dealerships play that slimy game. They run SCREAMER radio ads almost nonstop. Every car on their lot has $2,000 plus in dealer add ons. Better to just go somewhere else, which I did.
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Replying to: jipster (May 22, 2009 4:34 am) We have a Hyundai dealership north of here who does all his ads as "30% off the posted dealer price." Don't even have to guess that the posted dealer price will exceed MSRP by something like, oh, 30%.
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