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Replying to: greanpea68 (May 19, 2008 6:15 am) If Ford will give them 15,000 for it, just take it in and drive it over to Ford. I'm just sure they will happilly write them a check for it! Yeah...right!
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Replying to: isellhondas (May 19, 2008 6:45 am) I remember about a year and a half ago we had this woman come in with a A4 that obviously had a sludged 1.8T motor. I was honestly afraid to drive it around the block because I thought it was going to die at anytime and I told her that. We end up offering her about half what some Honda dealer up in mass offered her. She has all the paperwork from the other dealer and they are over charging her by several thousand dollars on the used accord she is looking at buying. I am charging less for mine and mine has nav. We explain all this too her and tell her to try and see if the other dealer will just buy her A4. She says she will try that and leaves. I don't have very much confidence in the whole thing but you never know. I call her the next day and she is taking her A4 into the Honda dealer that evening. I get a call back from her that they bought the A4 for what they offered for it and she will be in to buy our Accord later that week.  Turns out she got up to the Honda dealer and they started back pedaling right away when she got there. She started a screaming match with someone there and at the end of it all they agreed to buy the A4 for essentially what they offered her for it originally minus a few hundred bucks. They probably lost four or five thousand dollars on that A4 if they managed to get out of it before the engine popped. |
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Replying to: mackabee (May 18, 2008 7:55 pm) Don't play that game with me. You're not THAT young.  Richard
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Replying to: mackabee (May 18, 2008 8:00 pm) There's just no accounting for taste here.  Richard |
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Replying to: richard64 (May 19, 2008 7:06 am) BR - cool. The Rock Cats are in the Eastern League which is a cool minor league. You get to check out the Binghamton Mets, the Portland Sea Dogs (Red Sox) and the Trenton Thunder (Yankees - it just kills me - they used to be the Red Sox) and all sorts of fun teams. I'll be overnighting in Danbury Friday into Saturday. If you were in the neighborhood I'd let you buy me breakfast.... Heading up to see friends in New Hampshire for Memorial Day despite $4 gas.
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Replying to: jmonroe (May 18, 2008 8:04 pm) I have to confess that I have been a tight a$$ for years. I was a teacher, remember? That's why I recognize all of your tactics.  I brag to every one if I get a $1.00 off a box of Tide. I'm the one in front of you in the check-out line having his coupons counted and checking the cash register tape against my calculator. Mrs. Richard is standing there complaining that people are waiting to check out. Speaking of coupons, I had one for $1,500 off a new Chrysler that I purchased new in 2004. The coupon had been in a local newspaper ad. I played it slick. I didn't show the coupon until the negotiations were done and we were sitting in the F&I's office. Neither the SM nor the F&I guy knew that the coupon was in the paper. They went to show the coupon to the boss.. The boss hadn't seen the ad either. None of them were happy about it, but they honored it. I bet that either the newspaper or the dealer ad writer got raked over the coals for that one. Richard |
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Replying to: fezo (May 19, 2008 7:24 am)
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Replying to: fezo (May 19, 2008 7:24 am) |
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Replying to: fezo (May 19, 2008 7:24 am) Allow me to explain it to you. These old groups add younger people to the team who take their direction from one or two of the remaining old timers. For example, the Platters only have one original guy who really joined the Platters after they got started. He was a young teen at the time. He's probably in his late 60's or early 70's by now, but sounds terrific. The older ones train the younger ones in the "old sounds". That way, the group keeps going. Other groups, like the Coasters, the Embers, the Tams, the Zodiacs, etc. have done the same thing. Sadly, with the Carpenters, there was just no replacing Karen after she died. She and her brother were such a wonderful pair. Have a great trip. Richard |
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Replying to: british_rover (May 19, 2008 7:41 am)
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