Re: How I hate buying a car

Posted by js305 on March 12, 2016 at 18:25:25 from (70.195.207.97):

In Reply to: How I hate buying a car posted by John in La on March 12, 2016 at 17:49:38:

I feel your pain. Bet there is nothing I can tell you that someone here hasn't experienced.

Funny story, happened in 1996 but still applies. My daughter was about to graduate from college and was going to buy her first vehicle, by herself, and wanted me to go along to make sure she was OK with the deal.

Unknown to me, she had done her research and knew what she should be paying for it. She was looking to buy either a Jeep Cherokee or a Dodge pickup. We were going to look at a pickup. She had the model and accessories picked out, but we were going cold to the dealer with her list. We get there and catch the first vulture-er-salesman and she starts telling him what she wants. He starts steering her in a different direction and she stops him short, asking to speak to another sales person. Her words "evidently you don't listen well". I figured we would be leaving soon. But nope, we get a guy who has a tag that says sales manager on his shirt. OK, we find a new one still on a transport truck that matches her list. Now comes the fun. They unload it, put some more gas in it, said they only put 3 gallons in at the factory, and let her drive it around the block with shipping plastic still on part of it. We go in and they start that stuff about initialing a piece of paper saying we intend to buy it, etc. She tells him she came to buy a Dodge pickup, and nothing else. She put numbers in front of the guy and he says he can't do that without authorization from his boss. Hmmm...now I thought we were leaving for sure. She asks "which one of these guys is your boss?" He points someone out, and she picks up all the paperwork and heads that direction. She ended up buying that pickup, drove it almost 200,000 miles, and sold it for cash to someone who has put another 100K on it. She got it for the number she was asking for too. Was it a good deal? Dunno, but it sure was fun watching it happen. She showed me documents she had found where estimated actual cost was given and what a dealer should be expected to make. She figured they made about $1000 plus whatever rebates the dealers get for volume, etc.

And she wanted me to come along to make sure she didn't get taken........

Now, as far as my buying experiences go, they are much like yours. I have bought three brand new vehicles, and a bunch of ex lease cars and trucks that had maybe a year's worth of use on them. Had pretty good luck with those. The new cars were a pain, walked away from more than one moron/liar on a deal.

Good luck, and don't buy from a friend. Money dissolves that friendship faster than anything.

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