I hate car shopping.

[spookyevilone]

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Tell me about it! That Guy wouldn't know a starter solenoid from a camshaft. I'm the car nut. Yet, by virtue of being female, I'm a second class citizen.

Next time, I'm going in there in grease covered overalls with a wrench in the back pocket.

Oh wait. There I go, being a stereotypical lesbian wannabe again..

-Spooky

 

[congdon476]

I know- disgusting job to have to have. I hate dickering over cars. Someday I'll pay cash- cash talks. My dad will pick out a car he likes, look over the "true price" of the car, add a percentage for dealership and walk in with a pre-written check for the amount he will pay. He sits down, says "This is the car I want, here's the check." Waits for the guys response. If he says "Well, we can't do that..." Then my dad picks up the check and starts to walk out saying "Thank you for your time"... 9 of 10 times the sales guy gets all apologetic and then gets the manager and suddenly it's very do-able.

Once they did this for a car for my mom in California. The guys picks up the check and goes to talk to the manager. Comes back without the check or manager and starts trying to dicker the price. My dad asks for the check back, they'll go elsewhere and suddenly the sales guy doesn't know where the check went, it's with his manager. His manager is on the lot somewhere. Had to threaten to call the police to get the check back! It's sad how low they stoop to try to make a sale.

 

[AllChookUp]

Tara - Your first post is both funny and sad. Why does car shopping have to be such a (expletive deleted) game???

Good luck!

 

[spookyevilone]

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I don't know. It's driving me nuts. I should really confuse all of them and start looking for a 4x4

-Spooky

 

[lovemychix]

I feel your pain. I bought a bed a couple weeks ago for my son and you should have seen the dude I dealt with. He was a moron. I almost asked to see the manager.

 

[congdon476]

You could always buy a car from someone local or through Craigslist. My husband actually sold his old car on Ebay! Go to your bank, get the loan money, and then find a car. NEVER use the financing from the car people... it's usually a rip off and has a lot of fees attached to it. You bank that you deal with daily will be more likely to give you an auto loan. It might not be much if you don't have credit, but it's a start. I have heard that having at least one credit card that you use once a month and pay off each month is the best way to build credit. This way you don't really use it, but it shows you can be trusted to pay it back.

 

[spookyevilone]

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I don't trust banks anymore. I had an ex-tenant walk into Wells Fargo, without any sort of picture ID, drain my checking, open a new one, and then transfer it away from Wells a week later to an offshore account. The people involved at that Wells were fired, and the ex-tenant is now in jail for a very long time, but I still haven't gotten my money back. This was over two years ago, and it's still going through all sorts of FDIC loopholes.

So I have a Money Network card and pay cash for everything.
-Spooky

 

[bluey]

I haven't been to a dealership in many years...

If you don't have to have a car brand spanking new, go to Enterprise.com

They sell basically new cars with a varying amount of miles on them.

They have "no dicker" prices and they will transfer a car from another area if you find one on their webpage that is not in the immediate area.

They inspect them and give a limited warranty.

After you pick out your car, go in and sign papers and that's it. It took me less than a half hour once I picked the car out! I've never had one problem with any of their vehicles.

I'll never shop anywhere else again. I got my last 3 vehicles there.

I would NEVER buy a car on EBAY or Craigslist unless I was a mechanic...

 

[NRacine]

That's too bad. We had a really good experience at the Subaru dealership in Madison WI. My husband got a brand new WRX for super cheap. And I think the salesman may be related to Chris Farley. It was very amusing!

 

[maplesky7]

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that explains the slippery pants you wore on that tractor....or no, then you would have said, unless you were a farmer....you little peppmermint schtik.

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