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Any one else recently try to buy a car and got shocked? | |
DeploraVision ™
 User ID: 83265282  United States06/13/2022 09:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Daughter just traded a 17 mustang with some hail damage got 13K, the following week it's listed at 21.9K on their website. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70391341 I paid 21.5k out the door in 17 NEVER trade in. FOR SALE BY OWNER Good advice before the Obiden coup, when the fussy mooch customer was king. Now you're competing with dealers for the FSBO car, and they will snatch it up before you can finish your coffee. I wasted 3 days last year travelling 1000 miles calling dozens of ads for the type of car I was looking for, and the local dealers were buying them within 10 minutes of the ads posting. Long gone are the days of wasting the salesman's time test driving every color, then low balling for hours to try to get a lower price/payment. The dealers will laugh you off the lot unless you are ready to pay full price for cars in stock, (or more), and/or/plus wait weeks for an ordered new car. It's kind of refreshing in a way to see the mooches have to swallow their entitlement attitudes and pony up the $$$, or GTFO  Lol another car salesman...... [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Comments have been disabled. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 81887851 United States06/13/2022 09:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They are also charging you extra if you pay in cash vs financing. I believe they are adding $5,000 to the total if you don't use financing Quoting: Anonymous Coward 82286860 I've seen that before. Dealers usually make more on the financing than the car, so if you don't want financing they're less flexible on the price. Just go for the financing, don't mention cash, then pay the whole car off at the first financing payment. |
| DeploraVision ™
User ID: 83265282 United States06/13/2022 09:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They are also charging you extra if you pay in cash vs financing. I believe they are adding $5,000 to the total if you don't use financing Quoting: Anonymous Coward 82286860 I've seen that before. Dealers usually make more on the financing than the car, so if you don't want financing they're less flexible on the price. Just go for the financing, don't mention cash, then pay the whole car off at the first financing payment. The dealer only makes about $1000 extra point of rate marked up from their cost on the average new vehicle. Comments have been disabled. |
| No holds barred
User ID: 83412272  Mexico06/13/2022 09:49 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I bought a used corolla for two grand, saw it online right now for four grand... yippie! i am selling it now before the price goes down, it's a seller's market! |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 82248180 United States06/13/2022 10:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Drove past a BIG big city Honda Dealership last week. TWO, yep TWO, new cars there. They also had a few used cars. This is a dealership that sold in the hundreds per month range ... and only has TWO in stock. On TV they advertise that they are "Taking Orders" ... |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76630697 United States06/13/2022 10:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 82248180 United States06/13/2022 10:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not all dealers are charging the market adjustment premiums. Check small town dealers Quoting: Anonymous Coward 80542802 Friend this spring bought her daughter a NEW Trailblazer off the National GM Dealership list of vehicles available. Only 3 were available in the entire US via that list. Ended up the dealership, a very reputable small town one, was only 30 miles from where daughter lives but on other side of country from mom, and dealer sold it for LIST plus delivery charge, nothing more added!! (well they did charge sales tax and title transfer fee) Mom wanted to test drive one before closing the deal but in her city of a couple of million there was not a single one at any dealer. Tight tight market now, though it must be loosening up a bit since I am starting to see more inventory on SOME dealership lots (NOT Toyota or Honda though - those are bare as can be) |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 83648224 United States06/13/2022 10:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Back in 2004 I bought a Buick in part for the leather seats. Later, I found the the seats were actually "leather appointed." There were some leather panels, but the seats were covered mostly with plastic. Also, my dad had a Cadillac with leather seats. But eventually, the seats split and cracked. And that was in spite of the car being parked regularly in a garage, not out on the driveway. Leather seats are not necessarily all they are presented as being. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 83648224 United States06/13/2022 10:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They are also charging you extra if you pay in cash vs financing. I believe they are adding $5,000 to the total if you don't use financing Quoting: Anonymous Coward 82286860 I've seen that before. Dealers usually make more on the financing than the car, so if you don't want financing they're less flexible on the price. Just go for the financing, don't mention cash, then pay the whole car off at the first financing payment. I sort of did that with my 2019 Malibu. Wasn't permitted to pay it off early until payment #6. But putting up with six months of monthly payments was still cheaper, overall, than had I paid the full amount up front like I wanted to. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 80991698 United States06/13/2022 10:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 76806476 United States06/14/2022 01:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Love you rich people complaining about car prices. I can only afford sub 4k cars. I work on them myself and old Toyotas can be found for dirt cheap. Sure high mileage but reliable as hell. Parts are plentiful and cheap. Picked up a Scion xa for 2800 and a Previa for 850. 200k and 293k respectively. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75797803 Yup. I purchased a used Camery for $4,000, drove it for close to 300,000 miles. You had a Camry for 300,000 miles and can't spell it? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79869233 United States06/14/2022 01:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You gotta wonder, if we're being lied to about so many things why wouldn't they LIE about these vehicles missing chips when in fact they might not be missing at all....? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76683494 It would be very interesting if someone went in there and had some keys and attempted to start and drive a few of this vehicles, at this point I wouldn't doubt if they were completed but since the companies are interested in money grabs they are just sitting on the inventory to make prices increase from artificial scarcity! If we have the kind of Bidenflation that it looks like we are going to have they are sitting on them until they are 500% higher which could be very soon. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 83650604  Greece06/14/2022 10:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Back in 2004 I bought a Buick in part for the leather seats. Later, I found the the seats were actually "leather appointed." There were some leather panels, but the seats were covered mostly with plastic. Also, my dad had a Cadillac with leather seats. But eventually, the seats split and cracked. And that was in spite of the car being parked regularly in a garage, not out on the driveway. Leather seats are not necessarily all they are presented as being. leather needs take care, especially under the sun like shoes, a good varnish, once a year at least, transparent |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 81887851 United States06/14/2022 01:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I sold my friends 1978 Bronco with 212k miles, rear quarter panels rusting & rust underneath for $8000 Quoting: Ultra MAGA Oaken Paw Unbelievable Not really broncos are pretty hot right now as are 99-04 lightnings and 02 03 harley edition f150's Used Broncos or new ones? I just saw a new 2022 Bronco for the first time the other day. Not bad looking, could grow on me, basically what I thought of the old one too. The new Broncos are hard to get / marked up. |
| Secretizer
(OP) User ID: 74054801 United States06/17/2022 06:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One guy in Washington state went all the way to Vermont to get a new car at MSRP and without waiting for months. [link to www.theguardian.com (secure)] |
