Truth? Hard to find, I agree, but let me put it another way - something
reasonable and believable. The real problem comes about when a certain fact
may be obvious to me and most others, and a salesman tries to tell me a
bunch of obvious bulls**t - now that makes me damned mad - goodbye,
salesman.
I've had private sellers try to hand me obvious crap, too. For example, I
was getting down on my knees to look at tires on a '91 or '92 124 near
York, SC, several years ago; seller says, "All new tires." I could already
see that tires were well-worn and no two alike. Same guy tried to tell me
stealer had replaced IP, which I had mentioned was leaking. Seller showed
me recent "receipt" to "prove" that IP had been replaced - what MB tech had
written on receipt was, "Recommend replacing leaking IP $1100."
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Snook" <dsn...@mtsqh.com>
To: <Mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Carmax
Curt wrote: " But now find the same car in the same condition for book. Oh
and find it at a dealer out of your state and have it shipped in... To
compare you MUST compare like to like."
The one my friend ended up buying was better than the one at Carmax AND it
was local and no additional shipping.
AND Wilton wrote:
"I hate the BS involved in trying to get the truth out of a stealership or
used car salesman."
THE TRUTH? Forget finding that out. :) Seriously, just make the best
deal you can. You can ALWAYS WALK AWAY. The only trick I learned from
working 3 years at the dealership and in representing dealerships for the
last 8 years is that you don't care what the price is AND you don't care
what the trade in value is. The only thing you should be worried about is
the difference between the two. If you want the bottom dollar on the
car, then they are going to give you squat on the trade in. If you want a
high trade in value, then the price of the car is going to be high. As
long as you know how much the difference is, then the rest of the numbers
are all non-sense. Don't get caught up in those numbers, because the
dealer is better at playing that game than you are.
For example, we traded in my wife's 2001 Expedition on a Dodge Charger.
First, she wanted a 2008 Dodge with 35,000 miles, but the numbers didn't
work because she kept focusing on the trade in value. So, I said, listen
I don't care what the price is or the trade in is, I am willing to give
you $7500 difference (or some other number around there I can't remember
the specifics) between the two. After figuring out that they just had
too much money in the red 2008 charger to do that, we ended up buying a
2010 Charger with less miles and with the engine she wanted. I didn't
care how much they had it priced at. Because on the red charger they
showed us they were giving us $3500 on the trade and on the 2010, they
showed us they were giving us $6000. The reality was that they bought the
2010 for less money than they had in the 2008. Even though the asking
price for the 2010 was $3000 more than the 2008, we actually got a better
deal on the newer lower mileage car.
Donald H. Snook
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