Posted on 02/11/2022 11:52:19 AM PST by Red Badger
If you can pay cash, negotiation takes on a whole new character.
I actually had a little fun buying from a dealer last year, using “Lundegaard” as a verb, as in “I don’t have time to sit around waiting while you Lundegaard me.”
This article made me curious, so I just checked.
I have a 2017 F-250 Super Duty 4x4 with a flex fuel V8. It’s a stripped down commercial package. I only use if for farm related work, and it only has 11k miles on it.
Paid $35k for it brand new off the lot in 2018.
Bluebook for private sale is $50k.
Unbelievable.
Hondas are really good cars and hold their value well. But anyone willing to pay $20K for a 7 year old Fit needs to seek psychiatric help.
One of our neighbors in NM had a 77 Bronco, and even 20 years ago people were always trying to buy it from them.
Now I have that happening to me when I go out in my 95 F350 CCLB with the fuel economy special: the 460 V8.
Go out and check the used car lots prices. They are CRAZY!............
Brother, anything like that is a magnet. 5 miles to the gallon, be damned
It isn’t just cars. We bought a house in 2015 for $221,000. We sold it last month for $385,000. We bought a new house with land and still pocketed $60,000 after putting 20% down.
Yeah, but where I’m at, for $4K more you can get a brand new Civic. And yes, they have them in stock.
My dad has a 98 or 99 Dodge longbed diesel and at least once he was offered a blank check for it.
He still has it.
I’d love it except it’s a longbed.
I guess so!
I picked it up last spring before the car market totally blew up.
Put that on eBay motors and see what you’d get for it.
Add that seller has the right to refuse at any time.
Tell your nephew not to feel too bad.....I feel that way every time I walk out of one of those clip joints after a purchase.
“If you can pay cash, negotiation takes on a whole new character”
Yeah there was a time for that, not so much now I don’t think......especially right now. At least not where I’m at.
Nope, we always bought our cars with cash, this time around, no negotiating.
I curse the day they came up with “No Haggle Pricing”.
I think we bought at just the right time. Our car is valued on KBB at several thou more than we paid for it last July 2. And at our age, we may never have to buy another vehicle. So we’re done with car dealers.
“I curse the day they came up with “No Haggle Pricing”
Isn’t online car buying e.g. carvana and Zoom like that? The price is what it is?
smells like team spirit...
I want to hang on to it for a bit. The 460 is a great performance platform, and I want to have a little fun (fun, as in stroker kits, cams, etc.).
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