florajasmine:

superdoofus-stratodrive:

florajasmine:

is annoying.

i’m trying not to spend a billion dollars. i’m just trying to find a non-jalopy to drive north and tool around in for a while. this is a taxing ordeal, for which i have little patience/attention/heat tolerance.

i used to want a really nice car but now i don’t really care that much. i just need to get from point a to point b and know that if a truck hits me somewhere in between, i won’t die or break my face. i’d also like to pay as little as possible because i have these things called a mortgage payment, a shoe habit and a gadget fetish that already drain my funds on a monthly basis.

tomorrow i might just hand over a stack of bills and take whatever they give me.

are you kidding me?!
it’s a buyer’s market out there right now. they’re ACHING to make commissions and will knock THOUSANDS off just to get the check and the notch in their sales/month ledger on the manager’s desk.
if you “just hand over a stack of bills” they’ll take you for a mark and fleece you for sticker price commission when you could have demanded a huge reduction on a MUCH better vehicle.
here’s my advice:
1: take how much you want your monthly payment to be and sink that number and your terms into fucking cement.
2: pick a vehicle that is priced 30% above what your dollar amount is.
3: spend over one hour sitting in their shitty little cubicle saying “no. i want it for $X”
3.5: repeat as many times as your salesperson says “i’m gonna have to run this by so-and-so” (seriously, be a hard-ass about this)
4: wait another half hour
5: pay the poor schlub
6: ???
7: PROFIT!!!

i know. it’s just the whole wash/rinse/repeat method i’m just soooo not into. i’m spoiled. i like shopping online. “click to buy”- that’d be car shopping i’d be more into.

my old man (who owned hardware stores for many, many years) used to say “a ‘good deal’ is when both parties come out happy.”

but these are CAR SALESMEN you’re dealing with. i know that in light of the actions of wall street and bank accountants lately, that doesn’t sound so bad. but let me reiterate:

YOU’RE DEALING WITH CAR SALESMEN. always be shrewder than they are, else you walk out without even getting a kiss*

*from the extended phrase (ca. 1950’s) “whelp, i just got fucked. and i didn’t even get a kiss.” see also: “they got me by the short and curlys.”