One thing that I don't think a lot of people realize is that, unless you live in Florida, you can buy the manufacturer's extended warranty from any dealer and you don't normally have to buy it immediately to get the new car rates. For my Chevy pickup, I had until 12 months or 12,000 miles and on our CR-V we had 6 months, 6000 miles to get the warranty at new car rates.

When we bought our CR-V last January, the dealer was pushing hard for us to buy a 7year/100,000 mile warranty that we had to buy right now or we wouldn't get it at the special price of $2100 (or $1800 if we had a Costco card). We managed to resist :rolleyes: and I later found I could get the same HondaCare warranty for $1095 from a number of different dealers online.

I have only bought one brand new vehicle before, but it happened everyplace I went on that shopping cycle. It seems like the worst places of all for pressure and shadiness were the domestic car mega-dealerships. Most of the places I went, I hadn't even been talking to the salesperson on the lot for 1 minute before they tried to condition me as a payment buyer. I wasn't familiar with the scam at that time, but I could tell that when I said I didn't like the interest rate they would just come back with a lower rate but the money taken back on another part of the deal.

I was about to start looking for a car soon, not looking forward to it. I got some financing online this time just to avoid playing the payment/term/interest rate shell game. I think it will be helpful to have another offer sheet with me to beat up on their offer with.

There are online warranty companies who sell them at much less than they cost at a dealer. I have one on my current car that was not too expensive, and you don't even have to take it to a dealer to get work done, you can take it anywhere.

That's true, though I would personally never get an extended warranty that wasn't backed by the manufacturer. Most of the other types have had horrible problems with not paying or going out of business, leaving the customers with a useless warranty. You see tons of horror stories over at the edmunds.com forums (now carspace.com).

Actually, I don't buy extended warrantys at all. Just sayin'. :)

In today’s world, you can get it down to the dime if you know what you are doing. My brother just bought a new Super Duty on-line from a dealer. You don't even have to set foot into a dealership to get your best deal. Figure out what you want, make them shoot you their best deal via email. Make sure they know that you will be checking several dealers as well. It keeps them honest on price. Sooner or latter you will get a hungry dealer that is wanting to blow out a piece of inventory and you will get the good guy deal.

Long hours, working weekends, bending people over and celebrating afterwards, outright lying to someones face. cons

Good money, meeting lots of people and getting laid a lot out of it. pros

OK ROFL .




CASHMAN.

Seeing as how only incredibly dumb people actually talk to car salesmen nowadays, you should be able to make money at it.

I must be the worst dressed Sales Manager in the business!




NO ONE should trust a car salesman. Trust means you believe him or you believe that you have a good deal. You shouldn't "believe". Do research and KNOW!!!

Belief is more of YOUR line of work! ;)

Or, you could be a dipshit loser IT guy and soon to be looking for a job....like Saul. I have been gainfully employed in car sales for 18 years without fear of losing income, Saul can not say the same.

So what dealer do you work at again?

Your and idiot. Truth and logic are the good car salesmans best friend.

And how do you smart individuals handle a car buying transaction?

And then you slide your atm card thru your keyboard and viola, your nee vehicle mysteriously appears in your driveway? :rolleyes:

Eventually, you have to go to the dealer to handle the transaction.

Yea you go to the dealer alright...to watch them hand you the keys while their secretly pissed off.