Advising a friend.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

We're cut from the same cloth. I have serious issues with new auto purchases. I got my ass kicked on my first car purchase. Newly married (22), two kids, driving a 75 VW Bug. They had me and they knew it.

Since then, I've read everything I could on the subject and followed that up with actual practice trips into a dealer ( I was 29) so I could learn to look them in the eye and say "Nope, no thanks". Sounds kinda weird but it really worked.
Now I have neices and nephews that ask me to go with them to the dealer, cause I fuck with them all the time. Especially when they use the "I'll need to talk to the GM about this".
My usual answer to that is : "Oh, does he keep the crystal ball in there? May I tag along? I've always wondered where you kept the all the secrets". Or "Oh, you can't make that decision on your own? Next time just take me right to his office, and we'll skip the formalities".

It's fun to bend their minds a bit.

It seems to me like there's a business opportunity for someone to be a professional car negotiator. I'd pay a commission to someone if I could trust them to get me the best price, because I'm pretty sure that I'd save money over negotiating myself, even with the commission included. Buying a car is one of the most unpleasant experiences a person can have outside a Turkish prison.