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My favorite car-buying story is when I got my '81 Imperial in
2002.
The seller told me on the phone that he was desperate to sell
to pay of his DUII fine and attorney's fee. He'd gotten the car from the
original owner and [fortunately] hadn't driven it much after spending quite a
bit at the original dealer getting it back to top mechanical shape.
I did the usual cashier's check plus extra cash in my
pockets. Told him I had a cashier's check in my pocket made out to him for
X [listed price minus $800] and he said, with very little hesitation, that
he'd take it.
The punchline: he was a new car salesman at the local
Chrysler dealer !!!
--Roger van Hoy, Washougal, WA, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '56
Plymouth, '66 Plymouth, '41 Dodge
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:00
PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] what's your bottom
dollar?
I've had a couple times when looking to buy a car
that I've had to tell the guy (usually at a dealership) that the only way I'd
buy the car is if they give it to me for a couple hundred bucks. It
usually finally tells them to leave you alone...at least about that certain
car.
As for people selling a car and a buyer asks the
"bottomline," it doesn't really surprise me, but I wonder how many people ask
that question and actually expect a straight answer. Maybe they were
never taught the art of negotiating but simply think they need to make one
offer and that will either be a sale or a no sale.
I suppose the best response is to just tell them
to look at the price on the window and if they don't like it they can make an
offer.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 7:36
AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] what's your bottom
dollar?
I know that some people, and that
included me until I was in my 30's, (long time ago) are on the shy
side when dickering with sellers. I was with a friend of mine
when he was dealing on a car and he was afraid to make the offer he thought
he could live with. When the salesman walked out of the room, I asked
if he wanted me to say anything to the sales guy. He asked me.. "How
do you do that, I am almost embarrassed to tell him what I would
pay." I said to him,
" Bob, your wife tells you no all the time, and you live thorugh that.
Just ask, all he can say is no"
John in WI
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 12:30
AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] what's your
bottom dollar?
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